More detail from the Galway Advertiser on Donncha Ó hÉallaithe’s report on the falling number of Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht areas. Via North Atlantic Skyline.

Although the state papers from both Britain and the Republic were available to journalists nearly two weeks ago, some of the stories are only taking on a fuller shape now. Despite some considerable spin, this piece by Steve James goes …

Today interview with Loyalist paramilitary leader Johnny Adair appears in the print version of the Irish Times (with another due in tomorrow’s Sunday Tribune), the day after he has had his license to be out of jail revoked yesterday, and …

In the subscription only Irish Times, biographer and critic Bernard Adams reviews ‘A shared childhood: the story of the integrated schools in Northern Ireland’ by Fionnuala O’Connor. Evidently O’Connor has managed to traverse some extremely problematic territory with some alacrity: …

James Murray Brown in the print version of the FT goes a little further than most correspondents and suggests that the broad outline of a deal may have been settled in a series of meetings at Downing Street with Sinn …

Far from indicating a dangerous split within the DUP, veteran Republican Tommy McKearney believes Will Hay’s recent statement that his party will be happy to meet with Sinn Fein under certain conditions only adds to the pressure building in Sinn …

Hugh Orde told the US National Committee on Foreign Policy that support for his leadership is not universal within the ranks of the PSNI

Jude Collins initiates some open-ended probing of the practical questions around any future unification of Ireland, based on correspondence with a protestant reader. As this is an issue that rarely receives much consideration in the media, let us have your …

The Belfast Telegraph’s editorial re-iterates David Trimble’s message to the IRA yesterday by suggesting that the IRA’s betrays a lack of understanding of what is needed to get the process started again. However there are some optimistic signs after Martin …

Not strictly to do with the North, but the Republic has been named as the world’s most open economy for the second year in a row in survey for the US based Foreign Policy magazine.