Common Ground

UK prime minister and Labour leader is running out of options

Yesterday marked the start of strict enforcement when boarding transport to the UK, hence Aer Lingus requiring passports on all flights to Britain

Increasing sectarian attacks due to polarisation on ‘identity and sovereignty’ issues

Linking Warrenpoint in south Down to Omeath in north Louth, bridge is expected to have transformative effect

Most British historians have ‘no interest’ in Ireland, says academic as Cambridge announces new Anglo-Irish post

The estate, which runs alongside the Border in Co Monaghan, has borne the Leslie name for 400 years and is ‘part and parcel of the community’

Government’s funding of modern Irish history chair at Cambridge a signal of belief in importance of independent scholarship, Micheál Martin says

Jon Burrows’s comparison between Bloody Sunday and Ireland’s failure to extradite terrorists will have offended nationalists and left unionists bemused

Surveys turn everything into a binary choice when understanding for the beliefs of others is needed

Courage and statesmanship brought about an Irish state. Those qualities will be needed again if the North is to vote for unity

Arriving from India two decades ago, Ramm Goud Sama joined St Johnston Cricket Club, then cofounded Letterkenny Cricket Club

Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?

Shortlist ‘highlights the depth of analysis brought to bear on various aspects of recent Irish history’, says Prof Roy Foster

Russian aggression has raised the possibility of Ireland becoming strategically important to London

Jon Burrows criticises ‘double standard on legacy’, but stresses respect and good relationships

‘Walk around and see the contribution of immigrants,’ Irish in Britain tells Manchester United co-owner

He badly mishandled the abortion referendum in 1983 and failed to oversee the legalisation of divorce in 1986, but what he always had was a vision

People who were married, widowed or divorced as well as those who took time out to care for family among those affected

The Constitution, designed to achieve unity, ‘may ultimately complicate that ambition’, not ‘because it was weak and inflexible’ but ‘rather because it was sufficiently flexible and strong’

Former British special forces soldiers reject allegations the regiment was central to a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy during the Troubles

Michael Hopkins was let down by the Irish system as a child and the British system as an elderly bachelor. Then he met a photographer at a bus stop

It has been helpful for Ireland, too. But Morgan McSweeney’s reign could be coming to screeching halt

The speed at which Queen’s severed ties with its former chancellor has drawn support - and criticism

Cross-Border cost differences far from clear but questions are being asked of State’s regulator

Six year after leaving the EU, the UK is navigating a delicate balancing act on trade and diplomatic ties with Brussels, as well as Washington and Beijing

The implication that Brexit has been a setback for unity runs counter to received wisdom, but it makes sense

Belfast-based think tank Pivotal says Northern Ireland’s ministers seem to be operating individually, not collectively

The Belfast cultural institution began life in 1951, when the indomitable Mary O’Malley formed Lyric Players Theatre

The Cavan-born author on new novel Sister Wake, his Doctor Who books and the ‘highest compliment’ he gets from young readers

Commons approves remedies as legislation on immunity for Troubles-era killings breaches human rights

George Hamilton tells Westminster how loyalists are behaving in ‘same coercive, controlling way’

Study from Ulster University Economic Policy Centre shows Belfast now well ahead of other regions economically

I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent, says Jacqueline O’Donovan

Residents say inadequate infrastructure leaves the city badly prepared for population growth

Rite & Reason: Angry members of the faithful point the finger of blame at a theologically hardline group of men

Historian disputes Minister’s assertion that withdrawal of file was ‘normal’

Division on identity pollutes sport again, this time it is on North’s Commonwealth Games team’s flag

Model could follow Swedish city, which is home to commuters who work in nearby Danish capital

A new house that might sell for €400,000 in Mullingar would be €150,000 cheaper north of the Border

InterTradeIreland offers assistance, including up to €21,500 to put a salesperson on the ground in the other jurisdiction for a year