Mother and Baby homes: a legacy of cruelty and concealment
Irish society must “atone” for sending women to institutions and burying babies in unmarked graves, Leo Varadkar has said in response to last week’s...
Tributes pour in for journalist shot dead during Derry riots
Michael D. Higgins and figures across the political spectrum have paid their tributes to journalist Lyra McKee after she was murdered during riots in...
May’s 2022 festival ‘likely to heighten tensions’ in NI
British prime minister Theresa May’s plan to throw a nationwide party celebrating British culture may “inflame tensions” in Northern Ireland since it is set...
Blair and Ahern step in to ‘rescue’ Good Friday Agreement
Twenty-one years after the Good Friday Agreement Brexit is now the “most serious threat to peace in the North”, according to the two government...
Entire FAI board should be replaced, say Irish soccer fans in UK
The entire FAI board should be replaced for “disrespecting” fans amid the current crisis engulfing the association, supporters’ clubs in the UK have said....
Magazine criticised by ambassador for “anti-Irish sentiment”
Adrian O’Neill, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, has criticised a political magazine for lapsing “into an anti-Irish sentiment", alleging that recent articles about...
Growing anger at Home Office over Irish citizenship
By Colin Gannon
The UK government needs to provide “urgent transparency” into its promised review into the post-Brexit rights of Irish citizens who were born...
Birmingham pub bombings: 21 victims murdered after ‘botched’ call
A botched warning call made by the IRA caused or contributed to the deaths of 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings,...
UK and Ireland could end up in different time zones
By PJ Cunningham
While virtually all attention has been focused on the economic fallout in the parting of the ways after Brexit, Ireland and Britain...
Is it time we start talking about a united Ireland?
By Colin Gannon
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has been the single largest and most transformative event to happen to Northern Irish...