Belfast City Council spent £20,000 on new security measures in response to a portrait of a former lord mayor being vandalised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three candidates to contest Irish presidential election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police used journalists' phone data to detect leaks by staff, report says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSNI to publish review into journalists' phone surveillance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MLAs clash over the definition of Troubles victim www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RHI: Fresh plans to close 'cash for ash' scheme announced www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sinn Féin backs independent TD Catherine Connolly for Irish president www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Opponents prosper' with divided unionism, DUP leader Gavin Robinson will tell his party's annual conference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ireland commits to co-operate with new Troubles legacy body, under new framework set to be unveiled by the UK and Irish governments www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long-delayed plans to pedestrianise Hill Street in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter will proceed later this year, Stormont's infrastructure minister has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK and Irish governments to publish Troubles legacy framework www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stormont assembly speaker Edwin Poots says he fears the current political climate in Great Britain "could turn ugly" and lead to someone getting hurt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First Minister Michelle O'Neill is making a "mistake" by boycotting a state banquet for US President Donald Trump, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Northern Ireland Assembly's new standards commissioner has stepped down a week after being appointed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Education Minister Paul Givan has clashed with Stormont's opposition over claims AI was used to write an assembly speech. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some Belfast Trust staff are "not fully engaging" with a review into the city's long-delayed maternity hospital, Stormont's health minister has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Joanne Bunting is to replace Pam Cameron as Junior Minister in the Stormont executive, the DUP has confirmed. Peter Martin will chair the Infrastructure committee while Deborah Erskine is on maternity leave, and Paul Frew will succeed Ms Bunting as Justice committee chair.

MI5 has admitted that it illegally obtained communications data from the mobile phone of former BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ministers challenged over 'unedifying bickering' between Stormont parties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Research on LGBT pupils removed from Stormont's education department website www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DUP leader hits out at Michelle O'Neill after Army jobs fair row www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald rules herself out of Irish presidential race - but doesn't rule out First Minister Michelle O'Neill as a potential candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As the Stormont assembly resumes business after its summer recess, here's five big challenges to keep an eye on this autumn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Irish presidential election hopeful Catherine Connolly has said she would use her voice "in every way possible" for a united Ireland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage criticised for Good Friday Agreement proposal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The first and deputy first ministers have approved fewer than half of requests to visit the former Maze prison site since Stormont was restored, as a 12-year political stalemate over its redevelopment continues. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Northern Ireland public appointments commissioner named after four-year vacancy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Civil servants in Northern Ireland are being told to work at least two days a week in the office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SDLP MP Colum Eastwood speaks to BBC's Red Lines, from turning down a knighthood to his relationship with former shadow NI secretary Louise Haigh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Family of IRA victim call Féile tribute 'sick' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chancellor to meet NI ministers on first official visit to Belfast www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time capsule reveals Martin McGuinness and Bertie Ahern's hopes for the future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The DUP has moved to defend Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly over a publicly funded trip with her husband to Wimbledon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MP Sorcha Eastwood rules herself out of succeeding Naomi Long in a future Alliance leadership race www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enoch Burke's family confront at church the DUP councillor and Education Authority chair Mervyn Storey over transgender issues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has defended his decision to allocate more than £800,000 to gender identity services in Northern Ireland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK government has denied reallocating £1m of funding from a north-south peace project to a new scheme aimed at strengthening east-west connections. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why has the UUP turned to another man in uniform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sinn Féin MP 'never felt like a second-class citizen' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former senior PSNI officer to become UUP MLA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Troubles investigation group makes first witness appeal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sinn Féin leadership to meet later to work out the party's plan for the Irish presidential election. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An investigation is taking place into the replacement of Stormont's Department of Education permanent secretary. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service was warned it would be "open to the charge of acting politically" by taking part in this year's Belfast Pride parade, internal emails reveal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost a quarter of parents would prefer their child was not educated in an integrated school, according to a Stormont survey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plans to lower the voting age to 16 are "unlikely" to be in place in time for the next Northern Ireland Assembly election in 2027, the Electoral Commission has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly says she's "deeply saddened" by the cancellation of a cross-community sports summer camp in Comber following opposition to the involvement of children from a GAA club. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSNI bodycam footage has been released showing the moment guns and ammunition were found in loyalist Winston Irvine's car. While police elsewhere routinely release such footage after court cases, BBC Spotlight had to make a court request to obtain it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is Northern Ireland the economic 'basket case' that TV presenter Richard Madeley suggests it is? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Prime Minister says Labour's replacement for the Troubles Legacy Act will protect military veterans "from unjustified persecution". Sir Keir Starmer says it will also give victims "the confidence that they need in the process". #PMQs response to SDLP MP Colum Eastwood 👇