The Taoiseach’s new constitutional research body will examine three futures for the island: a unitary state, a devolved united Ireland and the status quo. Rather than staking everything on a border ...

Paul Muldoon  the boy from the Moy ( I can still see the youth in him at 75), is probably the last living survivor of the  group of poets who were the best and brightest of the age of the Troubles.

I’ll be exceptionally blunt in this post (some may be pleased to hear). Carla Lockhart and now Diane Forsythe want Michelle O’Neill removed as First Minister. Whilst unionist anger over Drumcree is ...

The first survey of opinion on Drumcree has been published by polling organisation More In Common in an extensive report. To a large extent the results will not provoke much surprise. In general, the ...

The Royal Irish Academy’ s Dictionary of Irish Biography has just published its entry for Maurice Hayes. in my book Maurice was a principal hero of the Troubles, the very model for adapting a Catholic ...

Last week, there was a ‘Dallas’ joke. This week, a ‘Derry Girls’ joke. However ‘Blue Lights’ remained no laughing matter as the show reached the penultimate episode of its fourth series. Before we get ...

The fallout from Drumcree continued to dominate at Stormont this week. Calls within the DUP for Michelle O’Neill’s removal grew louder, led by Carla Lockhart, who now looks set to leave the party ...

In 1988, a Moscow paper called Nagorno-Karabakh “our Northern Ireland.” In Part III, Peter Emerson asks why “this or that?” questions divide us, from Belfast to the Balkans, and makes the case for ...

While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...

While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday. Brian O'NeillManaging Editor of Slugger ...