Common Ground

What if Derry city was included in the Irish Free State or Donegal included in Northern Ireland? Or if there was no Border at all?

Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly noted the role played by international social media actors in the recent disturbances at the Citywest Hotel

While the importance of the Anglo Irish Agreement is sometimes overlooked, it was the foundation on which all subsequent progress has been based

The Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed 40 years ago this week, didn’t bring the reassurance that was hoped for, but ultimately was a significant milestone

With 181 pupils, Scoil an Droichid is at capacity but will finally have a permanent home come next September

Treaty ‘normalised’ relations between Dublin and London

Television: Adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s novel starring Lola Petticrew and Gillian Anderson isn’t perfect with moments of unintentional hilarity

Staunch unionists are pinning their hopes on her presidency damaging US-Irish relations but it’s easier to imagine her falling out with Sinn Féin than Trump

Ben Collins favours Irish unity and encourages others of similar heritage to engage with subject

Dick Spring urges political leaders ‘to jump one fence at a time’ on 40th anniversary of Anglo-Irish Agreement

Not one of the 2,000 scenarios it considers for the next 40 years involves the ending of partition

Unthinkable: Fact-checking isn’t enough to save democracy, we need logic-checking

Sectarianism displayed towards Heather Humphreys was startling and depressing

The plainspoken west Belfast actor on their love of Ballymurphy, ongoing intergenerational trauma in the North, and why they refuse to just ‘shut up, smile, wave and wear pretty clothes’

Nobody should be forced to wear the contentious symbol - take it from the British Legion and Imperial War Museum

Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

An Irish language commissioner, an Ulster Scots commissioner and an Office of Identity and Cultural Expression have just been appointed, a classic three legged stool

Comments made by former Conservative minister Greg Hands at seminar hosted in Dublin

Katie McCabe this year is receiving much of the treatment normally reserved for Derryman James McClean

Stephen Crean, son of a Dublin mother and Roscommon father, cherishes childhood memories of Ireland

Any move to unity in the near future could prove serious for an unprepared Northern Ireland economy

Abuse of Heather Humphreys will feed into unity debate in Northern Ireland

He once joked that coming under attack from both sides made him the ‘epitome of a balanced Ulsterman’

Kerry exhibition of Life magazine images by French photojournalist revisits the start of the Troubles

Passenger numbers on the Enterprise service are up by 40% in a year

The Minister for Justice is unafraid to say he wants a single sovereign state for Ireland

Silver awards worth €100,000 each were awarded to a partnership between the Galway-based Grá Chocolates, and Needi, which supplies corporate gifts

Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm

David McCullagh opens up an issue which remains instructive in many ways. This deserves wide readership and debate

Roots celebrated - and a few slaps thrown - as Ireland and Scotland face off in Inverness

Individual tailored partnership programme between Ireland and Nato is under ‘threat’, Jock Stirrup warns

Guarantees are required, and a firm idea of what will be voted on. Enough is known to commence deliberations on timing

Fine Gael campaign team rejected advice to promote candidate’s background as unique selling point

Founded in west Belfast by Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the festival now attracts 25,000 visitors each year

Owen talks about her marriage to a Galwegian, the Irish phrases that were common in her Cumbrian childhood, and her daunting Irish-speaking debut with Michael D Higgins

Lawyer Michael Farrell represented transgender woman Lydia Foy after earning his stripes during the Troubles in the North

FG candidate says unionist asked ‘if that’s what they put you through, Heather, what hope have the rest of us?’

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride demonstrate the importance of free and reasoned deliberation

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK