Boy’s letter about not being able to play outside after Bloody Sunday touched taoiseach, new State records showDerry boy Cormac Quigley’s note arrived during some of the darkest days of the TroublesMon Mar 31 2025 - 15:54
US airlines’ demand to be allowed to land at Dublin threatened Aer Lingus and west of Ireland, Lynch told NixonWashington put pressure on government in early 1970s to stop forcing passenger planes from US to land at ShannonSun Mar 30 2025 - 15:00
Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warnNorthern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report saysFri Mar 28 2025 - 13:23
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck: The Broadway audience gasps at Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ New York Letter: The actor was called a traitor 20 years ago for condemning George W Bush. Today, the problem is worseMon Mar 24 2025 - 05:00
Trump’s ‘America First’ policy will hurt the US, warns Simon CoveneyFormer minister for foreign affairs says Ireland needs to ‘double down on our investment in relationships’Wed Mar 19 2025 - 16:41
Immigration ‘makes the United States what it is’, Boston-Irish audience toldIreland can be guiding light for US during ‘turbulent, divided and disputatious time’Tue Mar 18 2025 - 13:52
Fewer St Patrick’s Day fairytales in New York for today’s ‘undocumented’ Irish A new generation of emigrants never arrived to replenish the ranks who came in droves in the 1980s, but the connection is still preciousSun Mar 16 2025 - 19:00
St Patrick not ‘the sole preserve of Irish nationalism’, says Orange OrderProtestant organisation sends greeting card to Irish embassies to mark St Patrick’s DayFri Mar 14 2025 - 19:00
US multinationals will protect their Irish interests despite Trump pressure, says congressmanLong-serving Democrat Richard Neal says Micheál Martin’s visit to White House will be seen internationally as a victory for IrelandThu Mar 13 2025 - 19:00
End of segregation in Northern Ireland is a long way off, report findsMore than two-thirds of parents in Northern Ireland want their children to be educated alongside those from the other traditionThu Mar 13 2025 - 06:00
North’s business leaders and politicians look to deepen ties with US during trade missionNorthern Ireland going for growth as it develops stronger links with North CarolinaTue Mar 11 2025 - 05:00
Trump urged to appoint NI special envoy to support US interests after Kennedy departureTwo congressmen call for envoy to give US companies certainty over investmentsMon Mar 10 2025 - 17:31
‘It’s about women North and South learning about each other, learning about the grassroots issues in their communities’Talk of a new Ireland is one thing, but it must focus on improving people’s lives to be worth anything, women declare in LongfordSun Mar 09 2025 - 17:00
Anglo-Irish relations have suffered badly over the last decade, and the work to repair them will take time and effortThe key will be to keep London’s attention as Martin, Starmer and ministers meet for talks amid geopolitical upheavalWed Mar 05 2025 - 06:00
Young people want Northern Ireland to work, not endless debates about unity, say Alliance membersIrish unity poses difficulties for the party leader, Naomi Long, who has changed stance on Border pollSun Mar 02 2025 - 17:04
Plans to talk to loyalist paramilitaries disgraceful, says AllianceNaomi Long opposes decision of Dublin and London to look at merits of appointing representative to deal with the gangsSun Mar 02 2025 - 16:18
‘Who killed my husband? My brother? My father?’: Martin Dillon on the forgotten women of the TroublesIn a new book, The Sorrow And The Loss, the Belfast journalist turns his attention to the impact of the conflict on women on both sides of the BorderSun Mar 02 2025 - 06:00
Democratic Unionists Party now ‘fan boys’ for Donald Trump, says AllianceAlliance Party, along with Sinn Féin, will not travel to White House in Washington for St Patrick’s visitSat Mar 01 2025 - 15:24
‘Different currency, same people.’ All-island market offers opportunity and challenges on both sides of the BorderNorth-South trade has grown rapidly, but more could be done to turn the Dublin Belfast Economic Corridor into a powerhouse, a conference has heardFri Feb 28 2025 - 06:00
SMEs now dominating Cross-Border trade Most companies on Ireland do first exports across BorderThu Feb 27 2025 - 16:55
‘This new generation doesn’t like the past’: A night at a unionist meeting Unionists are ‘allowing republicans/nationalists to get inside our heads’ and control narrative on Irish unity being ‘inevitable’Fri Feb 21 2025 - 06:00
North of England and its discontents: Long shadow left by Hillsborough remains The 1989 football disaster changed everything about the way the region thought about London and the ruling elitesThu Feb 20 2025 - 16:34
‘Simon Harris is not interested in this, period’: How Irish unity has slid down the political agenda Tánaiste Simon Harris’s suggestion in Stormont recently that unification is ‘not a priority’ for him surprised few peopleTue Feb 18 2025 - 06:00
Northern businesses setting up firms in the Republic to benefit from lower corporation taxesSome British-based companies increasingly reluctant to trade with Northern Ireland because of the paperwork challengesMon Feb 17 2025 - 16:52
‘I’ve a full head of anger in me’: Family of hit-and-run victim Joe Drennan say justice deniedStudent’s family are deeply critical of the concurrent sentence handed down to a Limerick gangland criminal who left him dying under his car Fri Feb 07 2025 - 06:00
