As with the Good Friday agreement in 1998, both sides in the Gaza war need to negotiate in good faith – but this is sorely lacking.
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland’s first minister Michelle O'Neill greet crowds at an event to mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising.
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Sinn Féin continues to abstain from attending the House of Commons but it still runs candidates, both to boost its own position and deny its rivals the seats.
Gavin Robinson was only confirmed as the DUP’s new leader after the election was called.
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With the UK heading for an election on July 4, it can feel like the result is pre-ordained. Labour has maintained a decisive poll lead for over a year and nothing Rishi Sunak does appears to shift the…
Immigration ruling in Northern Ireland is holding the UK to account on its human rights commitments.
Asylum seeker encampments have emerged in Dublin as the city struggles with a housing and migrant accommodation crisis.
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Being severely sunburnt as a child more than doubles the chance of developing future skin cancer but less than half of primary schools questioned in new research have a sun safety policy.
Hands Across the Divide: a statue in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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In The Conversation Weekly podcast, researcher Colin Irwin explains how peace polls can help build consensus in conflict negotiations – but only if all parties are at the table.
Michelle O'Neill, first minister of Northern Ireland, pictured in front of Stormont.
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O'Neill has pledged to represent ‘Catholics, Protestants and dissenters’ but has made plain that she sees that as compatible with a referendum on Irish unity within a decade.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks to the media.
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There are plenty of valuable parallels to be drawn from the Good Friday peace process that might be applied to Braverman’s thinking on protests. But she instead chose to inflame tensions.
British soldiers stand behind barbed wire in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1970. Critics of the new law say it will not aid reconciliation and risks deepening divisions.
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Opponents of the U.K. government’s Northern Ireland Troubles Act argue it violates the Good Friday Agreement by denying victims their right to justice.
A boat in Kinnego marina surrounded by toxic blue-green algae.
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