Next government must prepare for Irish unity, Jim O’Callaghan tells Belfast conferenceMinister for Justice emphasises support for Taoiseach’s Shared Island project which will see €2bn spent on cross-Border co-operationThu Jun 25 2026 - 16:14
‘Celtic’ parliaments should face London together, says Welsh first minister Rhun ap Iorwerth said Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland shared ‘core asks’ for ‘equality of treatment’Wed Jun 24 2026 - 21:05
No ‘halfway house’ for UK with European Union, says former top diplomat Exiting damaged economy and tax revenues, says Ivan RogersTue Jun 23 2026 - 23:16
Funding to cut train Dublin-Belfast journey time to under two hoursTrack upgrade north of Malahide and at Clongriffin, electrification of 37km of network from Malahide to Drogheda plannedMon Jun 22 2026 - 06:00
Journalist John Ware on the Troubles: ‘The conflict is still being slugged out’The veteran broadcaster on revealing a 40-year-old ‘secret’ and the necessity of moral compromise in the Northern Ireland conflictSat Jun 20 2026 - 06:00
Why has Simon Harris changed his tune on a united Ireland?Analysis: The speed of the Fine Gael leader’s shift in attitude has taken even his own party by surpriseFri Jun 19 2026 - 06:00
Death at the bridge: The Troubles murder of Terence McKeever, 40 years onThe newly wed businessman was killed by the IRA, but key evidence has since gone missing on both sides of BorderTue Jun 16 2026 - 06:00
Fine Gael’s blueprint for Irish unity will not be about ‘sloganeering’, Tánaiste saysEvery party in Dáil favours a united Ireland and subject is not owned by Sinn Féin, says Simon HarrisMon Jun 15 2026 - 15:46
Brexit, 10 years on: ‘There was surprise at just how lackadaisical the British seemed’The UK’s departure from the EU has not caused the chaos once feared, but changes in British politics could bring fresh challenges for IrelandSun Jun 14 2026 - 06:00
Cross-Border awards for businesses building North-South links return for second year Prize open to those building commercial links between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Fri May 29 2026 - 05:45
Number of Catholics in PSNI has stalled and likely to fall further, MPs sayThreat from dissident Republicans blamed, with officers unable to tell family or friends about jobWed May 27 2026 - 00:01
‘We got it in neck over price-gouging’: Iran war another woe for Border filling stationsTaxes, competition from North, higher costs and red tape are pushing sector to the brinkMon May 04 2026 - 06:00
Six years after War of Independence centenary row, Royal Irish Constabulary memorial unveiledPlan for monument stalled in Republic after backlash, but one now stands at Newtownards, Co DownMon Apr 27 2026 - 06:00
Welsh and Scottish elections in May could energise Irish unity debate, says Sinn FéinLeaders of Plaid Cymru and SNP join chat with SF delegates in Belfast hosted by Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’NeillSat Apr 25 2026 - 20:00
Jim McDowell, praised as one of bravest reporters of The Troubles, dies aged 76 Journalist waged decades-long campaign for justice for slain colleague Martin O’Hagan who was murdered by Loyalist Volunteer ForceFri Apr 24 2026 - 22:23
‘The Irish were an underclass, 50% poorer than the English’: New exhibition comes to Epic museum‘The Irish were the raw material for the Industrial Revolution in England,’ says exhibition curator Christopher KissaneWed Apr 22 2026 - 06:01
The changing Ancient Order of Hibernians: ‘Irish America has moved past nostalgia in unity debate’Ancient Order of Hibernians deeply invested in Ireland, but its attitudes have changed with the timesTue Apr 21 2026 - 06:00
‘Unrealistic expectations’ from parents fuelling teacher burnout, study findsAlmost half of teachers surveyed in North said they would consider quittingTue Apr 21 2026 - 00:01
Irish unity must let Protestants stay British if they want, says GAA president‘The Orange Order is as important to Unionists as the GAA is to those in the nationalist community’Fri Apr 17 2026 - 07:17
Legal challenge to inquest into IRA man killed in SAS ambush is rejectedTony Doris had planned to kill former Ulster Defence Regiment soldierThu Apr 16 2026 - 21:42
Formal inquiry ordered into Northern Ireland Troubles legacy investigative bodyIndependent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery has faced multiple issues since inceptionWed Apr 15 2026 - 19:42
Trump accused of ‘sacrilege’ over Jesus image by influential Irish-American organisationAncient Order of Hibernians says US president’s criticism of Pope Leo and AI-generated image has ‘deeply offended’ CatholicsTue Apr 14 2026 - 10:03
Gardaí sacrificed IRA informer to protect a more useful one, ex-Special Branch officer claims Murder victim John Corcoran’s fate was sealed by a ‘vacuum of silence and inaction by Garda officers of the highest rank’, JP O’Sullivan saysSat Mar 28 2026 - 08:28
Martin McGuinness was blessed with likeability, even by those who wished him deadJim McVeigh writes the apologia for Martin McGuinness’s life, while Sinn Féin figure Danny Morrison revises and updates his memoirSat Mar 28 2026 - 04:40
UK defence of Ireland of less concern to public than thought, conference told British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly hears strong case for European democracies to work more closely togetherTue Mar 24 2026 - 19:54
Shared Ireland programme cannot be used to push cause of Irish unity, Jack Chambers saysBritish-Irish Parliamentary Assembly meeting taking place in Tralee, Co KerryTue Mar 24 2026 - 06:00
Upgrade of A5 road linking Derry and Tyrone being blocked by ‘vexatious’ complaintsMinister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers says route is ‘probably the most critical North-South road project’Mon Mar 23 2026 - 17:18
Fuel costs support will be temporary and quickly withdrawn, Minister saysJack Chambers warns Middle East conflict could have ‘biggest impact on the global economy for decades’Mon Mar 23 2026 - 12:51
‘There’s a bit of romanticisation about the Troubles’: Student views on Irish unityUCD politics students say northerners and southerners have much to learn about each other before any thought of unificationMon Mar 23 2026 - 08:00
Sudden end to Gerry Adams trial could deter others from pursuing claimsLondon case discontinued after possibility was raised of claimants facing six-figure legal billSat Mar 21 2026 - 06:00
Concern over legal costs brings Gerry Adams’s eight-day London high court odyssey to endFormer Sinn Féin leader leaves with win and a legal bill that, had case gone the other way, could have seen him facing huge claimsFri Mar 20 2026 - 19:00
Judge made ‘extraordinary’ interventions in Gerry Adams civil case, accusers’ lawyers say‘This outcome is not of the claimants’ making’, says McCue Jury solicitors, after action by three bombing survivors droppedFri Mar 20 2026 - 16:50
Gerry Adams welcomes decision by three victims of IRA bombings to drop civil action against himJudge had asked plaintiffs why the case against Adams should not be dropped on two grounds Fri Mar 20 2026 - 13:04
Legal case against Gerry Adams should not be thrown out, says lawyerThree victims of IRA bombs in England are taking civil case against former Sinn Féin leader, seeking damages of £1Thu Mar 19 2026 - 19:00
Gerry Adams recalls ‘very bad history’ of British rule as London civil case nears end ‘I came here to reject the accusations levelled against me’, former Sinn Féin leader saysThu Mar 19 2026 - 16:21
Adams denies authorship of column claiming he was ‘rightly or wrongly’ IRA volunteerFormer Sinn Féin leader says he was not ‘Brownie’, pen name of An Phoblacht article written in Long Kesh prison Wed Mar 18 2026 - 20:31
Judgment in Gerry Adams case will take some time but there was no new ‘smoking gun’ Former Sinn Féin leader spent two days in the witness box of a London court rejecting claims he was in the IRA Wed Mar 18 2026 - 20:07
‘I was stunned by what had happened’: Adams repeatedly denies claims he was a leading IRA memberFormer Sinn Féin president is being sued for ‘vindicatory’ damages of £1 in connection to IRA bombings in EnglandWed Mar 18 2026 - 19:48
Gerry Adams says he aided Irish unification cause but was never a member of the IRAThree victims of IRA bombs in 1973 and 1996 have taken a civil action against the former Sinn Féin presidentWed Mar 18 2026 - 06:00
The Liverpudlian at the heart of the Irish economyJohn Kelly’s grandfather departed Dublin for the city on the Mersey in the 1930s, his grandson now heads up Suir Engineering, with 1,600 employees, in the country he leftWed Mar 18 2026 - 06:00
Hours of jousting at court as Gerry Adams insists he was never IRA member Max Hill sought to present Adams’ history as one of an endless series of contradictions, Adams in turn needled Hill frequentlyTue Mar 17 2026 - 19:52
Gerry Adams ‘pushed’ IRA into attacks in England, UK court toldFormer Sinn Féin president is being sued for ‘vindicatory’ damages of £1 in connection to IRA bombingsTue Mar 17 2026 - 19:38
Voice from the grave fills courtroom at Gerry Adams civil action in LondonFormer IRA member Dolours Price relates in recording how IRA intended to bomb London in early 1970sMon Mar 16 2026 - 19:16
IRA members ‘astonished’ at Gerry Adams’s ‘brazen’ denial of role in organisationCharge made by veteran journalist John Ware on fifth day of civil action against former Sinn Féin leaderMon Mar 16 2026 - 17:56
Gerry Adams prepares to take the stand in LondonMark Hennessy, Irish Times Ireland and Britain Editor, reports from London, where Gerry Adams is facing a civil suit by IRA bomb victims. Video: Mark HennessySun Mar 15 2026 - 12:36
Son of slain prison officer claims in court Sinn Féin’s Pat Doherty sanctioned 1983 shooting Brian Stack was chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison and shot in the head by members of Provisional IRAThu Mar 12 2026 - 18:17
Gerry Adams was leader of IRA until mid-2000s, former senior PSNI officer tells courtBarrister for former Sinn Féin president criticised for raising policeman’s 1991 shooting of Catholic youthThu Mar 12 2026 - 18:03
Can the Anglo-Irish honeymoon of Keir Starmer’s premiership last after his departure? Prime minister has transformed British-Irish relations during his time in Downing Street – can they thrive after he is gone?Thu Mar 12 2026 - 02:00
Troubles seem so far away at times as Gerry Adams civil case continuesFormer IRA man Shane Paul O’Doherty tells London court that former Sinn Féin leader has ‘last-man-standing syndrome’Wed Mar 11 2026 - 20:39
Significance of role played by Gerry Adams in IRA became clear only after 1973 arrest, court hearsAdams was among group arrested with former IRA leader Brendan Hughes at Belfast house, retired officer tells London civil action against former Sinn Féin leaderWed Mar 11 2026 - 16:22
