Stories from 2017-09-20

Sinn Féin - British government showing "duplicity" over legacy cases

Claire Simpson

Sinn Fein not gatekeepers of equality - Empey

In North impasse, conflicting words over language

Anthony Neeson

If you want to see true cost of an Irish Language Act, look to Canada (Jun 9)

John Wilson

Making the case for Irish unity entails moulding and working a Northern Irish state

How the US special envoy to Northern Ireland functioned before Trump

Ray O'Hanlon

European Parliament's top Brexit link to meet Northern Ireland leaders

Commissioner's views make sense on Brexit (Sep 18)

Editorial

Future of the Border - good intentions not enough

Editorial

Brexit, Theresa May, and the Ulster Plantation (Jun 9)

Steven McCaffery

DUP £1bn deal 'very bad for Northern Ireland', says former Lib Dem leader Ashdown

Where did Theresa May's new friends, the DUP, come from? (Jun 9)

Eamonn Mallie

Northern Ireland's teenagers would get my vote (Sep 18)

Joe Lindsay

Youth needs to have some life experience before it is ready to elect politicians (Sep 18)

Ruth Dudley Edwards

UKIP NI fined £3500 for breaking finance rules (Sep 8)

What happened next for Alex Attwood, Eamonn McCann, Sandra Overend and Oliver McMullan? (Sep 7)

Donna Deeney

Man charged with attempted murder in Larne loyalist feud

Former Mayor speaks of 'discontent within Unionist community' after Maolíosa McHugh wears chain of office to visit Tony Taylor

Housing body 'content' for bonfire that damaged flats to return

Brendan Hughes

Dissident Dee Fennell faces terror charges trial over cemetery speech

Ashleigh McDonald

Pair sentenced tomorrow for terror offences

DUP urged to reject resident group's 'housing for unionists' call

Brendan Hughes

Derry vigil held in opposition to soldiers' protest

Alan Healy

Marks and Spencer 'proud' at having stayed in NI through Troubles (Sep 8)

Julian O'Neill

Bobby Sands film to make its television premiere on Sunday

John Monaghan

Irish schools being 'set up to fail' by Dept of Education

Michael Jackson

Anti-Catholicism shouldn't be allowed to be the last acceptable prejudice (Jun 8)

Michael Kelly

New play explores family and politics in Northern Ireland

Stormont stalemate holding up new college project

Scottish devolution can give NI food for thought

John Simpson

Ex-UKIP activist in row over alleged Union flag theft attack was at centre of 'blacking up' storm

Martin Williams

Stories from 2017-09-19

SDLP wants British and Irish leaders to step in

DUP will walk out of talks if Dublin starts suggesting solutions - Donaldson

Irish Language Act war of words intensifies as Sinn Fein hits out at 'insulting' comments by Foster

David Young

SF using Irish language act as smoke screen - Ringland

Stephen Gamble

SF - Destroying signs disrespects the Irish identity

No offence Arlene Foster, but it's disgrace MLAs still paid, says man who helped set their salary

Suzanne Breen

Why NI's devolved government should be waving and not drowning

Rick Wilford

Alliance say an ILA based on cost and compulsion will fail, yet MLA stood smiling beside Adams for whom cost and compulsion is no problem

Alan Chambers

Measured approach needed to Irish language discussions

Editorial

Donaldson right to dismiss Eastwood's joint proposal idea

Editorial

Failure to deal with past imperils future

Editorial

Did the government intentionally mislead us over its deal with the DUP? (Sep 11)

Gina Miller

Congress members urge Tillerson not to abolish post of NI envoy

Suzanne Lynch

Petition calls for NI to have honorary EU membership

Michael McHugh

Hogan's EU challenge to May simply adds to political intrigue

John Downing

Washington needs to get more involved in Brexit

Richard E Neal

Ireland will need to play hardball on Brexit field

Fearghal O'Connor

Loyalism needs a voice, but it mustn't be those linked to paramilitary past

Alex Kane

'Even if Adams goes, FF won't work with Sinn Féin' - Martin

Kevin Doyle

Sinn Féin expels three Wicklow councillors

Harry McGee

Union to hold solidarity rally for probation officers after republican threats

Man shot in hands and legs in paramilitary style attack in West Belfast

Sarah Scott

Shooting of man's hands and legs was 'barbarism'

