Noel Dorr: ‘To understand the Troubles, you must go back much further’
Forty years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the former diplomat still sees Sunningdale as the peace deal that got way
Margaret Thatcher
At the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, we sensed we were witnessing a historic event
While the importance of the Anglo Irish Agreement is sometimes overlooked, it was the foundation on which all subsequent progress has been based
Anglo-Irish breakthroughs have always been intentionally vague
The Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed 40 years ago this week, didn’t bring the reassurance that was hoped for, but ultimately was a significant milestone
Island of Ireland is ‘not ready’ for a unification referendum, says former tánaiste
Dick Spring urges political leaders ‘to jump one fence at a time’ on 40th anniversary of Anglo-Irish Agreement
The EU wants to help fix Europe’s housing crisis, can it?
Brussels policymakers examining changes to free governments hands to subsidise affordable housing developments
Prunella Scales as Sybil Fawlty is immortal, but she enjoyed a distinguished acting career
Scales predicted there was no getting away from Sybil, who first emerged 50 years ago in Fawlty Towers as a harridan for the ages
No honeymoon for Japan’s first female prime minister Sanae Takaichi
Takaichi’s fragile minority coalition will need to form alliances with other conservative parties to pass laws
Who is Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister and fan of Margaret Thatcher?
Sanae Takaichi is not a known advocate of women’s rights or a liberal
Terry Prone: ‘Charlie Haughey grasped me by the knee and told me I was a rude b**ch’
Terry Prone writes about giving media training to Charles Haughey when he was leader of Fianna Fáil
Obituary: David Neligan: Diplomat who played key role in navigating Anglo-Irish relationships
Skills came into particularly sharp focus during the Falklands crisis
Homesick by Peter Apps: How houses went from homes for families to income-generating assets for investors
The in-depth story of London’s housing crisis is very relevant to Ireland
Ben Elton: I was the godfather of political correctness. People said I killed Benny Hill
Ben Elton, the Blackadder and Young Ones writer, on his autobiography, What Have I Done?
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
Japan set for first female prime minster after Sanae Takaichi elected head of ruling party
New leader’s nationalistic positions could stoke friction with China, say analysts
‘Tony O’Reilly should have been president of Ireland’: Jeffrey Archer on life, books and his God-given gift
Former Tory politician on his new novel End Game and - to the chagrin of his publisher - his secret final novel out next year
A GP strike could be the beginning of the end of free primary care in Northern Ireland
Minister for Health Mike Nesbitt’s negotiating tactics are remarkably aggressive. Has he overplayed his hand?
Norman Tebbit, the Tory hard man who took on the trade unions, dies at 94
Conservative politician suffered serious injuries in the IRA’s 1984 Brighton bombing that left his wife paralysed
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin – How bigotry was moved off the statute books
The author intersperses an account of the evolution of gay rights in the US with the story of his own early love affair
Mario Vargas Llosa obituary: Nobel prize-winning novelist combined gritty realism with playful erotica
Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Prize winner, charted his own path as a novelist and conservative, often divisive political thinker
From ‘damned Englishman’ to ‘f**king a**hole’: A history of Ireland in 25 Dáil insults
The language has become coarser but it is striking how fuelled by testosterone the Dáil has always been
Putting Wales First by Richard Wyn Jones: Thinking for Wales - An exciting read with global relevance
This vibrant book includes reflection on nationalism in small countries, as well as a compelling analysis of Plaid Cyrmu’s role in a changing Wales
A baronet from Carlow: ‘Just because you’ve a title, people expect you’re born rich’
London Letter: An afternoon spent discussing nobility
Tory faithful still wistful for Margaret Thatcher 50 years after she became leader
Conservative Party grandees gathered in central London for a night of reflection on Thatcher's early years as leader
I am now very fit. I am ready for Ireland’s fittest family to adopt me
What golden specimens they are, you think, as they propel themselves across God’s good earth like Accenture employees here to rationalise a business
Brian and Maggie review: Why does no Irish broadcaster bring our history to light in such a riveting way?
Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
Previews for January 26th to January 31st: including the return of The Apprentice, Idris Elba investigates Our Knife Crime Crisis and Noah Cosentino stars in The Recruit
Joint British/Irish courts in Northern Ireland were backed by top Conservatives
State records show controversial plan for paramilitary trials had backing in UK cabinet before Thatcher turned it down
Podcasts of 2024: 10 of the best shows from the past year, from Keep It Tight to Who Trolled Amber?
The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature
Culture Club in Dublin: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me sends them wild, but the Boy George show peaks too early
George Alan O’Dowd is now returning to the band that made him famous in the first place, as Culture Club reunite to launch a tour by the Dublin docks in 3Arena
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
The pick of the new shows on TV, from John Creedon’s latest musical roadtrip around Ireland, to a look at the life and times of Michael Smurfit to Cate Blanchett thriller Disclaimer
Paul Howard on the Falkland Islands: ‘Coming here confirms the stupid wastefulness of it all’
This was number one on the writer’s bucket list, but a lifelong fascination culminates in a tour that leaves him ‘dark and depressed’
Moira Buffini: ‘I’ve had this love affair with Ireland, and for a long time I just thought it was unrequited’
The writer discusses telepathy, the ‘quiet problem’ facing the world and doing the one thing she said she’d never do
Spycatcher may have one final chapter
Author Tim Tate returns to battle with the Cabinet Office over the release of secret files; perhaps more fodder for the paperback edition
Neale Richmond should know better: calling grown women ‘girls’ is inherently belittling
Imagine anyone calling Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Indira Gandhi ‘the girls’
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