The long shadow hanging over the FAI
Late one evening last month, a single tweet set off a chain reaction that would change Irish football forever.
Mark Tighe, a reporter for...
Northern Ireland rights promises ‘must be legislated’
Recent commitments made to Irish citizens in Northern Ireland guaranteeing full access to EU benefits must be signed into legislation, human rights groups and...
Not In Our Name: RIP Lyra
The decision, late in the day, by the DUP and Sinn Féin to issue a joint statement calling for calm heads in Derry following...
Easter March by Republican group condemned
A daylight march by a Republican group affiliated to the New IRA, the dissident terrorist group who have reportedly admitted responsibility for the murder...
Mother and Baby homes: a legacy of cruelty and concealment
Irish society must “atone” for sending women to institutions and burying babies in unmarked graves, Leo Varadkar has said in response to last week’s...
Tributes pour in for journalist shot dead during Derry riots
Michael D. Higgins and figures across the political spectrum have paid their tributes to journalist Lyra McKee after she was murdered during riots in...
May’s 2022 festival ‘likely to heighten tensions’ in NI
British prime minister Theresa May’s plan to throw a nationwide party celebrating British culture may “inflame tensions” in Northern Ireland since it is set...
Blair and Ahern step in to ‘rescue’ Good Friday Agreement
Twenty-one years after the Good Friday Agreement Brexit is now the “most serious threat to peace in the North”, according to the two government...
Entire FAI board should be replaced, say Irish soccer fans in UK
The entire FAI board should be replaced for “disrespecting” fans amid the current crisis engulfing the association, supporters’ clubs in the UK have said....
Magazine criticised by ambassador for “anti-Irish sentiment”
Adrian O’Neill, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, has criticised a political magazine for lapsing “into an anti-Irish sentiment", alleging that recent articles about...