Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Here’s what you need to do if you want to understand a certain slice of the America
Jim Allister ousted Ian junior, 54 years after Ian senior had won the North Antrim seat
Labour is preparing for power after the UK election saw the Tories swept out of office while in Dublin, officials are hoping for improved relations with our neighbour
‘I believe I was given the document to nudge [the agreement] over the line,’ he later said
Noel Doran singles out the murder of Patrick Kielty’s father in 1988 in influencing his outlook as editor of Irish News for 25 years
From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades
Reporter looks back on a lifetime’s work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland
Late Taoiseach wondered why the Irish reaction to a challenge to the consensus was to look for ulterior motives
Newly released State papers shed light on the years immediately after the Belfast Agreement, so much of which is still in dispute or open to interpretation
The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in Westminster
The contemporary Irish rugby team can define its identity in its own way, regardless of the songs being sung
Wallace Thompson expresses willingness to talk to groups such as the civic pro-unity organisation Ireland’s Future
Hugh Linehan: Gene Simmons and Nick Cave represent two very different strands of musical conservatism
North Antrim MP joked that bassist was planning ‘a private concert as a DUP fundraiser’
Aaron Edwards: Although my recollections of the angry confrontation during the marching season in 2001 emphasise conflict, behind the scenes it was a different matter
Unionists were wavering and the future uncertain when Stephen Grimason revealed the deal on Good Friday 1998
Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum
Claire Byrne’s hosts new quiz show Ireland Smartest, Paul Mescal up for another acting prize at the Olivier Awards, Lily Allen’s TV acting debut in Dreamland and the final of Home of the Year
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and former president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, also weighed in on Thursday
Executive must be formed by October 28th to avoid new poll, Chris Heaton-Harris says
UUP leader took a difficult path and in the end, even unionism’s most entrenched enemies of change adopted his approach
Sinn Féin vice-president meeting with Conservative MPs in Westminster
Joint authority between two governments barely speaking is an absurdity
Catholic civilians bore brunt of retaliations for ongoing IRA assassinations
Assembly elections will reveal if relentlessly negative messaging can be turned into votes
Move follows emergence of photograph of Boris Johnson near sparkling wine
‘It’s right we allow MLAs time and space to pass legislation,’ Brandon Lewis says
Donald Clarke: Even Ian Paisley saw no contradiction in being both British and Irish
Analysis: Allister described Tweed as ‘larger than life’ and said he had been ‘saddened’ to learn of death
Child abuser and former rugby international died in motorbike crash in Antrim last month
Elsewhere this week, Bertie Ahern’s comments on the North go completely south
David Frost spent two days in Belfast meeting political leaders and business leaders
Singer criticised North’s Minister of Health over his response to Covid-19 on stage
London Letter: ECJ oversight issue remains but EU poised for Britain’s possible next step
Newton Emerson: Out of the pan-unionism into the fire for desperate DUP
Fraught relationship between science and religion is a fairly recent import from the US
Former BBC journalist James Helm on a special bond with Ireland that has sustained his family through tragedy and change
Easing rules ‘a positive direction’ but ‘many questions need to be answered’, singer says
Leader and sole MLA Jim Allister presents as the man whose job it is to ‘hold the DUP to account’
Parties in the North criticise DUP MP for saying Minister for Health is dangerous
MP chanted on stage with singer Van Morrison that ‘Robin Swann is very dangerous’
Doctor who oversaw the care of republican prisoners during the Troubles later died by suicide
DUP leader needs to get a grip on party’s message, morale and discipline
Though no household name, DUP members were unsurprised the Poots loyalist was in the frame
The North has changed dramatically, and unionism, instead of celebrating the centenary of the foundation of the Northern Irish state it used to dominate, is in crisis
Politicians, civic leaders and public figures on the Ireland they want to see in next 100 years
Minister of agriculture Edwin Poots is viewed as most likely successor to Arlene Foster
First Minister’s successor must tread a delicate line between party’s different factions
An Irishman’s Diary
Community workers say riots sparked by unionism’s loss of control and the manipulation of working-class youths not politics
Lewis tells MPs he will look to convene a meeting at an ‘appropriate time’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
