Jim Wilson

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Loyalist Jim Wilson on the Newtownards Road in Belfast. Photograph: Stephen Davison
The Northern Ireland protocol: ‘All shades of unionist are really angry’

Jim Wilson has seen tension on the streets of Belfast for much of his life. Today, he uses the image of the boiling kettle to describe the atmosphere (...)

Jim Wilson: 'This isn’t what I signed up for: to be told by the British government to just ‘suck it up, and too bad this is the way it is going to be’.' Photograph: Enda O’Dowd
Loyalists on Brexit: ‘A one-way route to an economic united Ireland’

In the distance over Jim Wilson’s shoulder stand the famous yellow Harland and Wolff shipyard cranes Samson and Goliath, symbols on the landscape(...)

Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, with the chair of the Remembering Edward Bransfield Committee, Jim Wilson, at the unveiling of a monument to Bransfield in his home village of Ballinacurra in East Cork. Photograph: Barry Roche
Irish explorer who discovered Antarctica honoured in home village

Edward Bransfield, the pioneering Irish polar explorer and the first person to officially record discovering Antarctica, has been honoured with the un(...)

Lead author Dr Edmund Gilbert, who is based at RCSI, said the work was helping understand the role of genetic variation in human disease. File photograph: Getty
We're cousins: genetic map of Britain and Ireland shows common ancestry

A complete genetic map of Britain and Ireland, generated by scientists for the first time, provides proof of common ancestry going back hundreds of ye(...)

‘Long-tailed tits feeding from a bird feeder in an Irish garden. Photograph: Oran O’Sullivan
How to birdwatch in the garden this winter

The first time I spotted a woodpecker feeding from a peanut feeder in our family garden, I wondered if I was hallucinating. An agitated flurry of fea(...)

Presenting a cheque for €2,000 towards recovery programme of breast cancer at the fly fishing weekend at Mount Falcon.
Angling Notes: Casting for Recovery – breast cancer retreat at Mount Falcon Estate

Casting for Recovery UK and Ireland, the fly fishing programme for women with breast cancer, held a retreat at the Mount Falcon Estate at Ballina, Co (...)

Studio rat: Daniel Lanois. Photograph: Brad Barket/Getty/CBGB
Daniel Lanois: ‘That’s a better headline. F*** the little twerps – especially the ones from Dublin’

Daniel Lanois is on the road again. He’s calling from a hotel in Seattle as his tour heads up the west coast of the United States and into his nati(...)

Curlews: down to the last 98 breeding pairs. Illustration: Michael Viney
We all know we rely on nature. Let’s not throw away what’s left of it

Exploring, once, the origins of the EU’s ecological shopping list for the habitats directive, I came upon a memoir by someone who took part in mara(...)

After sunset: what avian dreams may come? Illustration: Michael Viney
Another Life: What do birds dream about?

This is the month of sunsets like bonfires, blazing up over the islands in luridly gilded flames or sinking redly and smokily into a frieze of purple (...)