Common Ground

Most companies on Ireland do first exports across Border

Keir Starmer has been advised to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, which could be paid for by slashing social welfare

Charlie Flanagan describes tribute as ‘nauseating’

Some 92 hereditary peers’ seats will be abolished under legislation UK’s Labour government pledges to push through

Families have different views on the Omagh inquiry, but what they all hold sacred is the need for their loved ones’ stories to be heard

Unionists are ‘allowing republicans/nationalists to get inside our heads’ and control narrative on Irish unity being ‘inevitable’

Both have the least positive views on immigration of any two groups of party voters on the island

Tánaiste Simon Harris’s suggestion in Stormont recently that unification is ‘not a priority’ for him surprised few people

Most voters, North and South, say British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference should remain in place

Unification could sever North’s ties to Nato and Commonwealth, but Belfast Agreement provides for maintaining British–Irish links

SF voters in South resemble Northern unionists in attitudes to immigration

Northern unionists are far more likely to be anti-immigration compared with their nationalist counterparts, while southern nationalists sit somewhere in between

Most identify as British and would find Irish unity ‘almost impossible to accept’

Unity vote: Asked what would be their emotional response to a referendum which voted for unity, 27 per cent of Protestant voters in the North said they would hate it “extremely” or very much. Photograph: Getty

Expectations of positive feelings are more prevalent than negative ones

More than a third of voters in South say it is extremely important to plan for a possible united Ireland

Voters in Republic at odds with those in North who say a united Ireland should belong to both organisations

North’s Protestants strongly favour membership of the Europe-North America military alliance in event of Irish unity

The book is at its most interesting when Durkan is quizzed about John Hume and what his predecessor had been trying to achieve

In the England I live in, I cling on to my Irishness more tightly than I might otherwise

Surveys and deliberative forums examine the state of public opinion in the Republic and Northern Ireland

Northern Protestants remain overwhelmingly against unity but show growing losers' consent

While unity vote would be soundly defeated in North a growing number of unionists support the holding of a border poll

A groundbreaking study has detailed the individual, social and economic costs of adverse childhood experiences - but also has indications of hope

Four or more adverse childhood experiences – a threshold more likely to lead to poorer health and educational outcomes – reported by 17.6% of people surveyed

Critics say there is an urgent need to overhaul how we teach Irish following a century of failure

Former SDLP leader Mark Durkan says there is a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ surrounding the options for constitutional change

The Irish novelist on taking instruction from Vincent Browne, finding his way in fiction as a young man and coming to understand that the best writing has an inherent musicality

There are worse fates for the agreement than fading into irrelevance, but it would be dangerous not to acknowledge this is happening

Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?

Former taoiseach honoured by university’s Law Society for contribution to building peace in Ireland

Bereaved families and survivors of 1998 atrocity gather at the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, as public inquiry opens

The good, the bad and the ugly parts of studying English through Irish eyes at Oxford

Goodbody reports states that risks to the Irish economy from the new Trump administration were ‘skewed to the downside, including tariffs and corporate tax changes’

President and fellow writers celebrate the legacy of one of Ireland’s finest poets

Compounding the unionist party’s agony, it requested the brake over a matter so apparently trivial - font sizes on labels for chemical products - that it sounds like a satirical joke

English nationalism has rarely been more interested in Ireland

The constitutional bedrock for the exercise of the executive power of the State

DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’

Composer Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast, then grew up in south Wales. His Irishness has become increasingly important to his identity