Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
On his secret talks with Sinn Féin in the late 1980s, he said: “I was given the instruction just to listen but I’m afraid I did a great deal more than that”
During the 2011 general election campaign, the leaders of the three main parties debated in Irish. That can’t happen now
L&H rescinds plans to offer Joyce medal to author due to what many regard as his offensive views on transgender issues
Participants will undoubtedly focus on the presidential election campaign, which is a short-term diversion from long-standing and worsening social issues
Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance
The unions have over 86,000 members between them. If they stopped working, the strike would soon end
An iron response to Israel’s war crimes will not come from America. Britain and and EU member states are also compromised
Ireland’s memory of Éamon de Valera is complicated by many factors. Diarmaid Ferriter assesses the competing perspectives
Candidates may mean well in vowing to act on big social issues, but the reality of being president is different
Much has changed since partition ‘marooned’ Northern nationalists, but much has stayed the same
Early 20th century republicans revered his contemporary critics but their grandparents lived through the era of O’Connell as ‘the Liberator’ and champion of Catholic emancipation
The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”
Moygashel fire is bitterly ironic given how central the migrant experience is to Ulster’s history
Presidential elections generate an acute interest in who and what we would like to symbolise our Republic
There’s an opportunity to turn it into a building that can generate pride, and improve the perception of a space widely regarded as deficient and devoid of imagination
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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