The UK aims to keep up pressure on the EU with documents setting out what it wants from Brexit talks.
Michelle O'Neill says power-sharing negotiations should restart but DUP calls proposal a "stunt".
The famous clock's Great Bell is to be silenced until 2021 to allow repairs to be completed.
Two-thirds of Scottish votes were wasted in June as they had no impact on the result, a study says.
Lord Hain claims taking UK out of the ECJ could result in NI losing millions of pounds of peace funding.
Removing all trade tariffs would be "economically superior", pro-Brexit economists argue.
Campaigners say allowing assembly members to job-share would attract women and disabled people to Welsh politics.