Arlene Foster has told internal opponents that she will not be walking away from the DUP leadership after a series of criticisms of the party emerged at an unusually forthright meeting of the DUP executive in Omagh last week.

In the latest essay in our series, the former assistant chief constable CHRIS ALBISTON asks if the Human Rights Commission sought to compel people to speak when the terrorist campaigns were in full flight? (see beneath the article for a link to the rest of the series):

Two teenagers have been stabbed during what has been described as ‘a night of disturbances’ in the Ballyoran area of Portadown.

World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea swept his rivals aside to win the first ever race at the Argentinean round of the championship in dominant fashion on Saturday.

Glenn Irwin clinched his first Bennetts British Superbike victory of the season with a dominant ride in race one at Brands Hatch on Saturday.

Young Northern Ireland motorcycling prospect Eunan McGlinchey has won the British Junior Supersport title at Brands Hatch.