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Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the power is beginning to seep away from current Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the date for his handover of power to Tanaiste Leo Varadkar approaches the six-month mark.

Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'

One hundred and two years ago, James Craig, the first prime minister in the new statelet in Belfast, proclaimed that his Parliament was designed to have a Protestant majority “in perpetuity.” Sinn Féin easily outpolled their main rivals in Northern Ireland's recent elections, shattering unionist hegemony,

Dublin, May 16 (EFE).- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended the need to pass laws to be able to revoke certain parts of the Brexit Protocol for Northern Ireland, the mechanism that is hindering the formation of a government to share power in the region. During a visit to Belfast on Monday, Johnson …

Agriculture has been in the mainstream news this month for both serious and comic reasons.

Suzanne is a protestant, her husband paul a catholic, but for them this is about business, not religion or tradition. how many rugs have you got here? just under 250,000. for pauls rug company, brexit means extra paperwork importing from great britain, but the protocol means it is easier exporting across the eu. it gives us in northern ireland an opportunity for one of the first times in 100 years to trade efficiently with the rest of europe and with the uk, and with gb, and to really benefit fr...

The reversal of that. but for some northern irish businesses who import materials from great britain, the brexit protocol has meant a tangle of extra red tape. it makes logistics much more difficult, but companies like ours and others within the industry have said that was going to be an outcome of the deal that was negotiated. there are fears a storm is coming. the winds of brexit, the protocol and politics combining to buffet the people of this long—suffering island. mark easton, bbc news, n...

But for them this is about business, not religion or tradition. how many rugs have you got here? just under 250,000. for pauls rug company, brexit means extra paperwork importing from great britain, but the protocol means it is easier exporting across the eu. it gives us in northern ireland an opportunity for one of the first times in 100 years to trade efficiently with the rest of europe and with the uk, and with gb, and to really benefit from our situation here which is quite unusual, and what...

From the old irish province and counties of ulster, in the 1920s politicians drew a boundary line between the united kingdom and the new republic, a border twisted and tweaked to create a territory where british unionists would always control affairs. it was very messy. but today, a century later, and the largest political party in northern ireland supports irish nationalism. and now suddenly that boundary settlement which caused so much violence 100 years ago has been thrown up in the air, so i...

Lets go live to stormont tonight, and speak to our ireland correspondent chris page. borisjohnson is to visit belfast next week. where are things heading? well, reeta, stormont has reached a new stage of stalemate, its been known all week pretty much it was very unlikely ministers would be appointed here today, but now as well as not having a government northern ireland doesnt even have a devolved assembly. looking ahead, well, the dup leader sirjeffrey donaldson has suggested he does expect the...