Scotland

Waterford-based Suir Engineering acquires Scottish rival

Deal will help boost revenue while strengthening Irish group’s presence in Britain

A novel exploration of the shared Gaelic heritage of Ireland and Scotland

Angeline King and Ciarán Ó Maitiú on the background to her novel, The Secret Diary of Stephanie Agnew

Brian Cox on costars, politics and death: ‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’

Succession star Cox, who recently found out he’s 88% Irish, is often betrayed as grumpy, but he may be one of life’s great enthusiasts

Fianna Fáil seeks royal treatment as Simon and Micheál see the crown jewels

Miriam Lord: Scotland shows off its crown jewels to an Irish contingency, putting haggis, rather than government formation, on the menu

SNP lays traps for Labour in Scotland’s draft budget

Scottish government pledges to abolish in Scotland the two-child benefit cap that the UK Labour government has so far resisted scrapping

Alex Salmond obituary: Commanding figure who came close to breaking up the United Kingdom

He was a man of ideas, an effective communicator and had built a good relationship with Scottish business

‘It’s a whole different ball game’: Hurling Shinty International promises to be an old-school throwback

Twelve counties represented in Irish team for Saturday’s game against Scotland in Ennis

Skeleton service - Frank McNally on why horses’ heads (and the occasional saint) used to be buried under buildings

The foundation sacrifice

Alex Salmond: Scotland’s talented and flawed ‘colossus’ who idolised Charles Stewart Parnell

Scottish nationalist politician died suddenly on Saturday, as his friends insist his independence dream will live on

Ian Rankin: ‘Serious writers are attracted to the crime novel because it takes on morally complex themes in a digestible way’

The Rebus creator on his flawed police inspector’s fall from grace, the Jekyll and Hyde sides of his hometown Edinburgh and the genius of Muriel Spark

Who Killed Emma? There’s an extraordinary twist to this podcast about a murder that went unsolved for 19 years

Podcast review: Journalist Samantha Poling became witness at a murder trial in a development that led to this podcast being made temporarily unavailable

Where does your salmon come from? Fish farm escape highlights questions for consumers

The differences between ‘farmed’, ‘organically farmed’ and ‘wild’ salmon may be unclear to shoppers while imports from Scotland, Norway and the Faroe Islands can be labelled as Irish

There are good reasons for Irish people to pay close attention to what’s happening in Scotland

Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland

‘We need to inject some passion’: Young Scottish independence activists think the movement has lost verve

Union supporters and those in favour of independence are almost ‘eeksie peeksie’ in polls but the Scottish National Party appears to have put its breakaway dream on ice for now

Scottish National Party leader warns of daunting financial challenge for Scotland

John Swinney gives first conference address to the party since taking over as leader in summer

Bruised SNP gathers in Edinburgh as senior figure offers potential olive branch to Alex Salmond

Scottish Nationalist Party members meet for the first time after it was trounced by Labour in July’s UK election

Geography lessons in the aisles

Browsing the supermarket shelves in search of a taste of home

Labour eyes control of Scotland’s parliament after routing SNP in election

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery

Scotland refuse to contemplate another group stage exit

Scotland would almost certainly progress to the last 16 of Euro 2024 with a win. Defeat, however, would continue the Scottish trend of ­failure to reach the knock-out phase of finals

A woman walked in and a brawl started: A night watching the Euros in a Glasgow pub

Glasgow Letter: Scottish city’s boisterous reputation is enthusiastically fulfilled one crazy evening watching the Euros

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