‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity The Republic needs to start listening, young SDLP members say at this weekend’s party conferenceSun Oct 05 2025 - 10:35
Irish Government must lead unification preparations, says VaradkarFormer taoiseach says Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dropped unity objective from manifestos Sat Oct 04 2025 - 10:28
Impending changes in planning laws ‘more important’ than budget negotiations - MinisterJack Chambers says urgent reform need to deliver key infrastructure projects as ‘endless process’ gets in the way of deliveryFri Oct 03 2025 - 07:56
Planning objectors now threaten the common good, says head of planning taskforce Sean O’Driscoll says objectors are winning their legal costs too easily in system where number of judicial reviews swamps UK figures Thu Oct 02 2025 - 17:24
Talks on food and meat sales between EU and UK could be completed ‘in less than a year’It had been understood that they could take until 2027Thu Oct 02 2025 - 15:53
Irish unification can offer ‘new rising tide of energy and momentum’, McAleese says Former president of Ireland spoke at launch of book on unity by the Belfast-based writer Ben CollinsThu Oct 02 2025 - 09:00
Trade between Republic and Northern Ireland now ‘an oasis of calm’, businesses told Transactions have risen from €2 billion in 1998 to €15 billion last yearWed Oct 01 2025 - 16:29
United Ireland more likely under a Heather Humphreys presidency, says leading PresbyterianProfessor Sam McConkey says many Presbyterians in the Republic favour a united IrelandMon Sept 29 2025 - 06:00
Presidential candidates should encourage planning for Irish unity, says SDLPParty leader Claire Hanna made appeal in letter sent to Humphreys, Gavin and Connolly after close of nominationsWed Sept 24 2025 - 16:08
Families of Troubles victims killed along Border still await answers from StateFamilies of victims allege collaboration between gardaí and IRAMon Sept 22 2025 - 06:00
New Troubles legacy deal criticised by victims’ groupBritish-Irish framework should have dealt with ‘lingering issues of concern’, SEFF saysSun Sept 21 2025 - 19:00
In Heather Humphreys country: ‘It was hard to find a Protestant not in the Orange Order’Monaghan folk shy away from questions about identity but a leading Orangeman is not afraid to give his verdict on Michael D HigginsSun Sept 21 2025 - 06:00
Large numbers of cross-Border public workers ‘face tax headaches’Companies increasingly using IT filters to reject job applications, conference hearsFri Sept 19 2025 - 06:00
Troubles victims ‘significantly more likely’ to need disability welfare Older working-age adults in NI are twice as likely to receive disability benefits compared to people in EnglandThu Sept 11 2025 - 15:24
Belfast Agreement referendum vote ‘saved’ by U2’s concert, new book saysUUP leader David Trimble initially refused to take off his jacket, saying: ‘I don’t do that’Wed Sept 10 2025 - 06:00
Britain should allow EU to reopen Belfast office, says NI trade bodyTrade NI says such an office would help greatly to deal with Windsor Framework problems and other trade issuesWed Sept 10 2025 - 05:00
Leaving post, but not leaving Ireland: the UK ambassador who is not going home For five years, Paul Johnston has been the British ambassador to Ireland - soon, he will become a private citizen in DublinTue Sept 09 2025 - 06:00
Leo Varadkar autobiography: Six takeaways, from Golfgate to that heave against Enda Kenny ‘Eccentric’ childhood obsession with politics, criticism of Garret FitzGerald, and champagne with Nigel FarageMon Sept 08 2025 - 19:32
How the Nigel Farage factor could upend the Belfast AgreementQuitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration controlMon Sept 08 2025 - 06:10
Legacy body must have power to recommend Troubles prosecutions, says Hilary BennUK government ‘close’ to announcing deal on legacy cases, Northern Ireland secretary saysSat Sept 06 2025 - 19:21
Conor McGregor has ‘negligible chance’ of securing presidential nomination, Tánaiste saysFormer TD Marc MacSharry has been surveying councillors in research to gauge interest in possible Bob Geldof tilt at the ÁrasFri Sept 05 2025 - 22:08
Foras na Gaeilge has driven Irish language growth in the North, says report Report examines operation of all cross-border bodies set up by the Belfast AgreementFri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Simon Harris says European Convention on Human Rights is ‘fundamental’ to Belfast Agreement Tánaiste to give speech to counter growing opposition in UK over European Convention on Human RightsFri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Northern Ireland facing ‘quite scary’ shortage of key skilled workers, minister saysStormont economy minster says the difficulties were further reason for British-Irish agreementWed Sept 03 2025 - 17:08
The Deployment of Art by Clare Carolin: A scathing critique of official British versions of the TroublesThe British academic skewers the long campaign by the British army to promote itself ‘as a kindly force of non-partisan peacekeepers’Thu Aug 28 2025 - 04:29
Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more Sat Aug 23 2025 - 06:00
