Two UVF gangs were responsible for the majority of the 127 cases examined in Mid-Ulster and south Armagh. Did Special Branch/MI5 agents direct them too?

The TUV’s Timothy Gaston taxed Givan in the assembly on the exchange. He said: “Sinn Féin are your partners, Mr Givan, ...

It’s exactly 100 years, give or take a couple of days, since the Free State abandoned the north. On December 7 1925, WT ...

A century ago, the north-east was the richest part of the island. Today it is the poorest and guaranteed to deteriorate ...

Before Bill Craig spoke from the Stormont balcony to the protesting crowds in 1972 when the toytown parliament was abolished, ...

Brian Feeney Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former SDLP councillor in Belfast and co-author of the award-winning ...

You may not agree with Peter Robinson’s brilliant characterisation of Jim Allister as the unionist equivalent of Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier still fighting a war that ended 30 years before.

Report after report from think tanks and academics have all laid bare the terrible damage Brexit did, and still does, to the British economy ...

Have you noticed how the tide’s been turning? In 2018 Simon Coveney said it was “unwise and unhelpful” to talk about a border poll. Irish unity wasn’t on the Fine Gael agenda; it was an aspiration. He ...

There’s much talk among the commentariat about reform in assembly rules so that an executive could be formed which wouldn’t have to include all the main parties. You can see why. The argument arises ...