Cameron hoping party will uncover from Ukip damage in time for general electionOpinion: Tories hope to scare electorate by painting opponents as Old Labour villainsFri Oct 04 2013 - 00:01
Ryanair to continue Kerry winter serviceIT ‘glitch’ blamed for announcement of incorrect flight timesThu Oct 03 2013 - 22:18
Corruption rife in UK construction, say senior buildersNo prosecutions under anti-bribery law though more than a third said they had been offered inducementsThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:13
Jeremy Paxman’s Great War: the unrevised editionJeremy Paxman is best known as the pugilistic presenter of ‘Newsnight’, but he pulls no punches in his new book on Britain during the first World WarThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Miliband demands apology from ‘Mail’ over gravestone photoPrime minister David Cameron and Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg have criticised newspaper for attacking Labour leader’s fatherThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Riots threaten to deter investors, says VilliersSpeculation about her continued place in the Cabinet continuesThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Cameron outlines stark ideological choice facing British electorate in 2015Prime minister uses party conference speech to emphasise differences between Conservatives and LabourThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Conservative minister promises a welfare system that ‘lifts you when you can rise’Iain Duncan Smith does not have to look far to find critics of his reformsWed Oct 02 2013 - 01:08
Theresa Villiers denies claim British government has a ‘semi-detached’ attitude to Northern IrelandSecretary of State says Labour accusation ‘lacks any credibility’Wed Oct 02 2013 - 01:00
House of Lords is seen as a stuffy but useful revising chamber for legislationReform has moved at a glacial pace and the latest attempt, by Nick Clegg, ended in failureWed Oct 02 2013 - 01:00
Tories vow to end annual deficitsConservatives promise new era of financial responsibility with debt pledgeTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:01
British soldiers accused of singing sectarian songs at Rangers matchMinistry of Defence says personnel will be disciplined if claims over chants at Ibrox are provenTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:00
The name’s Boyd, William Boyd: a date with the new James Bond novelistThe man behind ‘Solo’ talks about Bond’s drinking and misogyny and names Daniel Day-Lewis as a perfect fitMon Sept 30 2013 - 01:00
Irish blood, New Labour henchman heart: dark arts under Gordon BrownAs a Labour spin doctor, Damian McBride regarded as fair game every weakness in his boss’s opponentsMon Sept 30 2013 - 01:00
Forty years on, ‘The World at War’ has lost none of its powerIt was commissioned to justify a tax break but the series has outlived its creator, Thames TelevisionFri Sept 27 2013 - 01:09
Ed Miliband’s pitch for 2015 already evident: are you are worse off now?Labour leader has turned the Conservatives’ strategy on its head, making business the targetFri Sept 27 2013 - 01:00
Ryanair to accept American Express for the first timeAmex cards will have the same €8 fee and 2 per cent commission charge levied on every credit cardWed Sept 25 2013 - 21:16
Energy price freeze pledge by Labour’s Ed MilibandTime to lift all boats, not ‘all yachts’, he tells party conferenceWed Sept 25 2013 - 01:00
No action against Irish consultant over NHS hospital scandalEnd of inquiry into doctors’ conduct at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation TrustTue Sept 24 2013 - 01:01
Power play by McBride a sore spot for LabourFear and loathing, if it ever left, has returned to the heart of LabourMon Sept 23 2013 - 21:46
SNP misleading Scots on independence poll, says Johann LamontLabour holding annual conference in BrightonMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:02
UKIP ready for gains, but old problems keep coming backBloom’s outbursts making party subject of ridiculeSat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Teenager due in court over Leicester arson attackLocal belief that family were wrongly blamed for death of manFri Sept 20 2013 - 07:47
Non-EU immigrants without health insurance should be banned from UK, says Ukip‘Health tourism’ issue increasingly contentious with some putting cost at £200mFri Sept 20 2013 - 01:00
