On the morning of September 11, 2001, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were in Dublin to meet US President George W ...
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Ever since the IRA’s historic decommissioning of weapons, the process which saw arms destroyed has been clothed in ac...
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Despite his hardline public stance, Jeffrey Donaldson privately said if the IRA allowed its arms dumps to be inspecte...
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The Government had a “private understanding with Sinn Féin” – and recorded it in written form – that it would set up ...
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The reform of policing was more damaging to the UUP than the lack of IRA decommissioning, the UUP told the Government.
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Sinn Féin “undoubtedly” stole votes in the 2001 General Election — the first time the party overtook the SDLP — the N...
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As important as it was for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to win over his party to restoring Stormont, that was never where hi...
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What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outs...
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For decades, Northern Ireland was an example of the danger of conflict. But for years it has exemplified the danger o...
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About half of all fuel sold in Northern Ireland was being smuggled from the Republic, according to declassified paper...
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Almost a year before the DUP appointed its first Executive ministers, the NIO privately knew Ian Paisley’s party was ...
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In the undergrowth of unionism, something is stirring. It’s still only a few rustling leaves rather than a stampede, ...
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A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-...
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The DUP once dismissed Jeffrey Donaldson as “Enoch Powell’s messenger boy” — and then he became their leader.
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The man who was beside Edgar Graham when he was murdered 40 years ago today — standing so close to him that he was co...
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Edgar Graham was just 29 years old when the IRA gunned him down on the street at Queen’s University in south Belfast.
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Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus,...
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What if the real Jeffrey Donaldson is not the man we’ve thought him to be? For years, Donaldson has widely been seen ...
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There were believed to be just 30 or 40 transgender people living in Northern Ireland in 2000, the First and Deputy F...
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The DUP should have talked directly to Sinn Féin before it did, even though that would have dismayed the supporters o...
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In the weeks leading up to Good Friday 1998 the mood within unionism gave little indication David Trimble would be ab...
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We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...
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We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...
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It is the most quintessentially Northern Irish example of being able to argue over something most people elsewhere wo...
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The man who for 15 years was the Executive’s most senior spin doctor has laid bare the impossibility of persuading th...
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The utter dominance of unionism in Northern Ireland’s first half century can be conveyed in three facts: in that peri...
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For more than a year and a half, the DUP has bored anyone in earshot by repeating the mantra that any deal on the NI ...
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At midnight a year ago today, Paul Givan’s resignation as First Minister collapsed devolution.
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The Good Friday Agreement was meant to unite Northern Ireland’s divided society, and it still unites a clear majority...
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Escalating parading disputes in the 1990s were in large part due to Sinn Fein orchestrating protests, the NIO believed.
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One of David Trimble’s special advisers told the head of the Civil Service he had employed a solicitor related to the...
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One of David Trimble’s special advisers told the head of the Civil Service he had employed a solicitor related to the...
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One of David Trimble’s special advisers told the head of the Civil Service he had employed a solicitor related to the...
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The final Drumcree crisis involved fears loyalists could cut the electricity supply, hundreds of damaged vehicles, 25...
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Expense claims by the now chairman of the Loyalist Communities Council were among those queried by civil servants in ...
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The Northern Ireland into which Dermot Nesbitt was born in 1947 was outwardly stable. The sacrifices of the Second Wo...
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Ex-UUP minister Dermot Nesbitt has lived through – and been influential in – decades of tumultuous change.
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David Trimble was the man who lost some of his friends, lost his seat and saw his party lose its position at the head...
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Edward Carson was buried in St Anne’s Cathedral after a state funeral, his remains having been borne to Belfast on a ...
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