Officials will try to work out ways of avoiding more controversies involving Northern Ireland.

The chief medical officer says the public should have a high confidence in Covid-19 vaccines.

People crossing the Irish border without "a reasonable excuse" can be fined €100 (£88) from Monday.

It is 50 years since five men aged died when an IRA landmine exploded on Brougher Mountain.

Michael Gove says post-Brexit trade rules between Britain and Northern Ireland are not working.

More than £2m has been awarded to organisations across Northern Ireland affected by the pandemic.

Gregory Campbell says he opposes racism after criticising the number of black people on the show.

Andrew Pack, a senior executive at Kingspan, gives evidence at a public inquiry into Grenfell Tower.

Sinn Féin accuses the DUP of allowing the threat narrative around checks at Larne port to continue.

The charges relate to graffiti found on walls, shops, houses, a billboard and a road sign in Larne.

The firm warns it will have to make redundancies because of checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea.

Police had been granted extra time to question the men about the north Belfast murder last week.

An award-winning County Tyrone chef has been cooking for some of those most affected by lockdown.

Hundreds of people are taking part in a study of how our bodies are equipped to fight the infection.

After enduring the worst month of the pandemic to date, there appears to be much cause for optimism.

BBC News NI's Jayne McCormack answers readers' questions about how lockdown will affect you.

Part-time students, non-EU students and NI students studying elsewhere in the UK are not eligible.

More than 275,000 people have now had their first dose in Northern Ireland.

The R-number in the community is now sitting between 0.75 and 0.85, Arlene Foster says

A timeline of Simon Byrne's 21 months in charge of the PSNI highlights a number of controversies.

The weather forecast in Northern Ireland.

The NI Protocol problems, which have been in sharp focus this week, were predicted by civil servants.

With no matches to play, school teams show their spirit as they take to pounding the roads instead.

Used by generations of fishermen and exporters, Annalong Harbour's pier is in need of restoration.

NI residents face fines if they are caught crossing the border without "a reasonable excuse".

DUP MP Gregory Campbell says he will not apologise after being accused of "race-baiting".

The PSNI Chief Constable is set for talks with political parties and says he will not quit.

Simon Byrne apologises for officers' actions at an event to commemorate victims of a 1992 attack.

Police are clamping down on unnecessary cross-border travel between NI and the Republic of Ireland.

Bishop of Derry says community wants to move beyond "assumption that violence solves anything".

A man in his 30s and another man in his 40s were injured in the shooting in Rinmore Drive.

Funding provisions for such a facility were outlined in the deal that restored NI devolution last year.

Gardaí are investigating whether a couple found at a house may have died as a result of accidental poisoning.

The body of 72-year-old Mary O'Keefe was recovered from a burnt-out car in Cork on Thursday.

A Trinity College immunologist says AstraZeneca vaccine data is too limited for it to be used on over 70s.

A man in his 60s is detained on suspicion of unlawful killing after the death of a Cork pensioner.

Ian Wright says he is "disappointed" after a teenager who sent the former England striker racist abuse was not given a criminal conviction.