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
Northern secretary Douglas Hurd faced criticism from Catholic priests during private dinnerClerics condemned the behaviour of the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Royal Ulster ConstabularyThu Aug 22 2024 - 10:00
South Armagh farmers dominated compensation list over animals allegedly harmed by British soldiers’ actionsMore than £10 million was paid in compensation by the UK government to farmers in South Armagh from April 1996 to March 1998Thu Aug 22 2024 - 08:00
Holy Cross school crisis has left a long shadow over Northern Ireland A protest by Protestant loyalists of a Catholic primary school in Belfast dominated international headlines about Northern Ireland in 2001 but its shadow continued for long afterThu Aug 22 2024 - 06:00
Footballer Neil Lennon showed ‘remarkable courage’ after sectarian abuse, said unionist ministerGlasgow Celtic player Neil Lennon, a Catholic, withdrew from the Northern Ireland team in 2002 after a death threat was received against himThu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Irish Border could not be sealed, Stormont ministers told during 2001 foot-and-mouth crisisNewly released state papers in Northern Ireland reveal private concerns among ministers about the spread of the contagious disease and its impact on food exportsThu Aug 22 2024 - 02:00
Pregnant women in parts of Belfast declined antenatal care due to religion, report foundDraft 2001 study on cost of polarisation in Northern Ireland found three decades of sectarian strife created ‘two distinct and separate communities’Thu Aug 22 2024 - 00:01
Doug Beattie steps down as UUP leader due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ with party officersThe Upper Bann Assembly member said leading the Ulster Unionist Party had been a ‘lonely’ experience at timesMon Aug 19 2024 - 19:54
Belfast riots were ‘intolerable’ and the actions of racists, says Keir Starmer British prime minister meets injured PSNI officers during a visit to the cityMon Aug 19 2024 - 18:56
Man who tried to kill Hitler remembered by Irish relativesUCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plotSun Aug 11 2024 - 15:22
Team Ireland or Team GB? For Northern Irish Olympians, there’s no identity crisisThe middle ground in Northern Ireland can ‘get their heads around’ multiple identities, says former rugby international Trevor RinglandSun Aug 11 2024 - 12:30
Israel must face boycotts, human rights lawyer saysSelf defence gives ‘blank cheque’ to countries to attack others inside UN rules, Prof Conor Gearty saysSun Aug 11 2024 - 12:07
