shared island

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin said opportunities to fulfil the potential of peace had been ‘squandered’.

For almost all of the long history of Dáil Éireann, the idea that any leader of Fianna Fáil would be regarded sympathetically by northern unionists at the same time as their Fine Gael counterpart was greeted with open hostility from the same quarter would have been dismissed as ludicrous.

Arrogance is the enemy of aspiration.

THE IRISH government has pledged to match funds already committed to cross-border projects as its seeks to create what Taoiseach Micheál Martin described as a "more connected, sustainable and prosperous island for all".

THE IRISH government's 10-year infrastructure and investment plan includes an entire section dedicated to shared island projects for the first time. The unprecedented move is thought to reflect the Dublin government's growing desire to set strategy in an all-Ireland context. 

EARLY school leaving in Northern Ireland is almost double that of the Republic.

The first known usage of the phrase perfidious Albion is often attributed to the Frenchman, Augustin Louis de Ximenes, in a poem written more than 225 years ago in relation to the political events in the last decade of the 18th century.