As current Six Nations champions Ireland prepare for England this weekend, Michael Cooke analyses how interim boss Simon Easterby can retain momentum to pull off a historic third successive Six Nation ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Off the back of six BAFTA nominations, the helmer discusses the determination that drove him to make one of the riskiest, buzziest and most audacious indie films of the year: "One way or another, I ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war  – and why the peace process is far from over.

Joelinton picked up a yellow card in the clash against Bournemouth and had to be pulled away from trouble at half-time by ...

THE announcement on 15 January by World Monuments Fund (WMF) of its support for the rescue of the Assembly Rooms is a game-changer! Amongst 25 heritage sites world-wide selected as part of the 2025 ...

Ordering Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn to set up a public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown was legally and constitutionally wrong, the Court of Appeal has been told.

A Labour frontbencher has defended “abruptly” dropping the appeal against a High Court ruling that parts of a Troubles-related Act passed by the Conservatives were “unlawful”. The Northern Ireland ...

The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 would have blocked compensation for former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and hundreds of others interned without trial in the ...

Giving Gerry Adams compensation for his internment during the Troubles would be “repugnant ... a decision made in a court case in Northern Ireland where that section of the Act was found ...