How do welfare payments compare with what you get north of the Border?
We take a look at some of the major payments - pension, unemployment and child benefit
Evolving Islands: Ireland & Britain - a special series from The Irish Times exploring the complex relationship between the two
We take a look at some of the major payments - pension, unemployment and child benefit
Mike Nesbitt warns ‘biggest threat’ to NI remaining part of UK is English nationalism
If Alliance, SDLP and UUP cannot offer alternative to Sinn Féin-DUP, it is hard to see what they are for
The former Sinn Féin and DUP MPs have made a BBC Northern Ireland podcast on the thorny subject
Daily flights between the two cities were stopped in 2011 in the wake of the economic crash
Book moves rather disconcertingly from reflections on author’s musical life to aftermath of murderous episode in 1975
Irish Cultural Centre and London Irish Centre are keeping an eye on future generations’ needs too
The Republic needs to start listening, young SDLP members say at this weekend’s party conference
The problem is, judging by her performance in this week’s television debate, she doesn’t believe in herself
Party leader Claire Hanna calls on South to create a ‘New Ireland’ ministry
Former taoiseach says Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dropped unity objective from manifestos
The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken
Teacher, politician and Irish-language enthusiast wrote dramas that reflected on the wider politics of Northern Ireland
On his secret talks with Sinn Féin in the late 1980s, he said: “I was given the instruction just to listen but I’m afraid I did a great deal more than that”
It had been understood that they could take until 2027
Former president of Ireland spoke at launch of book on unity by the Belfast-based writer Ben Collins
Transactions have risen from €2 billion in 1998 to €15 billion last year
YouTuber could not have been more polite at a recent asylum hotel protest. Now he was snarling at me across a security barrier
Welcome murals can become greeting cards, saying: ‘You are seen, you belong, you matter’
Why are paramilitaries still a threat in Northern Ireland? More to the point, why do they still exist?
Professor Sam McConkey says many Presbyterians in the Republic favour a united Ireland
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Northerners have a vested interest in an election portrayed as seminal for the abolition of partition. But they don’t have a vote
During the 2011 general election campaign, the leaders of the three main parties debated in Irish. That can’t happen now
Party leader Claire Hanna made appeal in letter sent to Humphreys, Gavin and Connolly after close of nominations
Families of victims allege collaboration between gardaí and IRA
British-Irish framework should have dealt with ‘lingering issues of concern’, SEFF says
Monaghan folk shy away from questions about identity but a leading Orangeman is not afraid to give his verdict on Michael D Higgins
Companies increasingly using IT filters to reject job applications, conference hears
Most Protestants in North have genuine and understandable indifference about Irish presidency
Free Presbyterians are most sceptical about climate crisis facing the planet, according to survey
Celtic land of Cornwall submits a petition demanding nationhood status but gets a predictable response
Why should the Humphreys family apologise for their historical connections with the Orange tradition?
Stephen Walker’s book doesn’t attempt a deep psychological explanation, but offers a reminder of the scale of Trimble’s achievement
Former UDA member David Adams says loyalist ‘lurch to the right’ plus rise in racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland compel him to speak out
Former government minister launched campaign at Monaghan event attended by Tánaiste and former GAA president
Older working-age adults in NI are twice as likely to receive disability benefits compared to people in England
UUP leader David Trimble initially refused to take off his jacket, saying: ‘I don’t do that’
Trade NI says such an office would help greatly to deal with Windsor Framework problems and other trade issues
For five years, Paul Johnston has been the British ambassador to Ireland - soon, he will become a private citizen in Dublin
Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control
A disabled woman, her husband and daughter are living in fear of sectarian attack in what was supposed to be their dream home
UK government ‘close’ to announcing deal on legacy cases, Northern Ireland secretary says
Report examines operation of all cross-border bodies set up by the Belfast Agreement
Tánaiste to give speech to counter growing opposition in UK over European Convention on Human Rights
Northern Ireland's parties must put agendas aside and have an open discussion based on evidence
Stormont economy minster says the difficulties were further reason for British-Irish agreement
White crosses placed on bogland to signify IRA victims who were secretly buried
Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration
The British academic skewers the long campaign by the British army to promote itself ‘as a kindly force of non-partisan peacekeepers’
Peacetime armed forces of the 1680s, nuggets about the route to the War of Independence, and atrocities in the name of colonisation
Thirty years on, rugby’s professional era has gone from strength to strength, but it had plentiful doubters at the time
Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more
Philip Stephens describes the record of British political leaders with regard to Ireland as one of ‘insouciant neglect’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices