Britain’s next PM should not ignore British-Irish Council meetings, say leadersIrish, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders urge Downing Street to engage at twice-annual forumFri Jun 21 2024 - 19:11
Justice system puts ‘victim on trial’, says woman beaten unconscious by soldierThere is ‘far too much violence against women in our country’, says Taoiseach as he praises Natasha O’Brien for ‘speaking out’Fri Jun 21 2024 - 19:09
British-Irish Council to meet on the Isle of Man without key figuresBritish prime minister and Northern Ireland’s First Minister will not be in attendanceThu Jun 20 2024 - 20:02
Reconciliation and reunification should be pursued in parallel, conference told Leo Varadkar, Mary Lou McDonald and former UDA member David Adams among speakers at Ireland’s Future conference in BelfastSun Jun 16 2024 - 20:46
David Puttnam: ‘The Irish invented immigration and went through every single form of the immigrant experience’Partly because the film-maker and former peer so often praises Ireland, and partly because he is genuinely likable, the West Cork resident has for many become Ireland’s favourite EnglishmanSun Jun 16 2024 - 06:00
Call for new rules relating to tax and welfare for cross-Border workersEmployers’ groups want it to be easier to live in one jurisdiction and work in the otherFri Jun 14 2024 - 06:00
Campaign to destroy Sunningdale holds lessons for todayShankill activist speaks of regret at marching against dealSat Jun 01 2024 - 11:40
‘Some children are anxious or angry. Sometimes they’re blank. And then they’re expected to go straight into class’Teachers in the Malvern and St Joseph’s primary schools strive to overcome hunger, poverty and low-expectations of their environments to encourage children on to better thingsSun May 26 2024 - 06:00
Dublin-Monaghan attacks mattered less to Irish than Birmingham IRA atrocity, UK diplomat reportedFifty years on from the bombings that killed 33 people, fresh research into contacts between Dublin and London shows the UK believed in 1974 the bombers had been detainedFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
‘Change must come’: One man’s fight to end Northern Ireland’s segregated educationJust 8% of children in the North attend integrated schools. 90-year-old former priest David Rice says helping to change this is his final battleTue May 14 2024 - 05:00
How an enigmatic, cross-dressing British spy became London’s emissary to Dublin in the second World WarDudley Clarke was best known as British intelligence chief who devised the SAS but lesser known is his role advising De Valera’s government on how to fend off a feared German invasionSun May 12 2024 - 08:00
Costs of united Ireland would equal pain of the austerity years, economists sayRecently published report estimated cost for unification at €20bn a year for 20 years but this figure is contestedThu May 02 2024 - 20:54
Farmers in North face major losses if UK-EU vet medicines deal fails, experts warnFailure to reach a deal would be ‘unforgivable’, warns peerTue Apr 30 2024 - 00:01
Bandit Country author says IRA was ‘very clever’ using ‘machinery of the British state against the British state’The book about South Armagh is being republished for the first time after 25 years with a few minor additionsMon Apr 22 2024 - 07:00
The story of the Irish in Britain comes ‘home home’A new exhibition at the Irish Emigration Museum EPIC tells stories of many who left Ireland for Britain from early 70s onwardsThu Apr 18 2024 - 20:29
Britain should not fear ‘an honest approach’ to past sins, says historianMistakes in dealing with terrorism in Northern Ireland are being repeated elsewhere, argues Prof Richard English in a new bookMon Apr 15 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin is now out of touch with its own supporters, claims Aontú leaderMary Lou McDonald ‘wrong-footed’ on major issues as party seeks centre ground to secure majority, Tóibín tells podcastSat Apr 13 2024 - 12:21
‘It’s somewhat downplayed in Ireland – the trouble that the Troubles caused for the Irish living in Britain’ The Look Back to Look Forward exhibition at the Epic museum in Dublin traces the story of the Irish in Britain from the early 1970s to todaySat Apr 13 2024 - 06:00
Wide gaps in education levels for workers in Northern Ireland and Republic – ESRIWorkers in Republic much more likely to be educated to at least degree levelWed Apr 10 2024 - 05:00
Can’t agree on the potential cost of a united Ireland? The Germans may have the answerGermany’s experience is relevant to Ireland given the sharp differences that followed the publication of a report on unification costsThu Apr 04 2024 - 20:19
Price of united Ireland: Bringing North’s welfare up to scratch presents cost challengeIrish unification will cost hundreds of billions over decades, according to a new economic reportThu Apr 04 2024 - 06:00
United Ireland could cost €20bn a year for 20 years, says new studyIrish unity would push up cost to taxpayers, IIEA report saysThu Apr 04 2024 - 06:00
United Ireland: ‘It can’t be, Which side is going to win?’Two academics have gathered the voices of people on both sides of the Border for more than five years about future constitutional changeSat Mar 30 2024 - 06:00
Does the Belfast Agreement need reforming, and can this be done now that Stormont is back?Now more than 25 years old, the Belfast Agreement is showing signs of age. So how can it be reformed, if at all?Fri Mar 29 2024 - 06:00
England, Wales and Scotland all now in favour of Irish unification, research showsThe 2023 State of the Union survey examines attitudes towards constitutional issues in the UKThu Mar 21 2024 - 10:00
‘Why isn’t he called Murphy like the rest of them?’: Leo Varadkar subjected to sustained abuse in UK during Brexit negotiationsVaradkar’s inability to develop a relationship with British prime minister Theresa May marked a low pointThu Mar 21 2024 - 06:45
‘I am a child of the Troubles. Ordinary boring government is much better’Former IRA prisoner turned artist says of post-conflict Northern Irish society: ‘We’re not normal, but we’re heading towards normality’Sat Mar 16 2024 - 06:00
Stormont facing mountain of European legislation, warns major think tankWindsor Framework will put the civil service in Northern Ireland under ‘major strain’Wed Mar 13 2024 - 21:42
Sinn Féin’s Troubles apology may be flawed, but silence from London has been deafening ‘Some were terrible, some were essentially excuses,’ says Prof Kieran McEvoy of the Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past projectWed Mar 13 2024 - 19:00
Charlie Bird: A man who felt fear and faced it with courageDriven by a determination to be ‘useful’, the much-admired journalist wrote a glorious last chapter to his lifeWed Mar 13 2024 - 06:00
Stakeknife: What will legacy of Kenova report into IRA double agent Freddie Scappaticci be? Academic who examined British intelligence’s war against IRA hopes seven-year investigation into spy will still be worthwhileThu Mar 07 2024 - 19:20
SDLP’s New Ireland Commission explores path to unity through ‘partnership, co-operation and reconciliation’Claire Hanna says ‘those of us who want to talk about a new Ireland have an obligation to spell out a lot more exactly what we mean by that’Thu Mar 07 2024 - 06:00
No requirement to secure reconciliation ahead of Border poll, says campaign groupIreland’s Future report outlines steps that could be taken towards vote, including establishment of new government departmentsMon Mar 04 2024 - 18:20
Casement Park brings North/South cross-Border co-operation on to a new pitchCross-Border co-operation has become easier in recent years, but it remains a balancing actTue Feb 20 2024 - 18:22
Micheál Martin: ‘I believe in the Wolfe Tone idea of uniting people. That’s hard work’In an interview on the future of Ireland, the Tánaiste says he's concerned at the language around unificationMon Feb 19 2024 - 06:00
Reform of Stormont rules needed to avoid further collapses, says MartinPolicy must be agreed ahead of the next Assembly elections in three years - TánaisteMon Feb 19 2024 - 06:00
Eamonn Mallie: ‘Emma Little-Pengelly is much more cross-culturally aware than any DUP people I know’ Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern IrelandSun Feb 18 2024 - 06:00
Cut planning appeals to increase building, ESRI arguesState aiming to build 33,000 homes annually, Scotland 110,000 by 2032, and England targeting 180,000 a year, says reportWed Jan 31 2024 - 00:01
Killings of 13 Protestants in west Cork in 1922 were sectarian acts, say descendents of victims Dunmanway Discussion Group said the Government should issue a ‘belated’ statement ‘recognising unequivocally’ that the Bandon Valley killings were ‘sectarian acts perpetrated by elements of the IRA’Tue Jan 30 2024 - 20:06
DUP should ask ‘why they are no longer the first party’, says Westminster NI affairs chairThe party has choices to make soon and it must ensure that indifference in Britain does not become hostilityFri Jan 12 2024 - 07:00
Mayhew confessed to thinking Northern job would be ‘relatively undemanding’Former Northern secretary saw the UUP leader David Trimble as ‘a deeply insecure leader’Thu Dec 28 2023 - 05:00
Governments urged to reflect amid conflict over UK’s Legacy ActFormer British justice secretary Robert Buckland urges calm amid dispute between London and DublinFri Dec 22 2023 - 13:17
Prosecutions linked to Troubles crimes should be shelved, says Michael McDowellIrish Times columnist and former attorney general and minister for justice dismissive of Sinn Féin calls for historical investigationsFri Dec 22 2023 - 06:00
Dick Spring: ‘I don’t want to sound like I’m lecturing or hectoring young people’Having helped pave the way for the Downing Street Declaration and peace in Northern Ireland, the former Labour leader is wary of being seen to preach to generations with no memory of the TroublesSun Dec 17 2023 - 06:00
Stormont holds out for more London money but any deal will have strings attached, says former top civil servantUK government offered Northern Ireland politicians £2.5bn to get Executive up and running, as serious demographic challenges loomSat Dec 16 2023 - 06:07
NI parties offered hundreds of millions in extra public spending to return to StormontOffer by Chris Heaton-Harris may not be enough to fill budget gap with public sector pay rises dueMon Dec 11 2023 - 16:00
Respectful talks on new Ireland needed, says DUP founder memberNorthern Ireland in new constitutional position because of sea border for trade between Northern Ireland and Britain following Brexit, says Wallace ThompsonFri Dec 08 2023 - 18:53
Decision on ECHR legacy challenge soon, says TánaisteThe Government has noted the total opposition from all of Northern Ireland’s political parties and victims’ groups to the legislationTue Nov 28 2023 - 19:21
Young people across island becoming increasingly pessimistic about future, study showsPeople born in Northern Ireland after 1989 show largest recent declines in optimism, ESRI paper findsMon Nov 27 2023 - 18:18
Gavin Esler on British politics: ‘We’ve got a lot of fairly rotten people in parliament’The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in WestminsterSat Nov 25 2023 - 06:00
