Stop blaming unionists for the Casement Park debacle
What remains of the Euros plan is rancour and paranoia, a sorry legacy for what was meant to be an inspiring cross-community project
In their cosy new embrace, Starmer and Harris may be forgetting the Belfast Agreement
Concerns are being raised by experts that north-south and east-west strands face being “hollowed out” by careless duplication
If you want to know whether Sinn Féin’s housing policy will work, look at what it achieved in the North
There’s one unifying factor to the party’s entirely different strategies in the North and South: both approaches ultimately aim to secure power to advance a united Ireland
UUP needs to become the Progressive Democrats to the DUP’s Fianna Fáil
The UUP could become unionism’s champion of centre-right or centrist good government, challenging the populism and incompetence of the DUP and Sinn Féin
Something weird is happening to the North’s economy, and for once Brexit is not responsible
The public sector is crumbling as essential reforms fall prey to spineless politics. Yet the private sector is booming
No major party has been as cynical on immigration as Fine Gael
The temptation for Sinn Féin will be to portray opposition to immigration as a unionist prejudice, while urging everyone else, North and South, to follow its example and do better
Why the three main unionist parties are making a show of themselves over a GAA flag
A classic failure of unionism is fear of being called a Lundy, an insult derived from the siege of Derry, meaning a traitor or appeaser. The entire unionist political system immediately Lundied itself over the GAA flag
Britain seemed to have turned a corner on immigration after Brexit. Then October 7th happened
The scale and intensity of the protests that followed have caused a backlash against both immigration and the UK’s four million Muslim citizens. Tentative progress on understanding Islam in Britain has been thrown into reverse
How to talk about a united Ireland: Say little and set up a committee
Nothing in the report by the latest all-party Oireachtas committee is contentious because avoiding contention is the point
The difference between Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar on UK-Irish relations goes beyond tone
And it works both ways. Harris’s warmth towards the UK is being rewarded with a softening of Keir Starmer’s stance on a Border poll
Unionism has welcomed Labour’s apparently inevitable win, but nationalists are already milking it
The next UK government’s spending policy could lead to a boon for Stormont parties thanks to the oddities of devolutionary accounting
Northerners look on the Republic’s motorways with envy – but tolls are a bridge too far
Newton Emerson: Toll roads and Northern Ireland: as so often at Stormont, everybody knows what should be done but nobody will step forward to do it.
Larne gas cavern project a victim of green nimbyism and North’s administrative deadlock
Gas storage saga has been dragging on for years for facility that should have been operational in 2022 and which would have helped following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Can Sinn Féin pull off its left-right, North-South balancing act?
The party may move economically left and socially right in the Republic - but it needs to stay the course in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s poultry industry must be forced to clean up its act
A BBC investigation found Moy Park breached legal limits on effluent discharge hundreds of times since 2017 within the catchment of Lough Neagh