Former DUP Minister Jonathan Bell prays before a BBC interview about the RHI scandal. (December 2016)

Former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt is pictured lying face-down in the lobby of the Stormont Hotel. He said the incident was "just banter and play-acting". (May 2017)

SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie accidentally calls her party "the SDL Poo". (April 2010)

Hillary Clinton's senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal sends her an email calling UUP leader Reg Empey "Empey Dumpty". (March 2010)

Ian Paisley and Jeffrey Donaldson are among unionist politicians carried out of Stormont by RUC officers after they refused to leave following the dissolution of the NI Assembly. (June 1986)

SDLP councillor and landlord Declan Boyle receives a letter from a PSNI Superintendent he met at a birthday party saying he doesn't have to declare his property interests. (July 2014) In 2022, Boyle was censured by the NI Local Government Commissioner for Standards.

Photographs emerge of Alliance Party MLA Paula Bradshaw dressed up as Mr T at a 2010 house party. (September 2020)

Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly clings to the bonnet of a moving PSNI Land Rover. (June 2013)