Thirty years after the ceasefire, former IRA members believe the battle of history is being wonThree republicans who served time during the Troubles have no regrets about the long IRA campaign of violenceSat Aug 24 2024 - 06:00
Spycatcher may have one final chapterAuthor Tim Tate returns to battle with the Cabinet Office over the release of secret files; perhaps more fodder for the paperback editionFri Aug 23 2024 - 16:18
Northern secretary Douglas Hurd faced criticism from Catholic priests during private dinnerClerics condemned the behaviour of the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Royal Ulster ConstabularyThu Aug 22 2024 - 10:00
South Armagh farmers dominated compensation list over animals allegedly harmed by British soldiers’ actionsMore than £10 million was paid in compensation by the UK government to farmers in South Armagh from April 1996 to March 1998Thu Aug 22 2024 - 08:00
Holy Cross school crisis has left a long shadow over Northern Ireland A protest by Protestant loyalists of a Catholic primary school in Belfast dominated international headlines about Northern Ireland in 2001 but its shadow continued for long afterThu Aug 22 2024 - 06:00
Footballer Neil Lennon showed ‘remarkable courage’ after sectarian abuse, said unionist ministerGlasgow Celtic player Neil Lennon, a Catholic, withdrew from the Northern Ireland team in 2002 after a death threat was received against himThu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Irish Border could not be sealed, Stormont ministers told during 2001 foot-and-mouth crisisNewly released state papers in Northern Ireland reveal private concerns among ministers about the spread of the contagious disease and its impact on food exportsThu Aug 22 2024 - 02:00
Pregnant women in parts of Belfast declined antenatal care due to religion, report foundDraft 2001 study on cost of polarisation in Northern Ireland found three decades of sectarian strife created ‘two distinct and separate communities’Thu Aug 22 2024 - 00:01
Doug Beattie steps down as UUP leader due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ with party officersThe Upper Bann Assembly member said leading the Ulster Unionist Party had been a ‘lonely’ experience at timesMon Aug 19 2024 - 19:54
Belfast riots were ‘intolerable’ and the actions of racists, says Keir Starmer British prime minister meets injured PSNI officers during a visit to the cityMon Aug 19 2024 - 18:56
Man who tried to kill Hitler remembered by Irish relativesUCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plotSun Aug 11 2024 - 15:22
Team Ireland or Team GB? For Northern Irish Olympians, there’s no identity crisisThe middle ground in Northern Ireland can ‘get their heads around’ multiple identities, says former rugby international Trevor RinglandSun Aug 11 2024 - 12:30
Israel must face boycotts, human rights lawyer saysSelf defence gives ‘blank cheque’ to countries to attack others inside UN rules, Prof Conor Gearty saysSun Aug 11 2024 - 12:07
Simon Coveney: ‘Theresa May’s efforts on the Irish question should be recognised. Her successors didn’t share that’The former tánaiste reflects on the ‘fun behind the craziness’ of Liz Truss, the ‘intellectual snobbery’ Enda Kenny faced, and Michel Barnier’s shock at the warm welcome he received on the streets of DublinSat Aug 03 2024 - 06:00
Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster: ‘We have far too many echoes of the 1930s, with too many crises overlapping’Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster see troubling parallels between the events of today and those of a century agoSat Aug 03 2024 - 05:15
The ‘snowflakes’ are those who want to deny Britain’s imperial sins, argues historianBritain is due a reckoning with its own past, says University of Sussex professorThu Aug 01 2024 - 17:56
Decision on future construction at Casement Park must be made quickly, says Hilary BennNorthern Secretary tells House of Commons ‘nothing has happened’ at stadium since announcement it would host European Championship fixturesWed Jul 24 2024 - 15:40
White working class moving to Republican Party, yet Trump never delivered for those workers, says academicDemocratic Party has lost touch with this class due to supporting globalised trade and leftist politics, academic Larry Donnelly tells Patrick MacGill Summer SchoolSun Jul 21 2024 - 09:20
‘Ireland’s freedom was not won, it was given’: Historian’s new book casts fresh light on old struggleCambridge-based historian John O’Beirne Ranelagh interviewed 100 former members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during the 1970s. Much of the material has been unused - until nowSun Jul 21 2024 - 06:00
UK government could face court challenge to force unity referendum, says Sinn Féin’s Pearse DohertyVague rules surrounding trigger mean decisions either way could face judicial reviewSat Jul 20 2024 - 16:06
Keeping RTÉ licence fee would be ‘deeply disappointing’ - Ní RaghallaighIreland has highest evasion rate in Europe for ‘inequitable tax’ on television set owners, former RTÉ board chairwoman saysSat Jul 20 2024 - 13:29
‘The adults are back in the room in London’: how far will Starmer’s reset of UK-EU relations go?New Labour government could open door to future talks with EU on defence, trade checks and youth movement, but it will have to face down the right-wing domestic pressSat Jul 20 2024 - 05:00
‘Department of Infrastructure’ proposed by TaoiseachSummer school hears Simon Harris on need to escape administrative ‘silos’ to build more housing in a politics of ‘pragmatism’Fri Jul 19 2024 - 19:47
Asylum protesters ‘are not us’, says Taoiseach at MacGill Summer SchoolSimon Harris says everyone is entitled to protest but not to ‘lawlessness’Fri Jul 19 2024 - 18:25
