John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, on the former president's impending arrest.

Amidst the veneration of the Belfast Agreement taking place at Queen’s University this week, there has been a less than subtle message: that the DUP should get back to work and re-join the devolved...

This week’s news that Ireland is taking the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights shows, once again, how successive governments’ stubborn refusal to go on the (metaphorical) offensive...

Brussels is not our friend. It is only nice to us when it needs us, and shafts us whenever it finds an opportunity to do so

Pat Cullen has won Fermanagh and South Tyrone, beating the unionist candidate Diana Armstrong.

David Frost on why the Northern Ireland Protocol is an affront to the UK’s sovereignty.

A letter from Axel Schmidt:

​​This week, in light of Ireland's outrageous decision to sue the UK on legacy, I put out a 10-part tweet thread (or series of posts on X, as Twitter is now called) on the matter.

Ministers accused of rigging Parliament by replacing five Eurosceptic MPs from a committee with Remain voters

Maros Sefcovic claims responsibility for the public health of Northern Ireland now lies with Brussels

A letter from G. Reilly:

Tánaiste says decision taken ��after much thought and careful consideration’ as SDLP’s Eastwood describes case as ‘welcome and utterly necessary’

Tip-toeing around Republican crimes is obscuring modern history…

In few parts of the world have emotionally charged narratives about the past been more divisive and dangerous than in Ireland. In recent decades, accusations of official discrimination in Northern...

​So, it’s all over for another five years, or (dare we hope?) twenty-five.

The occasion was a small government-sponsored memorial event to commemorate the sacrifices of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police…

THE message during those tortured years of Brexit negotiations could not have been starker. Nothing could risk any change to the 310-mile land border between the United Kingdom and the European Uni…

There is an onus on the Irish Government to hold a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing, matching the commitment of the UK Government, Tom Elliott has said.

In effect, Dublin has abdicated responsibility of protecting the Europe’s northwestern borders.

​Just before the council election, I predicted that a strong result for pro-protocol parties would be used to, “marginalise and chastise unionists who believe that Northern Ireland needs to be a full...

Three republicans who served time during the Troubles have no regrets about the long IRA campaign of violence

Leo Varadkar says Northern Ireland works best when there is a ‘common strategy’ between both jurisdictions

College says all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism, have ‘absolutely no place’ on campus

It follows comments from Ireland’s deputy Prime Minister that "realities of today are not those of 1998 and that the time has come for reform".

It’s been a punishment the EU inflicted on the UK for Brexit, a proxy for the Leave and Remain campaigns to continue their political struggle, and now the Northern Ireland Protocol is a key battleg...

There are serious differences between the claims UK ministers have made about the agreement and those of the EU

​​At the end of February, rumours of a UK deal with the EU were intensifying.

Michael Hayes, a former IRA commander, has openly boasted about being the mastermind who planned the 1979 assassination of Lord Mountbatten

​The response of the Parades Commission last Thursday to the proposal from Portadown District LOL No 1 that the Drumcree Orangemen be allowed to make their return home on Sunday, July 28 - the same...

With the UK government about to publish a bill giving UK ministers powers to impose alternative arrangements in place of the current Northern Ireland Protocol this article asks why there was no...

In a fractious year in Norther Irish politics, there were few signs that Stormont could be restored, as the row over the Brexit protocol dragged on

A letter from Norman Baxter:

The Legacy Act is a highly controversial piece of legislation, of that there can be no doubt, but the Government had promised veterans who had served in Northern Ireland that they would deal with...

A new report outlines the massive costs. Sinn Fein seems to imagine the British will pay them

Wellington was born in Ireland, once spoke with a thick brogue, and relied on Irish troops and officers to defeat Napoleon. Yet history portrays him as scorning his background

As Biden visits NI, it’s vital to remember the UK is an independent nation with its own divergent priorities

​Notwithstanding some practical gains compared to the NI Protocol as the EU has retreated from the most absurd attempts to defend the integrity of the Single Market, two big economic reasons remain...

Ian Paisley MP has hit out at the Irish government's "steadfast resistance" at not holding a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing and believes they are "running away" from the fact that "collusion"...

The Irish government has been urged to give “more than face value co-operation” to the Omagh bomb inquiry.

The Israeli Ambassador in Dublin has said she does not believe Ireland is politically neutral in respect of the Israel-Hamas conflict, as she warned of a rising "wave of antisemitism" internationally.

Israel’s war is against Hamas, not the Palestinian people, writes Israel's ambassador to Ireland

Many people in the Republic frequently fail to include events and personalities from other traditions on the island, Tánaiste tells festival

President Michael D Higgins led a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising at the GPO in Dublin today.

​In no time it was over and Sinn Fein had got away with its highly cynical apology this week – indeed it won praise for it in some quarters.

Leo Varadkar, who resigned yesterday, has certainly earned his place in the history of Anglo-Irish relations

​​The news that the PSNI chief constable not only intends to continue in his job, but may appeal a shattering court decision against the force, was greeted with incredulity last week.

Brussels' post-Brexit campaign has brought more headaches than results

​The two local universities – Queen’s and Ulster – have taken noticeably different approaches to commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement.

​I am writing to defend David Trimble from the sneering he was subjected on RTE last week, following the release of Irish government’s state papers 1993-2003.

Leo Varadkar says Northern Ireland works best when there is a ‘common strategy’ between both jurisdictions

Today, the official period of mourning for the Queen comes to an end, culminating in a state funeral at Westminster Abbey and a private interment service at Windsor.

Jim Allister, the leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice, blames Ireland’s insistence on keeping the border open for the rise in crossings

Party demanded line be drawn on Troubles-era crimes in Republic during peace process

There is hope now that natural patterns of society and economics will revive, and a century of waste in Derry can be swept away

How the question is framed makes little difference to voters in the South, who oppose including them on coinage of a united Ireland

​Gavin Robinson has hit out the Irish government’s “hypocrisy” over legacy issues, and called for Dublin to “face up” to its own actions during the Troubles.

Liz Truss must act immediately to preserve the peace

Victims' campaigner Kenny Donaldson has said the UK Government has created difficulties by "deeply hurting other families who have been denied any recourse to justice, truth and accountability" after...