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BBC News By Mark Simpson image captionA 12ft statue of Sir Edward Carson was unveiled at Stormont in 1933 The course of Irish history changed 100 years ago with the decision of Sir Edward Carson to stand down from the unionist leadership and relinquish the chance to become Northern Ireland's first prime minister. A century on, his great-grandson believes it was a mixture of personal and political factors which led to Carson's momentous decision, announced on 4 February 1921. A large statue of Carson was erected at Stormont in spite of his reluctance to lead the new parliament in 1921. His gre...

TV Editor Tonight's top TV tips include Panorama: Boxing and the Mob, Fleabag arrives on RTÉ2, Davy's Toughest Team sees Davy Fitzgerald motivating seven young men, while the brilliant Parks and Recreation lands on Netflix . . . Pick of the Day This is sure to attract a pretty big Irish audience. Darragh MacIntyre investigates organised crime's links to the sport, including the involvement a drug cartel's leader in setting up Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua's world title bout. A top boxing trainer is shot and badly wounded. A former boxer gets executed in broad daylight. And a gangland killing...

Cal Flyn’s fascinating feature on the implications of falling birth rates failed to mention the obvious, but still politically controversial, panacea – immigration (“ As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ‘ghost villages’”, Focus). Sooner or later, far-sighted governments need to realise that the only way to replace their lost younger generations is to encourage immigration. Such population movements will provide younger workers to...

Far-sighted governments must realise that the only way to replace lost younger generations is to look abroad

Sworn enemies: the real story of Old Bailey clash that ruined Oscar Wilde Dalya Alberge © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Apic/Getty Images He was the brilliant lawyer whose brutal 1895 cross-examination of Oscar Wilde in one of the most famous trials in British history led to the Irish dramatist’s imprisonment for homosexuality, and to his ultimate ruin. Now a previously unpublished letter reveals that Sir Edward Carson’s attack on Wilde in the Old Bailey was partly personal – a loathing that went beyond his job in defending the Marquess of Queensberry in the il...