Good Friday Agreement
Sinn Fein’s Caoimhe Archibald accuses Hilary Benn of ‘blatant disregard’ for communities
Stormont’s Economy Minister said the NI Secretary had become an ‘apologist for a Tory austerity agenda’.
Tom Kelly: Turbocharge the Good Friday Agreement and end divisions, not difference
Sectarianism was never been properly addressed or faced down
Brian Feeney: Unity is the Irish state’s constitutional imperative, so why aren’t Simon Harris and Micheál Martin planning for it?
They ignore the central point of the Good Friday Agreement
Sinn Fein ‘ignored role of 3,000 deaths in damaging community relations’
A former NIO minister had launched a consultation on a new good relations strategy for NI in 2003.
Irish Government doubted UK campaign to ‘save David’ Trimble
The Irish Government wanted to appeal to the UK side against ‘manipulating’ every scenario for favourable election results in Northern Ireland.
Government was lobbied in 1998 to do more for ex-prisoners, records show
Hundreds of prisoners were released from jail as part of the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Ireland blamed Northern Ireland Office for ‘damaging leaks’, records show
The confidential briefing note is part of the tranche of documents made public by the Irish National Archive.
Republic’s new government should begin planning for united Ireland, says Colum Eastwood
The former SDLP leader Mr Eastwood said conversations about a unity referendum had “moved to a different level” since Brexit.
Stormont votes to extend post-Brexit trade arrangements for four more years
The vote passed on a straight majority basis in the face of opposition from unionist MLAs.
DUP and Sinn Féin’s contempt for Stormont reform leaves us stuck with lowest common denominator politics: Newton Emerson
A look back at the week that was