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There are two parts to making this a whole picture. Both its components are the NIO. Slipping out on New Year’s Eve that the British government had...
Ted Howell, aka Eamon McCrory, who died yesterday after being ill for some time, was the most important republican figure in the peace process...
Sinn Féin’s most experienced – and some would say most effective – northern politician is heading for pastures new. It’s probably a matter of...
If you asked people who runs the north, the answers you’d get would vary but most would be pretty predictable: Stormont, the executive, Sinn Féin...
Contrasting fortunes for the north’s two main parties in 2024. A roller coaster for Sinn Féin, ending the year better than they feared and many had...
There’s a new podcast that’s been running for a couple of months with the BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera, and David McCloskey, a...
Mary Lou McDonald wrote in this paper on Monday: “People want to be part of the conversation on the future of Ireland, on the shape of...
Today the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) come into force in the EU and here. GPSR are a new set of EU trade regulations which mean that...
At least we have some description of what Stormont ministers do, a list of meetings. We’ve a long way to go to reach the level of a list of...
Those sighing with relief after the Dáil election, believing a border poll is going to be put on the back burner for at least another four years,...
It’s early days for working out the permutations of coalition in the south but the discussion seems to centre around whether Fianna Fáil and Fine...
Whatever the outcome of today’s general election in the south – three or four-party coalition, three parties with a gaggle of Independents, or some...
You might have seen the picture of DUP leader Gavin Robinson standing beside graffiti on the wall of the Royal Victoria Hospital supporting...
The Italian communist leader and political theorist Antonio Gramsci’s best-known quotation is probably the entry in his ‘Prison Notebooks’ in...
It has emerged that the former SNP leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, has requested an investigation into the DUP’s conference clown, Sammy...
This week Sir Keir Starmer jetted off to the Cop29 conference in Baku in Azerbaijan to make a speech for home consumption. He announced he was...