Highlands beauty a poor draw for doctors used to creature comfortsTwo advertising campaigns have failed, with just two hiringsThu Sept 19 2013 - 20:13
McGuinness says he regrets the past cannot be changedSinn Féin Deputy First Minister marks 20th anniversary of the Warrington bombsThu Sept 19 2013 - 09:35
Boys’ deaths ‘absolutely shameful’, says McGuinnessColin Parry fends off criticism over decision to invite Sinn Féin leaderThu Sept 19 2013 - 09:28
McGuinness says those hurt in Britain need input in NI talks‘Compromise not a dirty word’ McGuinness tells Warrington audienceThu Sept 19 2013 - 08:12
Lib Dems stopped 16 ‘heartless plans’, Clegg tells party delegatesParty leader appeals to voters to back its involvement in 2015 coalition governmentWed Sept 18 2013 - 21:02
Scottish independence campaign yet to igniteWith a referendum a year away, Scots await the start of the debate properWed Sept 18 2013 - 01:00
Sinn Féin TD criticises Tánaiste’s speech to British-Irish AssociationConor Murphy describes Eamon Gilmore’s speech as ‘contentious’Tue Sept 17 2013 - 21:43
Nothing scrambled about Clegg’s message to Lib Dem faithful over coalition strategyLeadership warns single-party rule could squander sacrifices made since 2010Mon Sept 16 2013 - 22:34
Liberal Democrats support use of fracking and nuclear powerBritish energy secretary Ed Davey advises rejection of anti-fracking ‘zealots’Mon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00
Dublin doctor speaks of grief over death of wife and children in arson attackMuhammad Taufiq Al Sattar tells mosque he ‘deeply misses’ his ‘beautiful’ familyMon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00
Cardinal O’Brien told not to return to ScotlandNorthern Ireland-born cardinal forced from office after admitting sexual misconduct against priests is believed to be staying in a monastery in RomeMon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00
Clegg in bid to hold party line on economic policyLiberal Democrat left-wingers to attack economic strategy at party's conference in GlasgowSat Sept 14 2013 - 20:06
Mistaken identity theory as mother and three children die in suspected arson attackThree arrested in connection with earlier killing of man in his twentiesSat Sept 14 2013 - 00:38
Death of Dublin-based doctor’s wife and children in UK treated as murderWoman and three teenagers who died in Leicester fire regularly visited father in IrelandFri Sept 13 2013 - 18:20
It’s a dirty job, but do Thames authorities have to do it?London Letter: Plans to build a London super-sewer are proving unpopularFri Sept 13 2013 - 01:00
Ireland back in vogue with the world’s infrastructure investorsBitten once by the collapse of projects, such as Dublin’s Metro, international investors in infrastructure are once more looking at Ireland, MARK HENNESSY, London Editor reportsFri Sept 13 2013 - 01:00
Abolishing Seanad would not save €20m, FG TD saysPhelan tells debate that savings claim was one of ‘erroneous argument’ in campaignFri Sept 13 2013 - 00:29
Barroso fears UK Independence Party will beat Conservatives in next year’s European electionsEuropean Commission president accuses some of threatening to take Europe ‘back to isolation’Thu Sept 12 2013 - 01:21
Irish in UK slow to back calls for voting rights in presidential electionsConstitutional Convention to debate emigrant voting rightsThu Sept 12 2013 - 01:02
Construction firms in Wales to be barred from State contracts if they blacklist workersHundreds of Irish faced discrimination since the 1970sWed Sept 11 2013 - 22:29
Ed Miliband and Britain’s top trade unions back away from open confrontationPlans could cost Labour millionsWed Sept 11 2013 - 01:27
Grehan London apartment for saleFirst apartment in expensive development to be repossessedWed Sept 11 2013 - 01:11
British government trying to distance itself from North’s past - MPFamilies of Ballymurphy victims seeking Hillsborough-style inquiryTue Sept 10 2013 - 17:15
John Kerry says that US would order ‘unbelievably small’ strikesUS secretary of state says Assad will never negotiate unless forced to do soMon Sept 09 2013 - 22:16
State willing to act on unionist claims over IRA - GilmoreAllegation that State did not do enough to stop IRA must be acknowledgedMon Sept 09 2013 - 10:04
Irish State tried to curb violence, Gilmore tells British-Irish meetingTánaiste acknowledges unionists have perception State did not do enoughMon Sept 09 2013 - 01:06
