For nearly four years, I trained as a retail store manager in Dublin. As 1985 arrived, I was offered a good opportunity in ...

It is said that history doesn’t actually repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The 1930s were in some ways similar to the ...

Cormac Moore, the rather scratchy successor to the much missed and greatly lamented Eamon Phoenix as the historian of the Irish News, has a piece in the paper about BBC Northern Ireland’s bias down ...

Last Thursday, on BBC Northern Ireland’s The View, Claire Hanna turned her fire on the political settlement that has governed Stormont since the St Andrews Agreement of October 2006 — an arrangement ...

The long drawn out saga of new British legacy legislation falls between two stools. Too much law for anti “lawfare” campaigners. Not enough legal enforcement for some victims groups and “transitional ...

When Declan Kearney, Sinn Féin MLA and former party chairman, accused Gordon Lyons, the DUP Communities Minister responsible for the Irish language strategy, of presiding over a ministry hostile to ...

While announcing the introduction of the new post-16 V-Levels (Vocational Levels – available in England from 2027), Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the “bold reforms” will end the snobbery ...

After thirty years of post-Agreement politics, support for a united Ireland hasn't moved. The border poll debate needs a ...

John Taylor’s interview with Alex Kane in the Irish News last week is still causing ripples, particularly his claim that Irish unity is probably inevitable, and that unionists should prepare for it.

Lisburn, Ballymena, Newry, Newtownards, and the secondary streets of Belfast — and you will see town and city centres in distress. Empty shop units sit alongside an over-proliferation of charity shops ...

Paul Givan has been moving quickly on education reform. His recent announcement of a new statutory body for controlled ...