Eamonn Mccann

Derry and Strabane top a league table that nobody wants to win

‘Complacency set in, people thought they had the Covid pandemic beaten, and they socialised’

The game they loved so well: How cricket united Hume, McGuinness and McCann

Although they disagreed on many things, the most English of games was common ground

Trinity students crowned team champions of 60th Irish Times Debate

Individual speaker’s award goes to Rachael Mullally representing UCD Law

The Irish Times Debate at 60: How changing topics reflected the ages

For six decades, participants in the annual event have argued burning issues of the day

My debating days: By Michael D Higgins, Mary Harney, Dara Ó Briain and more

Debating taught me ‘to think quickly and speak slowly in unpredictable situations’

Wit and warmth: The secret weapons of Irish debaters

The first Irish Times Debate took place 60 years ago. Former student debaters look back

TCD and Sadsi speakers secure places for Irish Times Debate grand final

Last semi-final held in cadets’ mess at the Curragh Camp

‘I love you, legs.’ ‘I love you, knees.’ And other Electric Picnic conversations

It’s Sunday. Opt for an early feed of chips, or get in touch with body and soul?

Battle of the Bogside 'like a conveyor belt system making petrol bombs'

The Troubles at 50: Rioting in Derry remembered by first-hand witnesses

Focus on nationalism will ‘sooner or later’ move Ireland towards fascism

Activist Bernadette McAliskey gives warning at event for 50th anniversary of the Bogside

Ex-speaker for dissident republican group Gary Donnelly tops Derry poll

Sinn Féin loses position as largest party in council as SDLP gains seats

‘You are now entering Free Derry’: 50 years on

Free Derry Corner has been a beacon of civil rights and political liberty for half a century

Peter Casey’s childhood brush with civil rights did not instill empathy

Some Derry activists are still campaigning for social justice in their native hinterland

Micheál Martin claims Sinn Féin TDs face ‘centralised control’

FF leader rules out coalition but says apology from SF for IRA atrocities would be ‘very significant’

Several thousand march through Derry for city’s annual Pride parade

March led by those who were prominent in the civil rights movement

Brendan O’Connor show: Majella O’Donnell could interview herself

TV Review: Presenter Brendan O’Connor is outmanoeuvred by his chat show guest

What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’Callaghan

RTÉ’s documentary about the 1968 protests is part history show, part personal journey

A year on, Martin McGuinness’s legacy still provokes mixed reaction

In Derry, he is being recast in Irish chieftain mould, in keeping with Republican tradition

Angry, indignant, honest Sean O’Rourke

Radio Review: Both O’Rourke and Cormac Ó hEadhra find politics difficult to stomach

Review – In The Name of Peace: John Hume in America

Time to recall pivotal role played by a patriot, and that rare breed – the virtuous politician

How Arlene Foster helped nationalism find its teeth

DUP leader has hardened nationalist resolve like no unionist first minister before her

Sinn Féin ‘flouting election rules in North’, says PBP

People Before Profit’s Eamonn McCann to meet electoral office over proxy voter claims

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