Common Ground

Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm

David McCullagh opens up an issue which remains instructive in many ways. This deserves wide readership and debate

Roots celebrated - and a few slaps thrown - as Ireland and Scotland face off in Inverness

Individual tailored partnership programme between Ireland and Nato is under ‘threat’, Jock Stirrup warns

Guarantees are required, and a firm idea of what will be voted on. Enough is known to commence deliberations on timing

Fine Gael campaign team rejected advice to promote candidate’s background as unique selling point

Founded in west Belfast by Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the festival now attracts 25,000 visitors each year

Owen talks about her marriage to a Galwegian, the Irish phrases that were common in her Cumbrian childhood, and her daunting Irish-speaking debut with Michael D Higgins

Lawyer Michael Farrell represented transgender woman Lydia Foy after earning his stripes during the Troubles in the North

FG candidate says unionist asked ‘if that’s what they put you through, Heather, what hope have the rest of us?’

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride demonstrate the importance of free and reasoned deliberation

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK

Military alliance should carry out operations in Irish seas even if Dublin objects, says Falklands veteran

Concessions will have to be made if a new nation is to be constructed that moves beyond past tensions

Former Northern editor of The Irish Times was known for his coverage of the Troubles

The PSNI describes it as ‘hate-motivated criminal damage’, while a TUV member calls it ‘probably the most predictable crime in Northern Ireland’

Rite & Reason: It is frequently forgotten that a founder of the United Irishmen, and a father of republicanism on this island, was Presbyterian Henry Joy McCracken

Member of Northern Ireland legacy commission said Republic must do more to properly address the past

Bradley had to handle episodes such as the security of ballot boxes overnight before a count, with key figures such as Rev Ian Paisley demanding DUP oversight

Skills came into particularly sharp focus during the Falklands crisis

Trisha Ziff allows the former Sinn Féin president to reflect on his life and times in a documentary filmed over five years

Some pro-unity campaigners are nationalists, but they are not republicans

A row over Irish language signs in a leafy part of east Belfast taps into deeper divisions

Labour’s implosion and the rise of Reform UK has gifted the party a clear path back to power in next May’s Holyrood elections

Lord Tom Elliott noted that Omagh bomb victims had called for parallel inquiry in the Republic

Britain will protect its own skies first, chair of Latvian parliament’s foreign affairs committee says

Cables serving two countries should be mapped, according to new report

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs addresses danger at meeting of British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly

‘Absolute imperative’ to expand European Union’s defensive capacity, says Martin Fraser

Students in North should be encouraged to go south for university, Minister says

We take a look at some of the major payments - pension, unemployment and child benefit

Mike Nesbitt warns ‘biggest threat’ to NI remaining part of UK is English nationalism

If Alliance, SDLP and UUP cannot offer alternative to Sinn Féin-DUP, it is hard to see what they are for

The former Sinn Féin and DUP MPs have made a BBC Northern Ireland podcast on the thorny subject

Daily flights between the two cities were stopped in 2011 in the wake of the economic crash

Book moves rather disconcertingly from reflections on author’s musical life to aftermath of murderous episode in 1975

Irish Cultural Centre and London Irish Centre are keeping an eye on future generations’ needs too

The Republic needs to start listening, young SDLP members say at this weekend’s party conference

The problem is, judging by her performance in this week’s television debate, she doesn’t believe in herself