Cross-Border worker numbers falling because of tax rulesCompanies ‘appear to be struggling’ to comply with rules, especially with remote working, study findsThu Nov 28 2024 - 07:37
One Border, two systems, endless complications: ‘My NI colleagues work from home while I am forced to commute to an empty office’Companies are increasingly wary of hiring cross-Border workers because of tax, pension and payroll issues, report warnsThu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00
Irish unity quietly becoming more significant for Dáil partiesVoters are not talking about Irish unity, but an increasing number of politicians are convinced issue will occupy more time in years aheadWed Nov 27 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin pledges unity referendums can happen by 2030Mary Lou McDonald outlines how a government led by the party would prioritise a united IrelandFri Nov 22 2024 - 19:20
Monaghan Men’s Shed: ‘The HSE has told us that we have kept people out of the hospitals’The group has two politicians among its membership, though they generally tend to leave politics at the doorFri Nov 22 2024 - 06:00
Bertie Ahern accused of creating ‘mythology’ surrounding role in peace processJohn Bruton’s work on Northern Ireland ‘has been forgotten’, says ex-minister, as author suggests Ahern should be ‘a little bit more generous’ to othersSat Nov 09 2024 - 14:24
Michael McMonagle, former Sinn Féin press officer, jailed for nine months for child sexual offences PSNI Detective Chief Superintendent issues a warning to paedophiles and vigilantes seeking to hunt themFri Nov 08 2024 - 12:05
John Bruton’s former adviser says history of the peace process needs to be rewrittenShane Kenny says the then taoiseach never received the credit due for his role leading up to the Belfast AgreementMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to voteUnder-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United KingdomTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioningFormer Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakersSun Oct 27 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s reputation enhanced by stance on Gaza, says Mary RobinsonFormer president says Israel being led ‘by a bad government at the moment'Thu Oct 24 2024 - 21:13
British-Irish traders ‘buried in bureaucracy after Brexit’Drop in Irish SME trade with Britain ‘depressing’, British minister tells conferenceThu Oct 24 2024 - 18:26
Oscar winner David Puttnam says film production can play role in ‘shared’ IrelandAcclaimed producer says governments North and South should invest in cross-Border culture to build mutual understandingWed Oct 23 2024 - 19:00
Four-fifths of Northern Irish households receive more in benefits than they pay in taxAverage Southern household pays three times more taxFri Oct 18 2024 - 00:01
Ireland will have to decide what neutrality means, says former head of security inquiryIreland’s geographical location has been enough to offer security over recent decades, but ‘the world is changing’Tue Oct 15 2024 - 19:00
Sinn Féin’s old rules of secrecy will no longer do amid fresh controversySinn Féin figures did not know what to say about the party’s handling of job references for a former official now convicted of a child sex offence, but it was the issue they couldn’t escapeSun Oct 13 2024 - 07:02
Thirty years on from ceasefire, loyalist communities remain ignored, poor and threatened from within‘People try to make distinctions between a good paramilitary and a bad paramilitary. A good paramilitary might be somebody who sells coke on a Saturday night. A bad paramilitary would be somebody who’s dealing heroin’Sat Oct 12 2024 - 06:00
Telling the story of an IRA hunger-striker: ‘What’s on stage is the reality: death, brutality, viciousness’Staging the Martin Hurson Story has caused disquiet in parts of the North. Its aim is not to glorify, says its writerSat Oct 12 2024 - 05:15
Jon Sopel on the madness of post-Brexit Britain: ‘I think we’ve done some stupid sh*t’ The BBC correspondent turned award-winning podcaster has published a new book, Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making SenseSun Oct 06 2024 - 18:02
Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder: a massacre intended to strike fear into the hearts of CatholicsIn a new book Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, a massacre whose repercussions continue to be feltSun Oct 06 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s corporation tax system ‘not sustainable’, says Bertie AhernAhern claims Trump’s economic policies ‘are a threat to everything built in Ireland in my lifetime’Sat Oct 05 2024 - 06:00
David Lammy becomes first British foreign secretary to visit Dublin for seven yearsSparse detail of talks emerges after meeting with Micheál Martin but countries vow to deepen ‘key strategic links’Thu Oct 03 2024 - 18:54
Sinn Féin plans to move Northern Ireland remit out of DFA in governmentParty will immediately begin ‘structured and detailed planning towards Irish unity’ if elected to office, ardfheis toldSat Sept 28 2024 - 16:19
Has Leo Varadkar really found his ‘inner Shinner’ with Irish unity comments?Give me a Crash Course in ... the former taoiseach reigniting the debate about a united IrelandSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
‘This is the opportunity for people to tell their story in full’: People held in institutions in Northern Ireland urged to come forwardAn independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearbyFri Sept 27 2024 - 19:00
