Former SDLP leader Mark Durkan says there is a ‘John Hume-sized hole in the conversation’ surrounding the options for ...

"No one should face fear for simply stepping forward to serve their community" says Mayor of Derry and Strabane ...

Support for a united Ireland has increased by seven percentage points in just two years, a new survey shows. The growth in ...

The book is at its most interesting when Durkan is quizzed about John Hume and what his predecessor had been trying to ...

Last week on the same day I was involved in two very interesting conversations about the way forward for this island. I had lunch with a young Belfast-born, Dublin-resident solicitor called Ross Neill ...

A row over the Education Secretary’s decision to refuse Bangor Academy and Rathmore Primary School integrated status has ...

Sinn Féin Economy Minister Conor Murphy has been elected to the Seanad (Irish parliament's upper chamber) and will quit his ...

Meanwhile, in the south, Micheál Martin announced the ‘Taoiseach’s 11’ – the 11 senators the taoiseach is entitled to ...

A row over the refusal of Stormont’s Education Minister to grant two Co Down schools integrated status has spilled over to ...

A row over the refusal of Stormont’s Education Minister to grant two Co Down schools integrated status has spilled over to the local council, with unionists accusing the Alliance party of “dragging ...

MICHAEL Healy-Rae is one of a handful of ministers being left to hold the line at home on St Patrick’s Day as Government reps ...