Topic: Sinn Fein

Activists and police clashed in Northern Ireland for the seventh straight night late Thursday and early Friday, with security forces resorting to a water cannon to quell demonstrations.

Northern Ireland officials are expected to meet Thursday after the sixth straight night of violence between unionists and nationalists, during which rioters torched a bus and attacked police in Belfast.

The Irish Parliament elected veteran opposition leader Michael Martin as the country's new prime minister Saturday.

The British Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned convictions for politician Gerry Adams, ruling that his imprisonment in Northern Ireland in the 1970s was unlawful.

Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party, said she will seek to form a coalition government after taking an apparent lead in the country's elections.

The job of Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar appeared in jeopardy as polls indicated his Fine Gael party was slumping and nationalists Sinn Fein were surging ahead of Saturday's national election.

A last-ditch effort by the Democratic Unionist Party to block British government reforms on same-sex marriage and abortion failed Monday, allowing both to become legal in Northern Ireland for the first time on Tuesday.

Members of parliament voted Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.

Talks on Northern Ireland's power-sharing government will begin on May 7, the British and Irish prime ministers announced Friday.

Northern Ireland police said Thursday that a woman was killed during a "terrorist incident" as shots rang out and gas bombs exploded in Londonderry.