‘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
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
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
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
John Bruton’s former adviser says history of the peace process needs to be rewrittenShane Kenny says the then taoiseach never received the credit due for his role leading up to the Belfast AgreementMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to voteUnder-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United KingdomTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioningFormer Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakersSun Oct 27 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s reputation enhanced by stance on Gaza, says Mary RobinsonFormer president says Israel being led ‘by a bad government at the moment'Thu Oct 24 2024 - 21:13
British-Irish traders ‘buried in bureaucracy after Brexit’Drop in Irish SME trade with Britain ‘depressing’, British minister tells conferenceThu Oct 24 2024 - 18:26
Oscar winner David Puttnam says film production can play role in ‘shared’ IrelandAcclaimed producer says governments North and South should invest in cross-Border culture to build mutual understandingWed Oct 23 2024 - 19:00
Four-fifths of Northern Irish households receive more in benefits than they pay in taxAverage Southern household pays three times more taxFri Oct 18 2024 - 00:01
Ireland will have to decide what neutrality means, says former head of security inquiryIreland’s geographical location has been enough to offer security over recent decades, but ‘the world is changing’Tue Oct 15 2024 - 19:00
Sinn Féin’s old rules of secrecy will no longer do amid fresh controversySinn Féin figures did not know what to say about the party’s handling of job references for a former official now convicted of a child sex offence, but it was the issue they couldn’t escapeSun Oct 13 2024 - 07:02
Thirty years on from ceasefire, loyalist communities remain ignored, poor and threatened from within‘People try to make distinctions between a good paramilitary and a bad paramilitary. A good paramilitary might be somebody who sells coke on a Saturday night. A bad paramilitary would be somebody who’s dealing heroin’Sat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Telling the story of an IRA hunger-striker: ‘What’s on stage is the reality: death, brutality, viciousness’Staging the Martin Hurson Story has caused disquiet in parts of the North. Its aim is not to glorify, says its writerSat Oct 12 2024 - 05:15
Jon Sopel on the madness of post-Brexit Britain: ‘I think we’ve done some stupid sh*t’ The BBC correspondent turned award-winning podcaster has published a new book, Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making SenseSun Oct 06 2024 - 18:02
Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder: a massacre intended to strike fear into the hearts of CatholicsIn a new book Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, a massacre whose repercussions continue to be feltSun Oct 06 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s corporation tax system ‘not sustainable’, says Bertie AhernAhern claims Trump’s economic policies ‘are a threat to everything built in Ireland in my lifetime’Sat Oct 05 2024 - 06:00
David Lammy becomes first British foreign secretary to visit Dublin for seven yearsSparse detail of talks emerges after meeting with Micheál Martin but countries vow to deepen ‘key strategic links’Thu Oct 03 2024 - 18:54
Sinn Féin plans to move Northern Ireland remit out of DFA in governmentParty will immediately begin ‘structured and detailed planning towards Irish unity’ if elected to office, ardfheis toldSat Sept 28 2024 - 16:19
Has Leo Varadkar really found his ‘inner Shinner’ with Irish unity comments?Give me a Crash Course in ... the former taoiseach reigniting the debate about a united IrelandSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
‘This is the opportunity for people to tell their story in full’: People held in institutions in Northern Ireland urged to come forwardAn independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearbyFri Sept 27 2024 - 19:00
Varadkar says immigration numbers have risen too quickly in IrelandFormer taoiseach warns against populism and prejudice but concedes immigration a challenge for Irish societyFri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
‘No reason why Dáil couldn’t sit for a time in Stormont,’ says VaradkarFormer taoiseach calls for all parties to make pledge on Irish unityThu Sept 26 2024 - 13:15