Forensic advances bring chance of new prosecutions for Guildford and other 1970s IRA bombingsSome investigations will result in arrests for killings 50 years ago, official says, despite unpopular new legacy regimeWed Aug 20 2025 - 06:00
Ireland's camino walks: St Finbarr's Way - West CorkSt Finbarr's Way is a 35 kilometre walk from Drimoleague to Gougane Barra in West Cork. Video: Mark HennessyTue Aug 19 2025 - 06:34
This stunning west Cork walking route was created by volunteers. They say more State support is neededThis picturesque west Cork walking route from Drimoleague to Gougane Barra has been developed as a passion project by local volunteers, who want more help from the State to promote itTue Aug 19 2025 - 06:00
My Saxophone Saved My Life by Des Lee and The Killing of the Reavey Brothers by Eugene Reavey: Angry accounts of atrocities and the continuing search for answers British authorities have put up obstacles to both men as they have fought for decades to discover the truth Mon Aug 18 2025 - 04:28
Unity must be part of presidential election debate, says former SDLP leaderColum Eastwood has made clear his interest in running in the presidential electionMon Aug 11 2025 - 19:00
‘Beating up’ presidency candidates scares people off, says Seán GallagherTime is running out for candidates, and ‘without a nomination you can’t fundraise, you can’t build a team’Mon Aug 11 2025 - 06:00
Maxol CEO: ‘People will work to a budget more in the North than what you might find in the South’The forecourt retailer has successfully navigated trading on both sides of the Border for more than a century. Now it’s tackling the transition to EVsTue Aug 05 2025 - 06:00
AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot DesmondBusinessman says Government should abandon project as AI will lead to rise in self-driving carsTue Aug 05 2025 - 06:00
Former US ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith turned against Sinn Féin after 9/11, British files claimShe also thought Tony Blair ‘should be much tougher with IRA’, friend told British prime minister’s chief of staffTue Jul 22 2025 - 00:07
Convicted soldiers’ return to service showed it was ‘all right to kill a Paddy’, Sinn Féin figure complainedGerry Kelly said British army decision to readmit soldiers jailed for murder was a ‘disgrace’Tue Jul 22 2025 - 00:01
Michael McDowell pushed for British amnesty for IRA members without trial, UK files revealTreatment of the so-called ‘on-the-runs’ later became a major controversyTue Jul 22 2025 - 00:01
Presidential race: Party ‘open to meeting’ Tony Holohan and Michael Flatley on nominationsMary Hanafin says it would be ‘insult’ to presidency if FF does not run candidate Sun Jul 20 2025 - 19:58
It will be an ‘insult’ if Fianna Fáil don’t enter presidential race, says Mary HanafinFormer minister has made clear her wish to be nominated by the partySat Jul 19 2025 - 22:39
‘Almost impossible’ for Irish people to understand Baltic fear of Russian invasion, says ex-MEPCiarán Cuffe says Germany and Austria find it very difficult to recognise magnitude of human slaughter in Palestine Sat Jul 19 2025 - 17:47
Negative attitude toward HSE is increasingly corrosive and destructive, says Stephen Donnelly Negative attitude toward health service is increasingly corrosive and destructive, says Stephen Donnelly Fri Jul 18 2025 - 20:30
Supreme Court is still changing society, says Attorney GeneralDeclarations of unconstitutionality still happening, says Rossa Fanning, but there is less ‘low-hanging fruit’ Fri Jul 18 2025 - 16:30
Better-off families ‘sailing away from the have-nots’, warns OmbudsmanGovernment unable to inform Ombudsman how much it spends on children, says Dr Niall MuldoonThu Jul 17 2025 - 19:00
State urged to target five or six ‘crucial’ infrastructure projects Failure to action Greater Dublin Drainage project will stall necessary new housing in north Dublin, MacGill summer school hearsThu Jul 17 2025 - 16:20
‘No real evidence’ Occupied Territories Bill would cost Ireland dearly, Amnesty chief saysEmployers’ association head meanwhile criticises ‘moral positioning’ which will harm businessThu Jul 17 2025 - 15:22
Partition was ‘designed to be intractable’, says Micheál Martin Boundary Commission report brought ‘radicalising moment’ in Irish history, says Taoiseach Tue Jul 08 2025 - 20:28
Easyjet’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou: ‘Michael O’Leary has this philosophy that if you lower customer expectations, you can lower your costs’EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has created the North–South Business Co-operation Awards to encourage cross-Border entrepreneurship Mon Jul 07 2025 - 06:00
Noraid: ‘They started to run it down from the early 1990s – They said I had an image as an IRA supporter’New RTÉ documentary tells the story of Republican fundraising in the United States during the TroublesSun Jul 06 2025 - 12:00
Irish unification would cost €152m annually to give Northern Irish civil servants pay parity, report saysJoint study points to evidence that unification is affordableThu Jul 03 2025 - 21:16
The people behind the numbers as Ireland’s population grows by nearly a third in 20 years In 2022, the population of the island exceeded seven million for the first time since the FamineWed Jul 02 2025 - 16:01
