Gender based violence requires ‘island-wide lens’, Taoiseach tells Belfast audience
Micheál Martin says people in the Republic have ‘nowhere near the level of engagement with the North’ as before
David Trimble
At the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, we sensed we were witnessing a historic event
While the importance of the Anglo Irish Agreement is sometimes overlooked, it was the foundation on which all subsequent progress has been based
David Trimble: Peacemaker – A man easy to lampoon, but courageous and willing to take risks
Stephen Walker’s book doesn’t attempt a deep psychological explanation, but offers a reminder of the scale of Trimble’s achievement
Belfast Agreement referendum vote ‘saved’ by U2’s concert, new book says
UUP leader David Trimble initially refused to take off his jacket, saying: ‘I don’t do that’
Rev Martin Smyth obituary: Staunchly anti-agreement former Ulster Unionist MP and Orange Order leader
He tried to implicate Charles Haughey in an IRA gun-running plot during the 1980s
Mark Durkan: There’s a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ about united Ireland
Former SDLP leader Mark Durkan says there is a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ surrounding the options for constitutional change
‘We’ll see’: Bertie Ahern coy on presidential ambitions as he receives award at Trinity College Dublin
Former taoiseach honoured by university’s Law Society for contribution to building peace in Ireland
Ken Reid obituary: Journalist who covered Northern Ireland from war to peace
Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody
Assembly elections postponement ‘the biggest single setback in years’, Sinn Féin warned
The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair
Trimble and Mallon feared DUP ministers would not honour Executive confidentiality
Peter Robinson and Nigel Dodds refused to attend Executive meetings due to objections to SF’s McGuinness and de Brún
Trimble blocked Tourism Ireland campaign in Britain, records show
Unionist leader objected to Britain being designated part of ‘overseas’ market
From Blair and Clinton to civil servants in the shadows, archive papers reveal scale of peace push
IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents
What Gerry Adams really said to David Trimble in the loo during peace talks
Drama bigs up Adams-Trimble encounter; Saoirse Ronan gets a knock-back; buskers object to Grafton Street development; and Sabina Higgins takes on a woolly role
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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