John Bull
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The Tipperary politician behind a huge Irish banking scandal
- Abroad
- January 15, 2020, 07:10
Irish banks and those at their helm, have never been strangers to controversy. The recent tracker mortgage scandal, Anglo Irish loans debacle and even(...)

State papers: British archives show ‘other side’ of diplomatic jousting on North
- Politics
- December 30, 2019, 01:14
Presumably the Anglo-Irish desk at the Department of Foreign Affairs was a clearing house for gossip, insights and even some kites, leaks and scoops t(...)

Some of the most insightful reporting into Britain’s Brexit contortions is found in the non-UK press. A German news magazine reported that Jacob Rees-(...)

Fintan O’Toole: John Bull, not Michel Barnier, is undermining the union
- Politics
- October 6, 2018, 06:00
Arlene Foster spoke this week about the DUP’s “blood red line” of avoiding any post-Brexit differences between Northern Ireland and Britain. The image(...)

Looking for an answer to the national question
- Stage
- March 5, 2018, 06:00
In 1910, George Bernard Shaw wrote a short comedy called The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, which was to be performed as a fundraiser for a campaign to est(...)

‘I’m a cultural culchie, baptised in red lemonade and raised by bullocks’
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 3, 2017, 05:00
It’s December, and thanks to “liberals” (sorry for whispering but I’m in The Irish Times office) there’s absolutely no sign of any celebration anywher(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Britain’s Irish question becomes Ireland’s English question
- Opinion
- October 21, 2016, 15:59
In the satire 1066 and All That, it is claimed that William Gladstone “spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish question; unf(...)

1916 speech: Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 25, 2016, 19:37
The following is the full text of a speech delivered by Michael Jackson, archbishop of Dublin, launching Dublin City University’s 1916 centenary progr(...)

Marking of 1916 in 1966 spurred much anxiety in North - bishop
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 25, 2016, 19:23
People in the Republic may still not be aware how 1966 commemorations of the Easter Rising alienated people of a different identity in Northern Irelan(...)

EU economy data may show return to growth
- Ireland
- August 13, 2013, 01:00
Has the European economy’s nosedive ended? Tomorrow morning, the EU’s statisticians in Luxembourg will release one of the most eagerly anticipated set(...)