He goes on to outline the issues to be addressed through social policies: “Across the island there are over 1 million people who are education poor. One in four Irish adults have some form of literacy problem. In this state …

Winner of this month’s Bizarre Headline Award, this article (requires registration or subscription for readers outside Europe) begins with the apparently startling revelation that: “IRELAND was the seventh richest country in the world in 1870, according to new research. Far …

Roy Garland suggests that an end to what he terms the dual strategy once famously capture by Danny Morrison in his phrase “the ballot box and the Armalite”, will bring commensurate challenges to Unionism. “There will be nothing of substance …

Gerry Adams starts out by laying out the radical nature of the Sinn Fein’s political roots: “Too many of our colleagues and friends have paid too high a price. Too many of our councillors, in both states on this island, …

Actor and social entrepreneur, Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, is insistent that the suspension of Stormont has little practical consequence for most ordinary Nationalists: “This is not 1974. New nationalism is resurgent, it is on the march forward and it is strong. …

Veteran analyst Tom McGurk in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post suggests that Republicans: “…should more accurately read into Blair’s seemingly ham-fisted approach his clear recognition that the internal political dynamic for change has come from the republican movement all along. Blair’s …

Seamus Heaney reiterates the often heard during his visit to South Africa. Indeed the Letter reported on some of the main points de Klerk made in relation to the peace process on his visit to Ireland in August.

Weblogger Paul Dunne has the full script of Gerry Adams’ (known as NI’s shadow secretary of State by some) speech in Monaghan on Sunday. The speech may prove to be as important as the British Prime Minster‘s of a few …

Ronan Fanning comments on the changing of the guard at Stormont. He clearly rated Reid above the Northern leaders: “…the fact that John Reid was neither easy to intimidate nor easy to impress perhaps best explains why he gave such …

It was found in a van this morning in Belfast City centre. It’s probably too early to apportion responsibility, but this later BBC report says the PSNI think it was planted by the Continuity IRA.