Northern Ireland

British spies and the IRA

Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part

Features
The lonely end of a political failure

Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection

Artillery Row
Should there be set texts for MPs?

Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom

Artillery Row
The lies of Sinn Fein

Sectarian smears against Unionists have been exposed as the falsehoods they always were. Will anyone bother to say sorry?

Artillery Row
The government is failing Northern Ireland

Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework

Artillery Row
Why compensate the families of terrorists?

It would be immoral as well as irresponsible

Artillery Row
Fighting back against the IRA mob

Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave

Books
The limits of Rishi Sunak’s words

Negotiations between the government and the DUP are riddled with problems

Artillery Row
Raped by the IRA

A traumatised victim was interrogated in secret by republicans, let down by a botched prosecution and smeared in the pages of the Guardian

Features
Fathers of the republic

A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland

Features