Bertie Ahern accused of creating ‘mythology’ surrounding role in peace process
John Bruton’s work on Northern Ireland ‘has been forgotten’, says ex-minister, as author suggests Ahern should be ‘a little bit more generous’ to others
Michael McMonagle, former Sinn Féin press officer, jailed for nine months for child sexual offences
PSNI Detective Chief Superintendent issues a warning to paedophiles and vigilantes seeking to hunt them
John Bruton’s former adviser says history of the peace process needs to be rewritten
Shane Kenny says the then taoiseach never received the credit due for his role leading up to the Belfast Agreement
Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to vote
Under-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United Kingdom
‘We live in a messy world’: Harold Good became internationally known as a witness to IRA decommissioning
Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers
Ireland’s reputation enhanced by stance on Gaza, says Mary Robinson
Former president says Israel being led ‘by a bad government at the moment'
British-Irish traders ‘buried in bureaucracy after Brexit’
Drop in Irish SME trade with Britain ‘depressing’, British minister tells conference
Oscar winner David Puttnam says film production can play role in ‘shared’ Ireland
Acclaimed producer says governments North and South should invest in cross-Border culture to build mutual understanding
Four-fifths of Northern Irish households receive more in benefits than they pay in tax
Average Southern household pays three times more tax
Ireland will have to decide what neutrality means, says former head of security inquiry
Ireland’s geographical location has been enough to offer security over recent decades, but ‘the world is changing’
Sinn Féin’s old rules of secrecy will no longer do amid fresh controversy
Sinn Féin figures did not know what to say about the party’s handling of job references for a former official now convicted of a child sex offence, but it was the issue they couldn’t escape
Thirty years on from ceasefire, loyalist communities remain ignored, poor and threatened from within
‘People try to make distinctions between a good paramilitary and a bad paramilitary. A good paramilitary might be somebody who sells coke on a Saturday night. A bad paramilitary would be somebody who’s dealing heroin’
Telling the story of an IRA hunger-striker: ‘What’s on stage is the reality: death, brutality, viciousness’
Staging the Martin Hurson Story has caused disquiet in parts of the North. Its aim is not to glorify, says its writer
Jon Sopel on the madness of post-Brexit Britain: ‘I think we’ve done some stupid sh*t’
The BBC correspondent turned award-winning podcaster has published a new book, Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense
Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder: a massacre intended to strike fear into the hearts of Catholics
In a new book Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, a massacre whose repercussions continue to be felt