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 ...

Mick looks at Claire Hanna's direct if deliberately modest assault on the St Andrews settlement with three targeted institutional reforms — and she has done so at precisely the moment Sinn Féin can ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...