Ken Reid obituary: Journalist who covered Northern Ireland from war to peace
Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody
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‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioning
Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers
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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The fall of Ian Paisley junior and the house of Paisley
Jim Allister ousted Ian junior, 54 years after Ian senior had won the North Antrim seat
Starmer win offers Anglo-Irish relations ‘reset’
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
Stephen Grimason obituary: First journalist to get a copy of Belfast Agreement
‘I believe I was given the document to nudge [the agreement] over the line,’ he later said
‘After a few thumps, they let go of me’: Veteran editor on covering the North from Troubles to today
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
Jeffrey Donaldson, at the heart of Northern Irish politics for nearly 40 years
From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades
Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie: recollections of a passing era
Reporter looks back on a lifetime’s work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Eamonn Mallie: ‘Emma Little-Pengelly is much more cross-culturally aware than any DUP people I know’
Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland
John Bruton’s blog is a treasure trove of wisdom, decency, good humour and the odd rebuke
Late Taoiseach wondered why the Irish reaction to a challenge to the consensus was to look for ulterior motives
Peace process has taught politicians how to grow tribal vote through stubbornness
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
Gavin Esler on British politics: ‘We’ve got a lot of fairly rotten people in parliament’
The former BBC journalist on working in Belfast in the 1970s, why unionist pessimism is justified, and the lack of ‘good chaps’ in Westminster
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