Friedrich Merz looks like he will be the next German Chancellor. Where his predecessors were ambivalent about European ...

Ah, Brexit, the biggest act of self-sabotage in UK history, continues to have its ripples.  The FT reports that Irish ...

On Wednesday (19 February), the Executive Office confirmed that its “flagship project”, a new £671 million children’s hospital development on the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, had received ...

A new report written by Prof. Jodie Carson and Prof. Stephen Farry calls for a ‘multi-faceted policy approach to public sector transformation’ in Northern Ireland ...

Whether or not the individual had been listening to the politicians or reading social media comments which flowed from the reports of funding for a sports pitch at Lisneal College, the sentiments ...

Since I first began writing about Unionism, I have watched its influence wane, its relevance fade, and its voice grow weaker. What was once a formidable political force now struggles to find direction ...

“I followed with growing concern what’s happening on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank, and like many other Irish people, have listened in horror to calls from the President of the United States ...

Martin Dillon’s new book is ‘The Sorrow and the Loss—The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women,’ and today’s papers are full of choice extracts. Here is a roundup: MI5 ‘tampered ...

Official 2025 inaugural portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (public domain). This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being ...

There’s definitely a change in the air when it comes to the future of Northern Irish politics. Eighteen years the Executive and the power sharing Assembly has achieved a genuinely deepening peace, and ...

Last week PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher expressed concern at the low number of Catholic applicants to the PSNI. As this report from ITV news says… “Northern Ireland’s chief constable has said the ...

It started with Fergal Keane and an “In-Depth” article on the BBC website on a Sunday morning in January. I soon realized this was the entrance to a rabbit-hole, that once I went in, I would fall down ...