Margaret Thatcher

‘Feed the Scousers’ chants are imbued with anti-migrant and anti-Irish sentiment

The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello Concerto

Keir Starmer hails ‘big turning point’ for Labour as Lib Dems also make comeback

Dublin council chief warns against merger of councils under directly elected mayor

The British prime minister is less likely to be brought down by his private behaviour than by his government’s record in office

If Macron is re-elected, it will be less because of what he is than what he is not: a crypto-fascist

London Letter: Light cast on exit from body in which UK not ‘influential founder member’

An Irishwoman’s Diary

An Irish comedian can’t find the funnies in Boris Johnson

She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors

In his impotent rage Jeffrey Donaldson seems unable to escape grim logic of Powellism

Dubliner who never imagined working in insurance is now heading up Arachas – and he’s on an acquisition hunt

London Letter: Government’s military assistance to Ukraine deflects from its dwindling diplomatic role in relation to the crisis

Jackie Stanley and her late husband, NCAD’s Campbell Bruce, were giants on art scene

PM’s plan involves persuading MPs to postpone a decision on his fate until after May local elections

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

The relationship between Albert Reynolds and John Major was a key factor that led to the IRA ceasefire of August 1994

UK’s newly appointed chief negotiator with EU wants ‘comprehensive solution’

Conservative cites concerns over ‘direction of travel’ of negotiations in letter to Johnson

Diverging from EU rules essential for Britain to prosper, David Frost tells conference

Serious defeat could turn Alberto Fernández into lame-duck leader for rest of his mandate

Ireland has made ambitious pledges, although the rhetoric is failing to meet reality

‘I’ve done 150 movies. I can’t walk, let alone run. Also, my mind’s not as agile as it used to be’

Fr Pat Browne was due to officiate at wedding of murdered UK MP’s daughter this year

Those who do tough physical jobs, now called ‘key workers’, are in short supply

Stuart Mathieson: International efforts can have an effect within our lifetimes

Tokyo Letter: The possibility of a historic first has enlivened an otherwise dull race

The Queen’s Gambit won best limited series, another first for the streaming platform

Newton Emerson: Unity advocates are ‘putting everything on the table’ then ducking under it

Like all postwar German leaders, Merkel walked a tightrope, knowing that demands around Europe for greater leadership from Berlin, if met, would trigger denunciations of German EU hegemony

Late British diplomat David Goodall recalls the creation of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did not

Partition, 1921 TV review: The politician-turned-railway guru has reached the end of the line

Coveney says there is ‘some strain’ between governments – understatement of the year

Count under way in Scotland in most important election since devolution

Investors, landlords and owner-occupiers may all wish they had shared when they had the chance

Poems discovered in Charles Haughey’s private papers after he died aged 80 in 2006

There’s nothing like a pandemic to make nostalgia a guaranteed hit

The party’s pervasive presence in the US has long been a challenge for Irish governments

Genealogy site MyHeritage uses deep learning technique to bring images to life