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There have been calls for the establishment of a covert surveillance commissioner after it emerged the PSNI secretly searched the phone records of a journalist who was investigating the force.

A quarter of a century on from the first sitting of the Assembly, the former Women’s Coalition politician finds a tree she planted at Stormont back then

It is very welcome that US president Joe Biden will address the joint Houses of the Oireachtas next week.

The big issue in Northern Ireland is not the Union versus a united Ireland but the way our political class is unable to grasp the challenges of a changing world, writes Suneil Sharma

Americans do not often look overseas for solutions to problems, but in this case we should.

THE basic functions of the police include law enforcement and maintenance of order. But often it is witnessed that in the rough and tumble of policing for the sake of maintaining and enforcing order, the police violate rules and norms of laws, leading to lawlessness and dishonest enforcement of laws

Monarchism is embedded in Northern Ireland’s Ulster unionist identity, explains David Mitchell, from Trinitys School of Religion Theology and Peace Studies, in this piece for The Conversation.

Released in 1999, the Patten Report is a good tool for Minneapolis.

The whole issue of policing is a touchstone issue. If you want to know how far the movement has to go you only have to look at the number of Patten recommend...

Three hundred guests attended the Éire Society of Boston’s dinner at which Kathleen M. O’Toole was recognized as the 2019 Gold Medal award recipient.