Dáil clerk job up for grabs with a salary of just under €250,000
Overheard: Tourism bosses see upside of Norman invasion and Michael Flatley lets flute do the talking amid Áras speculation
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Members of Burke family confront Northern Ireland education head in car park
Mervyn Storey accused of ‘enforcing transgenderism in Northern Ireland schools’ in relation to guidelines for supporting transgender pupils
Psychiatrist report on Eleanor Donaldson’s health expected on Monday
Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to five counts of aiding and abetting over charges faced by Jeffrey Donaldson
Who do you call if you want to speak to the leader of unionism? It’s complicated
The DUP has accepted second place at Stormont. But it doesn’t know how to lead unionism from there
Michelle O’Neill: ‘The British state killed local people. Those moments contribute to who you are’
Northern Ireland’s First Minister discusses party leadership, presidency, teen pregnancy and ‘precious gift of peace’
Fees for students from Republic in Northern Ireland need to rise
Students from south of the Border apply for capped places in NI and pay the local £4,855 fee, while students from Britain pay double. There’s a good argument for why that should change
Senator George Mitchell: The man Ian Paisley called ‘a foreigner and a pro-Irish republican’
Journalists were used to dealing with aloof ministers during peace talks in Belfast, but the US diplomat was cut from different cloth
Supply risk identified for some UK animal medicines shipped to North
UK government says most veterinary products will remain available as part of post-Brexit arrangements from January
The DUP couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to get tough on immigration
The party may have unleashed sentiments that carry it swiftly to the right
EU-UK deal is a gift to unionists. Shame they can’t all see it
Reaction among conservative politicians portrays NI as a victim. It is a short step from there to portraying Britain as a victim of Northern Ireland
Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic
Today’s downsizers are closer to 70 and in no mood to rewire and replaster. They want a new build, which means they’ll be outbidding younger couples on a three-bed semi
The Belfast train station signs in Irish that are testing Stormont’s shaky foundations
Row over Belfast’s Grand Central Station adding Irish to displays and ticket machines reinforces Assembly’s vulnerability to identity politics
Work on Irish language signs in Belfast train station halted due to potential legal action
Plan for signs prompted dispute among Stormont Executive ministers
Reforms that undermine Belfast Agreement will be ‘dangerous’, experts warn
Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report says
Anger in Northern Ireland at welfare cuts to balance budget books
Concern in Stormont over Rachel Reeves’ spring statement as higher numbers of people rely on welfare support in NI than UK average
At home the DUP spurns Irishness, but when abroad it embraces it
The party’s code-switching in the US recently plays to negative stereotypes of unionism as a shallow identity. But could it be a response to a deeper shift?
US visit gives North’s Deputy First Minister a chance to tell a new story
Emma Little-Pengelly and Donald Trump discussed the ‘long-standing and close ties’ between the US and Northern Ireland
Unionists are enjoying the pile-on over the Republic’s defence freeloading
Ireland is facing international criticism and it’s only natural that unionists want to join in. But incomprehension over support for neutrality is also a factor
DUP’s Little-Pengelly will have Trump’s ear this year but it is not without some risk
Deputy First Minister will be voice of Northern Ireland when she meets US president in Oval Office
‘They can’t defend themselves, let alone anybody else’: DUP leader says Ireland has relied on UK for defence for too long
Gavin Robinson calls on Ireland to 'step up to the plate' and invest more in defence
Jarlath Burns criticises DUP’s Gordon Lyons for failing to engage with GAA on Casement Park
GAA president says Northern Ireland Communities Minister is yet to attend GAA match
Sinn Féin’s White House boycott is ‘manoeuvre’ for O’Neill’s Irish presidency bid, DUP says
Sinn Féin taking ‘principled stance’ against Trump’s suggestion to remove Palestinians from Gaza
PSNI urged to move beyond ‘woke quota’ of 50-50 recruitment with Catholics reluctant to join force
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says ‘policing should be about ability, not religion’
Support for planning is evident among those for and against Irish unity
Voters are able to distinguish between wanting something to happen and planning for it to
DUP’s first attempt to use the Stormont brake ends in humiliation
Compounding the unionist party’s agony, it requested the brake over a matter so apparently trivial - font sizes on labels for chemical products - that it sounds like a satirical joke
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont Brake
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
Starmer looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to avoid compensating Gerry Adams
Former Sinn Féin leader and other former internees may seek compensation under Troubles legislation
Conor Murphy’s puzzling move to the Seanad crystallises sense of an unsettled Stormont
Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister
Assembly elections postponement ‘the biggest single setback in years’, Sinn Féin warned
The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair
Stormont staggers on, mostly because no one can agree on an alternative
Preference for a united Ireland has risen from a quarter to a third. Support for direct rule is about 15%, while 10% want an independent Northern Ireland
Bid by Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife to have two charges withdrawn ‘should not delay trial’
Judge says trial of Jeffrey Donaldson and wife, Eleanor, should proceed as expected at the end of March
Why are unionist politicians shy of challenging loyalism?
It is an absurdity that Winston Irvine missed his graduation from Maynooth with a masters in “international peacebuilding” because of a court appearance connected to the UVF bomb hoax on Simon Coveney
Farmers have a point - if only they could make it more reasonably
New rules introduced by the UK government bring a quarter of farms back within inheritance tax, after three decades of being fully exempt. They’re right to be annoyed, but sympathy is waning
North’s sports minister has ‘no objection’ to attending GAA match amid row over Casement funding
DUP minister Gordon Lyons plays down reports of ‘tetchy’ meeting with GAA president Jarlath Burns
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