The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project was set up in the 1980s to research the meanings of local place names.

Minister Lyons said that the issue did not reach his desk and that he had never taken a decision on the Placenames Project ...

Sinn Fein and the DUP are embroiled in a fresh row over the Irish language amid recriminations over who is responsible for funding a scheme on the origins and meanings of local place names.

The party have demanded that Communities Minister Gordon Lyons be hauled before the Assembly as the row intensifes ...