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The Irish prime minister has urged the DUP to put politics aside to find a practical resolution to problems after Brexit. Micheal Martin said the stance of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party on the Northern Ireland protocol was disappointing. The DUP has vowed to scrap the mechanism, which has caused red tape on goods transported to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. Mr Martin said: “I’m sorry that the DUP has taken this stance, I...

LIVING standards are 20 per cent higher in Northern Ireland than the Republic, according to a Cambridge University academic.

Violence could return to Northern Ireland unless the Brexit borders agreement with the EU is torn up, former first minister David Trimble is warning. The former Ulster Unionist Party leader piled pressure on Boris Johnson to act by claiming the daunting new Irish Sea checks meant the province had been “annexed by the EU and is subject to EU laws”. Arguing the Northern Ireland Protocol had sparked “genuine grievances”, Lord Trimble said: “There...

The Irish prime minister has urged the DUP to put politics aside to find a practical resolution to problems after Brexit. Micheal Martin said the stance of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party on the Northern Ireland protocol was disappointing. The DUP has vowed to scrap the mechanism, which has caused red tape on goods transported to Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. Mr Martin said: “I’m sorry that the DUP has taken this stance, I...

Northern Ireland protocol ‘wilfully tears up’ Belfast Agreement, former UUP leader says

A bullet hole from 1916 on the OConnell monument in Dublin “There are positive and negative reactions to the word ‘fenian’. Usually it’s negative if it’s followed by the word ‘bastard’.” We are standing in the basement of the International bar in Wicklow Street in Dublin – myself, Jamie the photographer and a group of representatives of Failte Ireland, the Irish tourist board, listening to our host, Lorcan Collins, author, editor and founder of the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tou...

As Pikeville Independent Schools District announced it will transition to a more traditional in-person learning plan, school officials have shared how the decision was made.

As we go to press, Northern Ireland is immersed in elections, the outcome of which could mean serious implications for the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. Sinn Féin is expected to emerge as the dominant nationalist party, while the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will likely end up as the leading Unionist party. Under the peace agreement, this should lead to the province’s suspended government being revived, and led jointly by the DUP and Sinn Féin. But such a prospect is scarc...

Arlene Foster says Dublin, Brussels and London must acknowledge the "damage done" by the NI Protocol.

He was born Ramon Estevez, the seventh of ten siblings, nine boys and a girl, on August 3, 1940 in Dayton to a Spanish-born father and Irish-born mother (“she taught me all the Irish songs”). Estevez took the stage name Martin Sheen upon moving to New York in the early 1960s to pursue acting. (“Martin” came from the last name of a casting director friend; “Sheen” from the ubiquitous TV bishop.) Unlike countless other Hollywood types, Sheen has been married to his wife, Janet, for ov...