Varadkar says immigration numbers have risen too quickly in IrelandFormer taoiseach warns against populism and prejudice but concedes immigration a challenge for Irish societyFri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
‘No reason why Dáil couldn’t sit for a time in Stormont,’ says VaradkarFormer taoiseach calls for all parties to make pledge on Irish unityThu Sept 26 2024 - 13:15
Leo Varadkar: ‘All trends point towards Irish unification in the next few decades’Former taoiseach believes a New Ireland Forum should be established to plan the journey to Irish unityThu Sept 26 2024 - 06:00
‘When Ministers get together, they do work as politicians’: North-South council fostering all-island co-operation Ireland’s Ambassador to London believes recent council meetings have been ‘probably the best’ for 20 yearsTue Sept 24 2024 - 18:53
Head of Troubles legacy body condemns ‘unwarranted attacks’ on its independenceCourt of Appeal judgment ‘should be respected by all’, says ICRIR’s Declan MorganTue Sept 24 2024 - 06:00
From Big Tom to John McGahern: New digital archive celebrates Border’s artistic legacyIreland’s Border Culture records work of artists living along the Border from 1921 until todaySun Sept 22 2024 - 09:45
Tax and welfare systems should be reformed to encourage cross-Border working, young people’s forum hearsThe Shared Island Youth Forum has also called for public service jobs to be advertised across the island of Ireland to encourage travel by young peopleFri Sept 20 2024 - 20:51
‘The system isn’t working’: one in three people in Northern Ireland on a medical treatment waiting listNearly half of all NHS patients in North waiting over year for operation compared with just 4% in England, says NI SecretaryThu Sept 19 2024 - 20:36
UK press regulator rejects complaint by NI local authority against the Impartial ReporterFermanagh and Omagh council angered by articles on its decision to offer meals to councillors attending meetingsThu Sept 19 2024 - 08:00
London’s abandonment of plans to fund Casement Park revival will come as no surpriseWithout the Euro 2028 target, a difficult job for the GAA becomes even more difficultSat Sept 14 2024 - 14:51
Cross-Border co-operation to ensure mother and baby home records in North can be foundIssue featured during meeting of North South Ministerial Council in Dublin, the second in less than four monthsFri Sept 13 2024 - 18:10
Twenty five years on, there are calls for more North/South co-operationBertie Ahern calls for an end to prevarication and caution - ‘Get on with it’ he saysFri Sept 13 2024 - 06:00
Cities need to be run in new ways, and not just by officials, or councillors, says former British mayorVoters must take more ‘than 10 seconds’ of interest in politics, says Marvin Rees, or live with the consequencesTue Sept 10 2024 - 05:32
Bertie Ahern calls for end to ‘paranoia’ over North-South co-operationFormer taoiseach says joint work could be done informally outside of institutions created as a result of Belfast AgreementMon Sept 09 2024 - 21:34
‘From friction to friendship’: Harris, Starmer pledge Anglo-Irish resetThe two leaders vow to end Brexit discord ahead of talks in Farmleigh at the weekendSat Sept 07 2024 - 05:00
‘The trajectory is very good’: can Simon Harris and Keir Starmer cleanse the Anglo-Irish palate?Starmer’s first visit to Ireland since becoming UK prime minister is another opportunity to strengthen ties frayed by the nadir of the Truss-Johnson era and Dublin’s sometimes sharp toneFri Sept 06 2024 - 15:00
Stormont Executive guilty of ‘enormous shortcomings’, warns reportNorthern Ireland facing ‘persistent challenges’ in all public services with ‘little evidence of proper plans to take these on’ being shown by Stormont, warns reportMon Sept 02 2024 - 00:01
Ahern ‘worried’ for years that IRA ceasefire would break downFormer taoiseach speaks of obstacles to peace on 30th anniversary of IRA’s initial cessation of violenceSat Aug 31 2024 - 16:23
Idea of Sinn Féin in Áras should not impede voting rights, says CoveneyFormer minister for foreign affairs strongly backs exension of franchise in presidential elections to Irish people overseasSat Aug 31 2024 - 15:41
Enda Kenny rules out Áras an Uachtaráin run in 2025Former Taoiseach (73) will not seek Fine Gael nomination as Michael D Higgins’ second term comes to an endFri Aug 30 2024 - 21:53
Public faces State bureaucracy designed ‘around everyone but themselves’, Taoiseach saysSimon Harris tells Kennedy Summer School he has low tolerance of bureaucratic reasons for delay or inactionFri Aug 30 2024 - 21:06
Ireland faces a ‘bloody cold, bloody wet’ future unless action on climate speeds up, warns RyanScientists increasingly concerned Atlantic current could shift, drastically changing climate in northern EuropeFri Aug 30 2024 - 16:41
London wants Troubles legacy case changes to be accepted by Dublin and North’s political parties, says ambassadorOfficials met on Thursday to ‘find solutions’ to outstanding issues as Labour government brings new approach, Paul Johnson saysThu Aug 29 2024 - 20:30
Thirty years after the ceasefire, former IRA members believe the battle of history is being wonThree republicans who served time during the Troubles have no regrets about the long IRA campaign of violenceSat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
Spycatcher may have one final chapterAuthor Tim Tate returns to battle with the Cabinet Office over the release of secret files; perhaps more fodder for the paperback editionFri Aug 23 2024 - 16:18
