The Latest Breaking News from Sinn Féin

Compare the priorities of the five major parties - Alliance, SDLP, UUP, DUP and Sinn Fein - at the NI election

With ultra-guarded, disciplined election strategy, party is cautiously edging towards potentially momentous win

Young voters in Enniskillen show dismay at Sinn Féin and the DUP in run-up to this week’s elections

The party is fighting a tough local election map, but could still benefit from symbolic triumphs in high-profile Tory strongholds

Twenty years after the Victoria Climbié report, our social services are still bedevilled by poor practice

It's understandable that few voters actually read election manifestos

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said people want the Stormont institutions to work - but they need to be reformed

Party leaders on both sides of the political divide in Northern Ireland agree that the Stormont assembly election on May 5 could be the most important in a generation. Polls continue to suggest that Sinn Féin will become the largest party for the first time in Northern Ireland’s 101-year history…

The French election showed how electoral systems shape politics. In the UK, abandoning first past the post could be transformative, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle