Several thousand Protestant Orange Order members marched through a Northern Irish town Saturday ahead of a ruling on a legal challenge to the UK government's ban on a separate parade

DUP Leader Gavin Robinson has told party members that collapsing the Northern Ireland Assembly would likely strengthen Sinn Féin.

DUP MP Carla Lockhart has resigned as a party officer amid a deepening row with party leadership over the future of Stormont.

The UK Met Office said Storm Boelo will bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England at the weekend.

Police are investigating an allegation that former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman in the Houses of Parliament in the UK, according to sources.