The British Medical Association says 95% of members voted in favour of the proposed pay offer.

The Communities Minister has revealed no pensioners in Northern Ireland have yet received a one-off £100 fuel payment - with an MLA branding the news "utter madness."

The UK Government is working hard to meet requests for assistance from the devolved Stormont Executive for support in the wake of Storm Eowyn, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Damage could be seen in Belfast in Northern Ireland on Friday as a major storm continued to lash Ireland and Scotland with hurricane-force winds.

Ireland has called in help from England and France to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people after the most disruptive storm for years.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home.

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) has launched its latest tenant perception survey. The Continuous Tenant Omnibus Survey (CTOS) is the main way the landlord collects information about what their tenants think about their tenancy, their home, the service they receive and the neighbourhood they live in.

The 766 instances of critical distress reported in Northern Ireland represented a 3.9% rise in the province compared with the same period the previous year, bucking the trend of the UK-wide average wh

More than 100,000 remain without power in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn. Additional engineers have been brought to the region from Great Britain to help NIE Networks with the task of restoring power.

Resident doctors in Northern Ireland have voted in favour of a pay offer from the Department of Health (DoH). In a referendum that closed this week, 94.3% of resident doctors voted to accept the pay offer.

Ed Sheeran visited Northern Ireland where he is supporting music organizations through his newly-launched Ed Sheeran Foundation.