Ireland will not nominate a second European Commission candidate, says TaoiseachUrsula von der Leyen annoyed at decision of 10 of Ireland’s 14 MEPs - including the four Fianna Fáil MEPs, to vote against herFri Jul 19 2024 - 18:10
Campaign against global pandemic treaty threatens public health, Tony Holohan saysFormer CMO says volunteer corps capable of stepping in at short notice to carry out basic health and administrative duties needed for next health crisisFri Jul 19 2024 - 13:33
Humanity has just five years to prevent irreversible climate damage, warns RyanMinister for Climate issues stark warning of looming disaster during address to MacGill summer schoolThu Jul 18 2024 - 19:22
Low earners should pay some income tax, say economistsSummer school told ‘very low or no tax rates on low income’ is a policy choice that would be very difficult to reverseThu Jul 18 2024 - 19:05
Planning for united Ireland must start now, Oireachtas committee advises‘No insurmountable economic or financial barriers’ to unification, Belfast Agreement committee saysTue Jul 16 2024 - 20:18
Fractured unionism must learn how to woo support for the unionGive new prime minister Keir Starmer a chance, unionists toldFri Jul 12 2024 - 06:00
Israel should have been Northern Ireland, say liberal IsraelisBelfast Agreement ‘a real source of inspiration’, says sociologist Ron DudaiMon Jul 08 2024 - 05:00
Joe Mulholland: ‘We had some amazing days, and nights ... Politics was different then’ Former senior RTÉ figure is passing on the reins of the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal, after 43 yearsSat Jul 06 2024 - 06:00
Finding Margaret: Andrew Pierce’s search for his Irish motherIn his painful journey, Pierce makes no attempt to hide his own conflicted emotions in a way that will be understood by anyone adoptedSat Jul 06 2024 - 04:14
All is changed, changed utterly: Starmer’s Downing Street reign presents chance to rebuild old tiesRaw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and EuropeFri Jul 05 2024 - 20:23
In the face of pushback, historian Corinne Fowler is trying to open minds to Britain’s legacy of slaveryProf Corinne Fowler has been embroiled in the culture wars that so often mark British public debate, targeted by some who argue she is ‘woke’ and intent on destroying Britain’s global reputationSat Jun 29 2024 - 06:00
The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024: 14 Wasted Years? A damning indictment of Tory ruleThe judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutalSat Jun 29 2024 - 05:00
Relations between Ireland and UK must be ‘reset’ after July 4th election, says trade bodyBritish-Irish Chamber of Commerce says there are ‘huge opportunities’ for co-operation between Dublin and LondonFri Jun 28 2024 - 16:29
Britain’s next PM should not ignore British-Irish Council meetings, say leadersIrish, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders urge Downing Street to engage at twice-annual forumFri Jun 21 2024 - 19:11
Justice system puts ‘victim on trial’, says woman beaten unconscious by soldierThere is ‘far too much violence against women in our country’, says Taoiseach as he praises Natasha O’Brien for ‘speaking out’Fri Jun 21 2024 - 19:09
British-Irish Council to meet on the Isle of Man without key figuresBritish prime minister and Northern Ireland’s First Minister will not be in attendanceThu Jun 20 2024 - 20:02
Reconciliation and reunification should be pursued in parallel, conference told Leo Varadkar, Mary Lou McDonald and former UDA member David Adams among speakers at Ireland’s Future conference in BelfastSun Jun 16 2024 - 20:46
David Puttnam: ‘The Irish invented immigration and went through every single form of the immigrant experience’Partly because the film-maker and former peer so often praises Ireland, and partly because he is genuinely likable, the West Cork resident has for many become Ireland’s favourite EnglishmanSun Jun 16 2024 - 06:00
Call for new rules relating to tax and welfare for cross-Border workersEmployers’ groups want it to be easier to live in one jurisdiction and work in the otherFri Jun 14 2024 - 06:00
Campaign to destroy Sunningdale holds lessons for todayShankill activist speaks of regret at marching against dealSat Jun 01 2024 - 11:40
‘Some children are anxious or angry. Sometimes they’re blank. And then they’re expected to go straight into class’Teachers in the Malvern and St Joseph’s primary schools strive to overcome hunger, poverty and low-expectations of their environments to encourage children on to better thingsSun May 26 2024 - 06:00
Dublin-Monaghan attacks mattered less to Irish than Birmingham IRA atrocity, UK diplomat reportedFifty years on from the bombings that killed 33 people, fresh research into contacts between Dublin and London shows the UK believed in 1974 the bombers had been detainedFri May 17 2024 - 06:00
‘Change must come’: One man’s fight to end Northern Ireland’s segregated educationJust 8% of children in the North attend integrated schools. 90-year-old former priest David Rice says helping to change this is his final battleTue May 14 2024 - 05:00
How an enigmatic, cross-dressing British spy became London’s emissary to Dublin in the second World WarDudley Clarke was best known as British intelligence chief who devised the SAS but lesser known is his role advising De Valera’s government on how to fend off a feared German invasionSun May 12 2024 - 08:00
Costs of united Ireland would equal pain of the austerity years, economists sayRecently published report estimated cost for unification at €20bn a year for 20 years but this figure is contestedThu May 02 2024 - 20:54
Farmers in North face major losses if UK-EU vet medicines deal fails, experts warnFailure to reach a deal would be ‘unforgivable’, warns peerTue Apr 30 2024 - 00:01
