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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.
Unionists have hit out at Sinn Fein after the party said the European Union could help create a united Ireland and split up ...
The Republic would oppose a European Union tax on US technology companies in any escalation of a trade war between the union ...
The gap in economic performance and well-being indicators between the north and south of the border is widening, a report has ...
Leo Varadkar, a former Taoiseach of Ireland, appealed to Irish America to help in the project of Irish Unity while speaking ...
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 ...
Economist Esmond Birnie has said the Republic of Ireland is currently “very vulnerable” to damage from US President Donald Trump, as a new report is published showing the Republic outperforming ...
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 ...
Historian and political commentator Brian Feeney has been a columnist with The Irish News for three decades. He is a former ...
A new report showing that Northern Ireland lags behind the Republic on a wide range of social and economic areas should give ...