Mark Durkan: There’s a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ about united Ireland Former SDLP leader Mark Durkan says there is a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ surrounding the options for constitutional changeMon Feb 03 2025 - 06:00
Student solicitors win place in Irish Times debate finalDavid Rattigan and Emer Nolan take team place, while Trinity’s Mary Woods makes individual finalFri Jan 31 2025 - 06:51
‘I actually felt unsafe as an English person in the Aviva’Dublin-based English academic Mike Cronin says atmosphere at recent Ireland-England soccer match highlights lack of respect for ‘the other’ built into partition of islandSat Jan 04 2025 - 06:00
On the waterways of Ireland: A quiet success of peace on the islandSome 800,000 people made cross-Border journeys by cruiser, bicycle or foot - a story that Waterways Ireland’s chief John McDonagh says must be told moreWed Jan 01 2025 - 06:00
Joint British/Irish courts in Northern Ireland were backed by top ConservativesState records show controversial plan for paramilitary trials had backing in UK cabinet before Thatcher turned it downMon Dec 30 2024 - 00:00
Assembly elections postponement ‘the biggest single setback in years’, Sinn Féin warnedThe unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony BlairMon Dec 30 2024 - 00:00
Northern Ireland’s construction industry was ‘rotten’ with paramilitary links, officials told IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries were able to ‘cream off’ millions through extortion racketsMon Dec 30 2024 - 00:00
‘Show some respect’, Brian Cowen told Gerry Adams in furious Belfast meeting, records showKidnapping of dissident Tohill in 2004 heightened tensions, with McDowell comparing Sinn Féin to NazisSun Dec 29 2024 - 12:00
Nationalists feel ‘sense of ease’ when they travel south, Dick Spring toldResidents of Dunloy village, north Antrim, suffered sectarian abuse and oppressive policingSun Dec 29 2024 - 00:01
US attorney general believed IRA tried to buy weapons after 1994 ceasefire, State papers revealBill Clinton overruled objections to let Gerry Adams fundraise – and to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in White HouseSun Dec 29 2024 - 00:00
Concessions to Loyalist Volunteer Force horrified Dublin, records showIrish officials suspicious of ‘malign mandarins’ encouraging ‘King Rat’ Billy WrightSun Dec 29 2024 - 00:00
Senior Northern Ireland judge disliked Jews just as much as he did Catholics, officials toldIssue raised over possible elevation of well-regarded lawyer Ronnie Appleton to benchSat Dec 28 2024 - 00:01
Stakeknife allegations ‘traumatised’ Sinn Féin, Ahern and Blair believedDisclosure ignited ‘all kinds’ of conspiracy theories about who was being protected and who eliminatedSat Dec 28 2024 - 00:00
NI Policing Authority report nothing more than RUC ‘propaganda’, Irish official believedEamonn McKee complained the report’s ‘studied neutrality’ was not intended to reflect Catholic attitudes accuratelySat Dec 28 2024 - 00:00
Dublin blindsided on Chris Patten’s appointment as head of NI policing commission, State records showJune 1998 briefing note prepared for then taoiseach Bertie Ahern complained of ‘strong dissatisfaction’ with British handling of the matterFri Dec 27 2024 - 00:00
More should have been done to protect assassinated lawyer Rosemary Nelson, British officials later acceptedLawyer Rosemary Nelson had reported many death threats and instances of harassment to the RUC before she was killed by a loyalist car bomb in 1999Fri Dec 27 2024 - 00:00
Protestant churches face a day of reckoning with North’s inquiry into mother and baby homesThe majority of those held in homes across the North came from a Protestant background, and their babies were adopted by Protestant familiesSat Dec 14 2024 - 06:00
‘I would do it again in a heartbeat’: former RUC officer consigned to a wheelchair by the IRA on serving in the TroublesFormer police officers defend the force they served, but feel increasingly forgottenSat Dec 07 2024 - 05:00
Cross-Border worker numbers falling because of tax rulesCompanies ‘appear to be struggling’ to comply with rules, especially with remote working, study findsThu Nov 28 2024 - 07:37
One Border, two systems, endless complications: ‘My NI colleagues work from home while I am forced to commute to an empty office’Companies are increasingly wary of hiring cross-Border workers because of tax, pension and payroll issues, report warnsThu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00
Irish unity quietly becoming more significant for Dáil partiesVoters are not talking about Irish unity, but an increasing number of politicians are convinced issue will occupy more time in years aheadWed Nov 27 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin pledges unity referendums can happen by 2030Mary Lou McDonald outlines how a government led by the party would prioritise a united IrelandFri Nov 22 2024 - 19:20
Monaghan Men’s Shed: ‘The HSE has told us that we have kept people out of the hospitals’The group has two politicians among its membership, though they generally tend to leave politics at the doorFri Nov 22 2024 - 06:00
Bertie Ahern accused of creating ‘mythology’ surrounding role in peace processJohn Bruton’s work on Northern Ireland ‘has been forgotten’, says ex-minister, as author suggests Ahern should be ‘a little bit more generous’ to othersSat Nov 09 2024 - 14:24
Michael McMonagle, former Sinn Féin press officer, jailed for nine months for child sexual offences PSNI Detective Chief Superintendent issues a warning to paedophiles and vigilantes seeking to hunt themFri Nov 08 2024 - 12:05
