It was all going so well wasn’t it? The power-sharing executive had not only succeeded in running the full term but also being re-elected with a strengthened mandate. So encouraging was the environment that it left room for old enemies to embrace as Martin McGuinness met Queen Elizabeth in June 2012 and Peter Robinson made major speeches arguing for a closer relationship with the Irish government along with seeking to encourage Catholics to vote for his Democratic Unionist Party. The Northern Ireland problem it appeared had been solved for good.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has urged loyalists to back the Good Friday agreement after another night of violence in East Belfast.

Police in the North have again come under attack from loyalist protesters after a Union flag demonstration turned ugly.

According to the Confederation of British Industry, weeks of the union flag protests in the capital Belfast have cost businesses up to $24 million. 

Ulster Loyalists have abandoned plans to bring their flag protest to Dublin on Saturday – because their march clashes with a rugby match and a rock concert.

Protests in Belfast regarding the new rule on limiting the flying of the Union Jack over Belfast’s City Hall incited a sixth night of violence in East Belfast on Tuesday. The flag, however, was raised for the first time this year on Wednesday to honor the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s 31st birthday. 

A protestor has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired on the latest night of flag protests in Belfast.

Loyalist organizer Willie Frazer has said that he has organized a protest at Leinster House in Dublin for this Saturday. The protest is part of the ongoing demonstrations in and around Belfast regarding the limitation of the flying of the Union Jack over Belfast’s City Hall.

Envelopes containing bullets were mailed to assembly members of political parties Sinn Fein and the Alliance Party at Stormont, Northern Ireland’s legislative assembly. The threats are the latest development in a string of loyalist street violence since Stormont’s vote to decrease the number of days they would fly the Union Jack.

Abraham Lincoln once kissed the Irish flag according to an officer present when the president visited George McClellan’s army at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia during the Civil War.

Police in Belfast have described a petrol bomb attack on a patrol car as ‘attempted murder’ as violent protests over the Union flag continue across Northern Ireland.

Three teens were arrested in Belfast in conjunction with protests that have stemmed from the government’s recent decision to limit the flying of the Union flag over city hall from 365 days annually to just 17.

Police in Belfast are on high alert after loyalists burned two Irish tricolours at a mass Union Flag protest in the city center.

The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the street violence and intimidation seen across Northern Ireland this week, sparked by a dispute over the flying of the Union flag over Belfast’s City Hall.

Ireland has made another claim on the Island of Rockall – claimed by Britain, Denmark and Iceland.