AAD - Pipe bomb target threatened previously by INLA

SF concern that Derry man being detained on 'probability', not facts

Priest allows republican flags at funeral - unionists vent anger

Leona O'Neill

Michael McIlveen's mother to stand trial accused of assaulting one of her son's killers

IRA victims' families meet Garda ahead of Dublin protest

Allan Preston

Bomb victim 'numbed' by government's Libya refusal

DUP could have struck Libyan cash deal as part of its Tory pact, says Jim Allister

Adrian Rutherford

Glenanne families have received no contact from PSNI since landmark ruling

Allison Morris

IRA Belvoir Park science labs bomb targeted NI justice

Vincent Kearney

Coroner to quiz witnesses over post-mortem photos of IRA man killed by Army

Former Drumcree priest reinvents himself as successful entrepreneur

Connla Young

RHI Inquiry - Foster and Bell given special status for proceedings

Ó Muilleor 'disappointed' at delay in RHI inquiry he set up

Sam McBride

DUP MP Emma Little-Pengelly sends congratulatory tweet to GAA club

John Monaghan

We're not allowed to show All-Ireland GAA final, says BBC after Sinn Féin tweet

John Monaghan

Repeal of football anti-bigotry laws could lead to "regression" of offensive behaviour, Scots police chief warns

Martin Williams

Scottish and Welsh plans to amend Brexit bill to be outlined

Lawyer for Irishman found innocent in Egypt pays tribute to Lurgan-based group The Hooded Men

Carmel Robinson

Stories from 2017-09-18

Arlene Foster claims Sinn Féin aims to 'humiliate unionists' with Irish language act demand

John Manley

Councillors' body backs Swann on Irish language

Activists join forces to push for an Irish language act in NI

Suzanne McGonagle

'Equal respect under the law for the Irish Language'

Linda Ervine and Dr Francis Costello

Official Ireland built a stage for Adams's Irish Language Act (Sep 17)

Declan Lynch

Colum Eastwood calls for representation on Joint Ministerial Council

Northern Ireland needs the chance to vote Labour (Sep 8)

Boyd Black

Don't be complacent about peace warns CRC chairman

Adams and Ó Broin 'apologists for IRA' - Martin

Niall O'Connor

MLA Bradley kept debt nightmare secret until she was facing eviction (Sep 11)

Claire McNeilly

Outrage over Christ Church attack (Sep 14)

Editorial

Blessed are the peacemakers - the risks they took for peace in Northern Ireland (Sep 16)

Judith Cole

Martin McGuinness statement submitted to Troubles inquest

Seamus McKinney

How UTV broadcaster dodged wearing poppy on screen for years (Sep 11)

One in 10 pupils at 'Protestant schools' are Catholic

Simon Doyle

Proposals to scrap Belfast's St Patrick's Day concert over health and safety concerns (Sep 12)

Sarah Scott

West Cork Protestants 'dread' Civil War centenary, bishop says (Sep 11)

Patsy McGarry and Barry Roche

Charlie Flanagan breaks his silence on 'dark chapter' in Garda history (Sep 10)

Philip Ryan

Garda brand is tainted — it's time to start again (Sep 9)

Daniel McConnell

This stretch of border shows why Brexit will be an enormous headache to manage - we went to talk to locals

Daragh Brophy

Belfast needs Metropolitan Mayor to save it from 'catastrophic Brexit', says Needham (Aug 31)

Jonathan Bell

Good news for border counties with the end of EU roaming charges (Jun 13)

'Stay in customs union', Hogan tells May

John Downing

Hogan's EU challenge to May simply adds to political intrigue

John Downing

EU protects Ireland from UK domination (Jun 13)

John Bruton

Tony Blair wanted Celtic and Rangers to join British league to help bridge cultural division of devolution (Sep 11)

