The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

Members of the rap group Kneecap will compete against Hollywood superstar Cillian Murphy for a major honour at the Irish Film ...

“We’re better than this,” Mary McAleese tells me. This quote sums up her life and legacy. As President of Ireland from 1997 until 2011, the theme of her presidency was ‘building bridges’, and ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Jim Sharkey, who ran a newsagent shop in the County Tyrone town, was amongst those speaking at the inquiry into the 1998 ...

One thing that we are certain of in Northern Ireland is that there will not be agreement on Legacy issues; there will be very differing opinions ...

The Policy Exchange think tank also warns about potential future costs - which it claims could amount to £1.3bn.

The cost of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past is set to be considerably more than £2 billion, a UK think tank has estimated. The Policy Exchange has put the cost of inquiries, court cases, ...

The Police Ombudsman has confirmed that she will appeal the judgment by Justice Scoffield in relation to the Operation ...

Sir David Davis said last week’s coroner’s report into the Coalisland shootings was ’51 pages of fact and eight pages of naive speculation’.

Two years ago, when the black Irish comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” was nominated for nine Academy Awards, host Jimmy ...