Northern Ireland is held up as an exemplary case study of building sustainable peace. Recent violent activity from dissident republicans poses real threats, but isn't likely to establish a 32 county republic. So why continue?
In the wake of the historic handshake between the Queen and Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland and a Sinn Féin politician with IRA links in his past, Tom Griffin explores various conspiracy theories which exist regarding the Troubles and the subsequent peace process.
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what tools can we use to dismantle the unseeing ways ‘the enemy’ is passed between generations?
In the aftermath of the riots that swept across England last week, the UK government must not rush to adopt draconian policing tactics.
Was there state collusion in the killing of Rosemary Nelson, the solicitor who was blown up by loyalists at her home in Lurgan in 1999? Two very different answers to that question were put forward in the Commons this week, following the report of the inquiry into her death
It is not clear what unites political unionism in Northern Ireland in its present form.
Is the British government talking to dissident republicans?
Did journalists do enough to defend human rights during the troubles in Northern Ireland? That was a key question in a fascinating debate in Belfast last week under the auspices of Amnesty International and Féile an Phobail.
The Northern Ireland Executive mounted a striking show of unity in the face of several nights of violence in Belfast this week, as the marching season reached its annual 12
After years of taking years of evidence and an expenditure of nearly £200 million, a British Inquiry has dispassionately concluded that the army paratroopers shot 14 innocent people in 1971 without justification, an event that convinced many Northern Ireland Catholics that war had been declared up
When former Red Hand Commando Bobby Moffatt was shot dead in Belfast last month, senior loyalists suggested that the killing was the work of rogue elements. Stormont Assembly member Dawn
