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A meeting between British and Irish ministers at Maryfield, the base of the Anglo-Irish Secretariat, descended into jibes over how the BSE crisis was handled north and south of the border. Northern officials accused the Republic of taking a “protectionist response” to the issue, according to newly declassified government files. The documents – which include prime ministerial briefing papers, internal memos and draft reports from within the Northern Ireland Civil Service in the early 1990s...

EDUCATION minister Peter Weir has been involved in politics for decades, first as a member of the Ulster Unionists, then as a DUP representative.

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The genesis of Prime Minister Tony Blairs role in the Good Friday Agreement has been laid bare, after a Cabinet briefing note weeks into his premiership hinted at a historic accord with his Republic of Ireland counterpart. Mr Blair and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were among those lauded for their roles in bringing about the peace accord in 1998 after years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Documents on Anglo-Irish relations from Mr Blairs first few weeks in office, following New Labours surge t...

Other famous faces we lost this year ... Neil Peart: Drummer from Canadian prog-rock trio Rush died in January aged 67 following a battle with brain cancer. Kobe Bryant: Former basketball superstar (41) was killed in January alongside his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash. Kirk Douglas: One of the last stars of Hollywoods Golden Age died aged 103 in February. Caroline Flack: The Love Island host (40) took her own life at her home in Stoke Newington, north-east London in F...

John Hume tried to restore IRA ceasefire through an initiative with Protestant church leaders John Hume in 2004. Picture by Margaret McLaughlin Éamon Phoenix The IRA ceasefire was broken in 1996 by the Canary Wharf bombing State papers, mainly from 1997, have been released by the Public Records Office today. Historian and Irish News columnist Dr Éamon Phoenix looks at files which undercover attempts to restore the IRA ceasefire, the ongoing fall-out from the...

Republicans abandoned violence because it was “unsuccessful and inconvenient”, one of the architects of the Northern Ireland peace process has said. Lord (John) Alderdice led the Alliance Party from 1987 through to the negotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. In December 1997 he discussed Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’ visit to Downing Street and the broader republican leadership, newly-published British Government archived documents from the Public Record Office of Northern Irela...

It was a year when the threat of illness and death, in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, seemed to shape our relationship with celebrity culture. The usual charity songs and self-important social media posts struck the wrong note as ordinary people - doctors, nurses, paramedics - were elevated to the status of true stars.

Women Today, a precursor of Liveline, broke many taboos and she broached many hidden topics such as female sexuality. She said in an interview: “It sounds almost medieval now, but if you did anything on reproduction or marriage that wasn’t exactly in tune with the Roman Catholic Church’s line, you’d get slaughtered. You couldn’t mention the word ‘orgasm’.” In 1980, she won the Prix Italia for a documentary on abortion. She interviewed a woman who was to have an abortion in Engl...

Netanyahu up for Nobel Peace Prize   December 11, 2020 (JNS) — Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Lord David Trimble has nominated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office. Lord Trimble won the prize himself in 1998 for his efforts to find a solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. As a Nobel laureate, his nomination of Netanyahu and Prince b...