Common Ground

The flax plant might be bland and its symbolism trite, but the same could be said of the Tricolour

Companies are increasingly wary of hiring cross-Border workers because of tax, pension and payroll issues, report warns

The poet was always good, and the more Mahon the better, but it’s possible the best came first

Grave in the village of Annyalla in Co Monaghan exhumed by team of experts searching for ‘disappeared’ victim Joe Lynskey

Voters are not talking about Irish unity, but an increasing number of politicians are convinced issue will occupy more time in years ahead

Debating national identities will require ‘all of us to be much more upfront’ about this thorny question

Barnaby Sandow recently moved to Ireland from England with his wife, Gwendoline

The party, rocked by fallout from child sex offences against former press officer Michael McMonagle, is facing internal calls to professionalise and shed its siege mentality

A younger generation of Protestants ‘are flocking away from the church’ yet ‘becoming more spiritual’

Sinn Féin manifesto's bizarre plans for an investigation into RTÉ’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza are part of a worrying pattern

Mary Lou McDonald outlines how a government led by the party would prioritise a united Ireland

The group has two politicians among its membership, though they generally tend to leave politics at the door

New rules introduced by the UK government bring a quarter of farms back within inheritance tax, after three decades of being fully exempt. They’re right to be annoyed, but sympathy is waning

Sinn Féin’s appeal to the electorate is rooted in our republicanism. We have a clear plan to bring about Irish unity

London’s Museum of the Home has a popular Irish rooms exhibit inside, and an unpopular statue outside

Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture Nights

A new book charts the involvement of the county’s men in the first World War and the disillusionment faced by those who came back

The Derry man is a lightning rod for the usual suspects’ criticism but his courageous refusal to wear the poppy, given his background, is entirely understandable

US-based attorney said it came to his attention after filing report that he had answered the question incorrectly

Irishness an abiding theme throughout US service marked by haunting lament from lone piper

Television review: Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe book retraces abduction and murder of Jean McConville and experiences of IRA bomber Dolours Price

What passes for debate on a united Ireland is endlessly derailed by absurd claims from activists, academics and politicians. At least Fianna Fáil has now begun putting flesh on the bones of its plans

Sinn Féin president criticises the ‘Free State establishment’ for raising IRA actions with people who were not born or were children during the Troubles

Histories of the United Irishmen, Elizabeth Bown and George Egerton, Donegal visionary John Gwyn, Abbey of Carryke in Co Down, and songs of Clare

Maynooth Community Church is among those bucking the trend of decline in church membership, boosting its congregation with people of faith from overseas

Collins supported a policy on non-cooperation

John Bruton’s work on Northern Ireland ‘has been forgotten’, says ex-minister, as author suggests Ahern should be ‘a little bit more generous’ to others

The DUP gives the impression of modernising at minimum speed, while being constantly tempted by conservative culture-war positions

Survey finds Windsor Framework rules, under which the North continues to follow some EU laws on goods, backed by majority in North as Assembly vote looms

The first and only president of Ireland to die in office

Northern nationalists felt abandoned by process

Shane Kenny says the then taoiseach never received the credit due for his role leading up to the Belfast Agreement

This year marks the centenary of the 1924–5 Irish Boundary Commission

Robert Jenrick’s suggestion that former colonies ‘owe a debt of gratitude’ to the British empire is one of the more robust responses to reparations debate

Northern Ireland Corrymeela group said it is ‘deeply concerned’ at the censuring of Dublin minister Rev Dr Katherine Meyer

Under-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United Kingdom

Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers

Drama bigs up Adams-Trimble encounter; Saoirse Ronan gets a knock-back; buskers object to Grafton Street development; and Sabina Higgins takes on a woolly role

A trip to the island of Inishbofin sees women from the North and South take part in Birds of a Feather, a Shared Island initiative

Drop in Irish SME trade with Britain ‘depressing’, British minister tells conference