Working towards Irish Unity

A guest post by author Ben Collins. It is often said that two things in life are inevitable, death and taxes. I would like to

1. Shinners on a roll This was a spectacular result for Sinn Fein, by any measure. The ambition of dominating Irish politics, North and South,

Imagine people in Britain were told Brexit would not happen because only a narrow majority had voted for it? That the issue was so divisive

There’s something of an irony about Northern Ireland’s local elections taking place two weeks after the rest of the UK’s. So enraptured would municipal vote

A guest post by journalist and blogger Theo Macdonald. The term ceasefire babies describes those of us who have grown up in an era when

Ray Bassett is a former Irish diplomat and was intimately involved in preparing the groundwork for the negotiations and the GFA itself. He reflects on

‘I think it will happen and I think Britain will be pleased.’  So replied Liam Neeson to Sky News’s political editor, Beth Rigby, when she asked him

486. The total audience at one of Jamie Bryson’s anti-Protocol rallies? The number of Catholics Kate Hoey believes work at BBC NI? The annual millions

So, there we have it: the Windsor Framework. The oldest trick in the book is to rebrand a problem.  It might still be the Northern