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Fourth (or is it fifth?) times the charm it seems as London and Dublin have revealed their new framework to tackle the festering wound of legacy issues in Northern Ireland. We have of course been here ...

The DUP went back to the La Mon Hotel for the first time in nearly a decade. Several hundred delegates gathered as the party marks 18 months back in government and is gearing up for the 2027 Assembly ...

Prior to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed, the Sultan of the Ottoman empire, paved the way for Byzantine/Roman collapse by erecting a fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus Straights ...

Jennifer Todd is a distinguished academic. She is a former professor in UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations; former director of UCD’s Institute for British-Irish Studies, and ...

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We have launched a powerful new series of short films entitled ‘Perspectives on Lough Neagh’. Commissioned to explore subjects as complex as blue-green algae, the loss of habitats and species, and ...