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Louth Council handout artist’s impression of the Narrow Water Bridge project, which will link Omeath in Co Louth with Warrenpoint in Co Down. Photograph: Louth Council/PA Wire
Funding for Narrow Water bridge may be lost

The proposed Narrow Water Bridge project, which advocates say could regenerate the economy of the north Louth / south Down Border region is in (...)

Northern secretary Humphrey Atkins sent a secret official minute to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1981 saying elements of the provisional leadership were prepared to “consider an end of the current terrorist campaign”.
British believed elements of IRA wanted peace in 1981

The British government as far back as 1981 believed there were elements in the leadership of the provisional republican movement who were prepared (...)

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin speaking at the annual Easter Rising 1916 Commemoration at Arbour Hill, Dublin, on Sunday. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Micheál Martin correct in diagnosing lack of political focus on Northern Ireland

Micheál Martin has always taken more interest in the North than the average Fianna Fáil politician. Long before he became party leader, h(...)

Decisions by the Parades Commission in Northern Ireland during the marching season must be complied with, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers has said. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire
Parades Commission’s powers over marching season must be respected, warns NI Secretary Theresa Villiers

Decisions by the Parades Commission in Northern Ireland during the marching season must be complied with, Northern Ireland Secretary of State T(...)

An artist’s impression of the 660m Narrow Water bridge, which would span the neck of Carlingford Lough and would link Down and Louth just outside Warrenpoint to the north and Omeath to the south. The bridge could also open to allow boats to access the Newry Canal and the Albert Basin in the city. Photograph: Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland.
€18 million bridge over Carlingford Lough sparks political row in Stormont

Planners have given the go-ahead for a controversial €18 million cross-Border infrastructure project backed in the main by EU funding. However,(...)

Michéal Martin said that “In the Northern Executive, Sinn Fé e in and DUP ministers show no interest in using their strength to bridge differences — - in fact they do the exact opposite.”
Stormont rulers failing to fulfil peace promise, says Martin

Stormont’s ruling political parties have created a dangerous vacuum in Northern Ireland by failing to fulfil the promise of peace and reconcili(...)

Bill barring long-term NI prisoners from advisorship delayed

A Bill barring former IRA prisoners from becoming special advisers to Northern Ireland ministers has been delayed. Hardline unionist Jim (...)

Dr Garret FitzGerald signs the Anglo-Irish Agreement with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times
Witty, argumentative and emotional: the human side to Thatcher’s political resolve

The Margaret Thatcher whom I first met as minister for foreign affairs in the spring of 1975, shortly after her election as leader of the Conservat(...)

Victoria Square in Belfast. The rate of joblessness in Northern Ireland is almost half that of the South’s, and the numbers at work have risen slightly since 2008, compared with a precipitous decline of more than 300,000 in the Republic
North-South economic divide in Ireland is wider than ever

This column has, no doubt, many failings. None has been more serious than its neglect of issues related to the northern part of this island. Th(...)

Peace wall on Cupar Street, off Shankill Road in Belfast. Photograph: David Sleator
Path to progress still littered with peace lines

Northern Ireland is an incomparably better place now than when the Belfast Agreement came into being exactly 15 years ago. There is far less vi(...)

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