The Troubles. I remember the darkness. It always seemed to be dark. A combination of winter and broken streetlights. As I ...

Is it totally fanciful to imagine that Donegal might serve as a model for a harmonious united Ireland? I have just returned ...

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin delivered the annual Seamus Mallon ‘Shared Home Place’ Lecture in the Navan Centre & Fort in Armagh this evening. You can watch back the full event which was chaired by Hume ...

Today, Wednesday, Sean will be cremated at Roselawn Crematorium. You will not know this as he left strict instructions there would be; no death notices, no mass, no eulogy, no memorial cards. Sean is ...

I was chatting with someone a while back whose daughter is a GP. She told me that her daughter and the other GP partners were on the verge of closing their practice due to an utterly unsustainable ...

I wonder what our media would report during silly season if it were not for the Orange celebrations leading up to and following the 12th July. Sammy Morrison of the TUV calls it Twelfth Derangement ...

What you need to know Sinn Féin leader criticised by deputy First Minister fo “talking down” NI economy During an interview on Monday (14 July) on Good Morning Britain, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou ...

After listening to the 45 minutes of complaint by Mervyn Gibson on BBC Talkback, I read the Orange Order statement in full ...