Once independence momentum is lost, it's fiendishly difficult to regain (Jun 12)

David Torrance

Divided Korea can learn from Northern Ireland's peace process

David Mitchell and Dongjin Kim

Stories from 2017-09-17

MLA pay 'not a stick' in Stormont negotiations, says Arlene Foster

Victims' commissioner warns over Stormont legacy issues delay

No return for Irish border, urges actress Joanna Lumley (Sep 11)

Michael McHugh

Sinn Féin demeans women and is 'power and money mad', ex-councillor claims

Olivia Kelleher

Fianna Fáil 'will not enter coalition with cult-like Sinn Féin'

Sarah Bardon

Youth in Northern Ireland demand change to voting age

Sarah Scott

Red Hand Commando link to Lisa Dorrian (Sep 15)

Evan Short

Do we not deserve to feel safe, Border resident asks

Rodney Edwards

UUP defends Ards and North Down councillor commuting to London as part of job (Sep 15)

Brendan Hughes

Hundreds march in support of ex-soldier while counter demonstrations also take place

Man who spent 17 years in jail for IRA bombing he didn't carry out says he is 'haunted' by ordeal

Sylvia Pownall

Libya fought a proxy war against the UK via the IRA, yet the victims have been failed once again

Reg Empey

Gaddafi-backed terror victims let down again

Editorial

Only a British executioner would do for the gardai

Ian O'Donnell

Behind the masks' - New digital archive documents Northern Ireland's history

Órla Ryan

Dalai Lama says blinded Troubles victim is his 'hero'

Former UUP MLA - Why it's so tough to find a new job (Sep 6)

Dole woes of Danny Kennedy are a poignant reminder that our politicians are only human (Sep 12)

Gail Walker

Review - MAZE not the republican love-in you might think

Shauna Corr

The cost of raising Belfast's profile just doesn't add up (Sep 14)

Editorial

Cross-party Stormont support for local artist's project

Conor McParland

This is what the PSNI is doing following Parsons Green tube bomb

Sarah Scott

Agriland.ie

It's time for the National Ploughing Championships to come north

Richard Halleron

Call to give small Irish firms €2,000 to deal with post-Brexit customs (Sep 3)

Soft drinks industry warns sugar tax will lead to Border smuggling (Sep 4)

Conor Pope

Concerns voiced over vital Brexit research after think tank funding dries up

John Manley

Who needs cash for Brexit balloons over Irish border when we have so much Tory hot air?

John Niven

Poll - Scots' support for remaining in EU up since January

Lynsey Bews

Watch as pro-British group are set upon at independence rally and have their Union flag nicked

Stories from 2017-09-16

Westminster to intervene if no Northern Ireland deal agreed - Brokenshire

Suzanne Breen

Sinn Fein rejection of DUP olive branch on Irish language pure selfishness - Dodds

Suzanne Breen

Sinn Fein's Irish demands are an 'impossibility'

Stephen Gamble

Stevenson's intervention is timely - TUV leader Allister

Assembly watchdog pessimistic about deal

Government must deliver on £1bn DUP promise, says Tory MP

Gareth Gordon

EU's Juncker tells of need to 'protect' the Belfast Agreement at Brexit talks

Stephen Rae

Ireland 'will block next phase of Brexit talks' over border

Fiachra Ó Cionnaith and Juno McEnroe

No sanctions for rule-breaking MLAs

Mark Devenport

Erection of apartheid era South Africa flag described as 'bizarre'

Connla Young

Probation Board staff 'warned of increased dissident threat'

Anger at dissident threat to probation staff in Northern Ireland

Brett Campbell

Man faces attempted murder charge over Larne attack

Mayor calls for Tony Taylor's immediate release

Brendan McDaid

Man linked to David Black murder faces extradition hearing

John Cassidy

George Gilmore murder accused refused bail

Judge handed references 'from both sides of community' for Orangeman John Aughey who drove into group at Belfast flashpoint

Ashleigh McDonald

DUP calls for 'fresh start' from government on Libya compensation

Government's snub to Libyan terror payout scheme 'one of worst injustices in UK history'

