On his secret talks with Sinn Féin in the late 1980s, he said: “I was given the instruction just to listen but I’m afraid I did a great deal more than that”

During the 2011 general election campaign, the leaders of the three main parties debated in Irish. That can’t happen now

L&H rescinds plans to offer Joyce medal to author due to what many regard as his offensive views on transgender issues

Participants will undoubtedly focus on the presidential election campaign, which is a short-term diversion from long-standing and worsening social issues

The unions have over 86,000 members between them. If they stopped working, the strike would soon end

An iron response to Israel’s war crimes will not come from America. Britain and and EU member states are also compromised

Candidates may mean well in vowing to act on big social issues, but the reality of being president is different

Radio: The phone-in canvasses so many people that it might just qualify as a poll of voting intention for the entire country

Much has changed since partition ‘marooned’ Northern nationalists, but much has stayed the same

Early 20th century republicans revered his contemporary critics but their grandparents lived through the era of O’Connell as ‘the Liberator’ and champion of Catholic emancipation

The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”

Moygashel fire is bitterly ironic given how central the migrant experience is to Ulster’s history

Presidential elections generate an acute interest in who and what we would like to symbolise our Republic

Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays

There’s an opportunity to turn it into a building that can generate pride, and improve the perception of a space widely regarded as deficient and devoid of imagination

Researchers in the 1930s found that in some cases it was acceptable to beat a childless wife for being ‘barren’. Fifty years on, there’s no happy ending

AIB said this week it owes an ‘immense debt of gratitude’ to the Irish taxpayer. Indeed it does

What was deemed politically unacceptable by British imperialists a century ago is permitted today at hideous cost to the people of Gaza

Airlines will not reduce their carbon footprint if they dramatically increase the number of flights, whatever they say about cutting emissions per passenger

England is accustomed to seeing rivers as a filthy threat, but we can’t let the same thing happen here