Introducing Common Ground - A message from the Editor: This new project will focus on the inter-connectedness between North and South, between Britain and Ireland, but also between the constituent parts of the UK and within Northern Ireland itself 

Opinion: Some see July 12th bonfires as sectarian. For others, they’re about social cohesion

Partition was ‘designed to be intractable’, says Micheál Martin

Government fears referendum to give Irish diaspora vote in presidential elections ‘could be lost’

Easyjet’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou: ‘Michael O’Leary has this philosophy that if you lower customer expectations, you can lower your costs’

National histories are always something of a stitch-up - English identities in particular

Irish unification would cost €152m annually to give Northern Irish civil servants pay parity, report says

Population of the Republic grew by nearly a third in 20 years, study finds

Paul Gosling: You might as well expect Conor McGregor and Paul Murphy to work together as Stormont to function

Senator George Mitchell: The man Ian Paisley called ‘a foreigner and a pro-Irish republican’

Irish in Archway: Death of an ‘old boy from Ireland’ in London-Irish suburb

Stormont is slow, afraid of new thinking and costly, says report

For Stewart, the British-Irish relationship is, or should be, Whitehall’s central relationship, with the UK’s only land border and with linguistic and social connections ‘unlike those that exist anywhere else in Europe’

Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’

Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s must have been groaning with future celebrities of the diaspora

US multinationals will be slow to return operations to US, Ibec leader says

Diarmaid Ferriter: Was it for Keir Starmer’s craven display before Trump that London endured the Blitz?

‘We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels’

‘This is huge’: Northern Ireland traders hopeful about new EU-UK deal as they battle Brexit ‘mess’

Derry’s shirt factories: ‘You can still see the imprints of the factory girls’ feet on the concrete stairs’

Hauliers seek to keep post-storm Holyhead ferry schedule after ‘transformative’ impact on trade flow