Despite its many flaws, Brexit may have paved the way for a more constructive conversation about Northern Ireland’s future.

Proclamation will be read by an Officer from the Defence Forces at Dublin's GPO this Sunday to commemorate the Easter Rising.

GREEN SHOOTS: Evan Ferguson of Republic ... to Ireland in the next few years. I think there is some really good signs in there, but there is also some problems.” One potential area of concern ...

The gap in economic performance and well-being indicators between the north and south of the border is widening, a report has ...

Police in Northern Ireland have issued an appeal around a blue backpack in their search for missing Mayo man George Brennan.

A new bill allowing Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to vote in the Republic’s presidential elections would be “historic,” ...

While the 1937 Bunreacht na hÉireann gave Ireland many of the features of a republic, as Kate O’Malley ... impressed by its advantages, either political or commercial’. It should be noted ...

Differences in the time spent on waiting lists, household disposable incomes and unemployment levels between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have been assessed by a new study.

Distilled down into one key comparable metric, though, there is bleak news for Northern Ireland. Life expectancy of 80.4 is a full two years less than in the Republic, and below the 80.7 years that is ...

Support for Sinn Féin is growing in the North, but support for a united Ireland isn’t. This is not as strange as it might ...

A ban on bringing meat and cheese home from Europe is said to be designed to protect British livestock, but is another ...

Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former ...