Northern Ireland

Fill your 2025 with these spectacles, from the seabirds of Rathlin Island to the rutting red deer of Killarney and the murmurations of Westmeath

Life-sized statue of Gallagher is located outside Ulster Hall, a venue he played regularly

Forecaster predicts sub-zero temperatures and ‘very disruptive and impactful’ over coming weekend

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 island

Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody

Opinion: It is time for loyalists to engage with debates about the future and to shape them in ways which contradict the image of resistance and intransigence

The incident happened on the Low Road in Killeavy on Thursday

Belfast High Court judge had found UK government remains in breach of a human rights duty to investigate the full extent of state collusion in the May 1997 murder

Five-year project will stage each play in a setting relevant to its theme and in the season it was set

Winnowburn is the first – and so far, only – verified Woodland Carbon Code project in Northern Ireland, the least wooded part of the UK

Some 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 more

When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert

Regarded as a shoo-in for the Seanad post, the current economy minister will quit his job in the Assembly once elected

Previous US presidents had not been prepared to risk relations with UK by involvement in Northern Ireland but Carter did not accept that position

Surprise announcement would see Economy Minister depart from post if elected

Birmingham Six spent almost two decades in prison for pub bombings before their convictions were quashed in 1991

Ex-Irish diplomat credits former US president with bringing balance to Irish-British relations through change in approach

The Wicklow-born priest did not want to move because news of the threat would scare local children

Blair-era pledge of giving ‘my loyalty to the United Kingdom’ faced concerns in wake of Belfast Agreement

UDA factional feud had impact in strongly loyalist area at same time as north Belfast Catholic children faced attack

State records show controversial plan for paramilitary trials had backing in UK cabinet before Thatcher turned it down

The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair

British NI minister noted ‘legitimate concerns’ that released prisoners could end up teaching children of their victims

New taoiseach caused concern as IRA grappled with ceasefire and decommissioning decisions, papers show

NI official found proposal ‘most attractive’ for tourism but ‘cannot see money being available for this’ in 1975

IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries were able to ‘cream off’ millions through extortion rackets

Kidnapping of dissident Tohill in 2004 heightened tensions, with McDowell comparing Sinn Féin to Nazis

While the NHS as a whole in the UK falls down the world league of health systems, here in the North we are in a league of our own – and it isn’t a very good one

Residents of Dunloy village, north Antrim, suffered sectarian abuse and oppressive policing

Unionist leader objected to Britain being designated part of ‘overseas’ market

Bill Clinton overruled objections to let Gerry Adams fundraise – and to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in White House

Former House of Commons speaker was a ‘Welsh Uncle Tom’, Foreign Affairs note records

Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she and her mother Gisèle rebuilt their lives, are also due out

Deputy leader Seamus Mallon warned against ‘hand-holding’ of Sinn Féin in 1995

Irish officials suspicious of ‘malign mandarins’ encouraging ‘King Rat’ Billy Wright

Post-pandemic remote working, cheaper rents and a lower cost of living are among the reasons for Southern-based workers to rent or buy in the town

Books by Elias Canetti, Kirsten Miller, Angeline King, Noel Russell, Ben Macintyre and Robert Schmuhl

Issue raised over possible elevation of well-regarded lawyer Ronnie Appleton to bench

Alleged attempt to put weed killer in English water supplies was taken seriously

IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents