On Easter Sunday Irish republicans across Ireland and globally will commemorate and celebrate the men and women who rose up against the British Emp...

The democratic question remains the key issue internationally. It has been so since people asserted their right to citizenship. At the heart of tha...

On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The UDR was a locally recruited militia estab...

One unionist twitter account at the weekend posed the question; “How many different ways can the DUP tell us we MUST vote DUP no matter how incompe...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to dominate the news agenda. Lines of tanks and armored vehicles inexorably move toward Kyiv and other Uk...

The big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news reports emerging fro...

The singular message emerging from the conflicting voices within political unionism at this time is their opposition to the election of a Sinn Féin...

Some politicians rarely, if ever, see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine an...

Collusion between British Intelligence, the RUC, UDR, British Army and Loyalist paramilitary organizations is a fact of life here. This is indisput...

Somehow human beings, including this columnist, put more stead in twenty year anniversaries than in nineteen year ones. So in the case of Bloody Su...

The drum beat and the chant echoed across the emptiness of Milltown Cemetery. Despite our heavy coats the January cold penetrated through to the bo...

I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder under...