Sinn Féin

What’s in Fine Gael’s plan for a united Ireland?

Simon Harris promised a ‘blueprint for a unified island’ but the extent to which Fine Gael’s leadership has been keeping details of a key document under wraps has caused irritation

How Garvaghy Road became a new-generation civil rights campaign and a win for nationalism

Unionism seems determined to cannibalise itself – a consequence of an Orange Order parade that was supposed to be a victory

Ray McAdam tipped to win Seanad byelection as rival fails to get Sinn Féin backing

Opposition vote is split between independent candidates Maeve O’Rourke and Caitlín Ní Bhroin

Grandfather offers to give up dialysis so non-verbal grandson can get speech therapy

Sinn Féin TD tells Dáil he was stopped in his tracks by email from man whose heart is broken by ‘frustrated’ three-year-old boy

Aengus Ó Snodaigh says Liberty Recycling letter was forged

Sinn Féin TD accepts regulator’s criticisms of governance and oversight of trustees and directors

Aengus Ó Snodaigh bid for Dáil statement not accepted, Sinn Féin says

Ceann Comhairle felt unable to accommodate request from chairman of Liberty Recycling

Forgers sold bogus security guard training course documents, regulator says

Private Security Authority tells Oireachtas committee it revoked more than 350 licences provided to people to work as security guards

Unionism splinters again as departure of DUP’s Carla Lockhart from party deals a blow

The DUP has reasons to be worried only six months away from elections to the Northern Assembly

Ó Snodaigh seeks Dáil time to make statement on Liberty Recycling

Ó Snodaigh, who is not under investigation himself, is the chairman of the charity that is the subject of a Garda money-laundering inquiry

Carla Lockhart quits DUP ‘with immediate effect’ over party’s response to Drumcree dispute

Upper Bann MP had urged colleagues to force First Minister Michelle O’Neill from office over the Garvaghy Road protests in Portadown

Liberty Recycling: Fine Gael asks PAC chair to summon Charities Regulator and others

Charity is under Garda investigation for alleged money laundering

Hugh Orde: Risk-taking is a skill that is sadly disappearing in modern policing

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in November, its first chief constable reflects on his time in the nascent force

‘Lots of deep thought has to go into this’: Taoiseach steps up research on Irish unity

Micheál Martin to bring proposals to Cabinet to set up body to examine issues around reunification

Michelle O’Neill claims she has been ‘blocked’ from attending event by ‘DUP stunt’

First Minister accuses Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly of backing ‘reckless and irresponsible approach’

Loyalists banned from marching through nationalist area of south Belfast

Loyal-order parades have not been permitted on the lower Ormeau Road since disorder in the area in the 1990s

Dublin charity may have been infiltrated by illegal organisation, watchdog fears

Liberty Recycling charity has bank accounts frozen as part of investigation

Jaded rhetoric and trite stereotypes about neutrality are inflaming triple lock debate

Government only has itself to blame if triple lock is wrongly conflated with neutrality

There is now serious talk about the end of the DUP

If next week’s poll shows a further fall or has the UUP still in the lead, there will be panic inside the party

Sinn Féin proposes ‘advantages’ for citizenship applicants who learn Irish

Justice spokesman Matt Carthy says fewer naturalisations would likely occur under his party’s system

More than 50% of people in NI back move to ban Orange Order parade at Drumcree

Survey finds Sinn Féin the main political beneficiary of fallout while DUP ‘remains the main party of unionism’

DUP’s tough talk on Sinn Féin exposes the bind Gavin Robinson’s party finds itself in

Despite ratcheting up tensions over Drumcree, it is clear the party has neither a plan nor the appetite to act on it

Second DUP politician calls for collapse of Stormont to force Michelle O’Neill out

Diane Forsythe, an MLA, has joined MP Carla Lockhart in urging withdrawal of party’s deputy First Minister

‘Nail in the coffin of Irish neutrality’ or global reality check? The triple lock war rages on

War of words breaks out over legal measure that requires Government, Dáil and UN approval to deploy troops abroad

Carla Lockhart’s decision highlights the internal tensions within the DUP

MP’s resignation as a party officer not ideal for leader Gavin Robinson, but a defection, and with it the loss of an MP, would be a serious blow

Carla Lockhart resigns from DUP position amid row with party leadership

MP’s move stems from differing in opinion on withdrawal of Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly from Stormont Executive

No link between healthcare staff recruitment and hospital performance, says Minister

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill compares Cork to Beaumont, where fewer patients are on trolleys

Micheál Martin was unwise to call Sinn Féin Nazi sympathisers

Fianna Fáil founder Éamon de Valera infamously conveyed his condolences on the death of Hitler

Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill attend police interview over Drumcree protests

Sinn Féin leaders interviewed as part of investigation into demonstrations that blocked Orange Order march on Portadown’s Garvaghy Road

Triple lock Bill passes Dáil vote amid Opposition anger

Government narrowly wins vote on proposed legislation removing need for UN approval of Irish troop deployments

Family of IRA victim Brian Stack get State apology for flawed Garda inquiry but still seek ‘full truth’

‘It hurts every time you see Sinn Féin representatives at a memorial for IRA men,’ says prison officer’s son

Only way to combat ‘drugs intimidation’ is to inform gardaí, Jim O’Callaghan says

Matt Carthy calls for ‘immediate, determined crackdown’ on gangs ‘terrorising communities’

Government wants HSE to cap hospital parking fee at €10 a day

Minister tells Dáil committee that health service will carry out new national review of charges

Triple lock neutrality row fuels fractious Dáil exchanges

Opposition parties raise signs with Save Neutrality message after Taoiseach and Sinn Féin leader trade political blows

Minister for Justice accused of ‘grossly unfair commentary’ over rape cases

O’Callaghan criticised for saying ‘only cases deliberately affected by withdrawal of services in Central Criminal Court yesterday were those involving allegations of rape’

Gardaí issue renewed appeal for information about murder of Paul Quinn

Family of 21-year-old victim believe members of IRA carried out fatal attack in Co Monaghan in 2007

Culture wars in the North

Sinn Féin and the DUP need to park their cultural identity issues and take responsibility for running the province

Dublin council denies St Edmundsbury housing rezoning but gives green light to two other sites

Finnstown Castle and Coldcut Road locations approved after Minister instructed authorities to provide more land

Failure by Sinn Féin and DUP to agree Stormont budget ‘beyond alarming’, says NIO minister

Sarah Owen tells British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly that Northern Ireland receives £1.24 for every £1 that goes to her Luton constituency

No chaos in the courts, Jim O’Callaghan says, as legal aid dispute ramps up

Minister expresses concern that rape cases were impacted at Central Criminal Court

‘Damaging’ to claim White Paper and Citizens’ Assembly will deliver Irish unity, Taoiseach says

Fianna Fáil leader said recent events at Portadown had ‘damaged everyone’

Man and woman arrested over Waterford petrol bombing knew family that was targeted

Suspects detained as part of inquiry into attack at home that killed two adults and two children

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