Donna Deeney and Allan Preston

Jean McConville murder case prosecutors to proceed with action against veteran republican Ivor Bell

Michael McHugh

Jean McConville - Defence fight plan to continue Ivor Bell prosecution

John Cassidy

Protests over Army Troubles prosecutions

Police 'must hit deadline or forfeit IRA ambush case'

Collusion talk to take place in Co Armagh

Connla Young

Explosive film on a Northern Ireland massacre to debut at New York Film Festival

Niall O'Dowd

Forget the daft marketing hype ... this red splat is the opposite of what makes Belfast so great

Fionola Meredith

Irish police scandal - What next for Garda Síochána?

Shane Harrison

Durkan welcomes RTÉ apology over partitionist map used on 'The Late Late Show'

Kevin Mullan

Exclusive audio - 'My European tax plans are not anti-Irish,' insists Juncker

Stephen Rae

Cross-border shoppers cost State €300m in tax revenue

Colm Kelpie

The first wave from Brexit - cross-Border shopping

Linfield player Callum Brown set to become first in club's history to line out for a GAA All-Ireland final at Croke Park

John Monaghan

Terrorist activity is at its highest level in England since the 1970s

Nigel Morris

Stories from 2017-09-15

NI 'on glide path' to government intervention, says Brokenshire

Seven in ten nationalist voters back Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams' tough stance to not re-enter power without Irish Language Act

Jason Johnson

'Alliance and the Greens stood with Adams before SF gave any details on Irish language act'

Alan Chambers

Gerry Adams holds talks with former US vice-president Joe Biden

Jack Quann

Poll - What do DUP and Sinn Fein voters make of parties' stance in Stormont stalement?

Jonathan Bell

SF has done nothing to dispel fears over an Irish language act

Editorial

Parties show real politics is possible

Editorial

If Gerry Adams has a 'quirky' sense of humour, why aren't IRA victims laughing

Eilis O'Hanlon

Arlene Foster has made a valuable contribution to the discussion about cultural identity

Nelson McCausland

UK path on Brexit is mad and dangerous, says Baroness Armstrong in Dublin

Colm Keena

Brexit may hurt Ireland 'more than any other EU state' - Flanagan

Patrick Smyth

Mid-Ulster council in row over dual language street signs

Jayne McCormack

DUP councillor fails to have residents pay for Irish street signs

Belfast residents' group calls for unionist flags removal

Brendan Hughes

Campaigner urges SoS not to legalise loyalist group

Victims campaigner cautions against lifting ban on Red Hand Commando

Ford - Legal Red Hand Commando could continue to control communities

Demands for PSNI crackdown on loyalist gangs after car set alight

Son's case over UVF probe 'failings' can proceed

Repairs begin at apartments damaged by Belfast bonfire

Brett Campbell

No pay rise for NI cops while Stormont lies dormant

Shauna Corr

Five in the dock over car park murder of dissident republican

Conor Feehan and Brian Kavanagh

Libya-IRA reparations fund call rejected

Stephen Walker

Government 'is telling victims to go it alone' as fund rejected

Lawyer - The government has been weak and hypocritical about the defence of Libya-IRA victims

Jason McCue

Paisley '£100k holidays' investigated by MPs' watchdog

Maze escape film shows 'progress needs dialogue'

Maze prison escape film 'shows talking is the best way to resolve conflict'

Northern Ireland politicians nominated for top Fianna Fail roles

Eamon Sweeney

The Northern Standard

Extended Ulster Canal greenway will help revitalise border economy

A woman was told to stop speaking 'foreign muck' but was actually speaking Welsh... in Wales (Sep 11)

Tom Houghton

Stories from 2017-09-14

DUP sides with Labour as Tories defeated on public pay

Michael McHugh

DUP support for Tories was always conditional and the party knows when to play the populist card

John Manley

Sinn Fein and DUP united by fear for Bombardier jobs

John Mulgrew

Bombardier row unites party leaders

Deep concern over future of Bombardier jobs

Editorial

Grand Master explains why Orange Order still says no to an Irish language act

Orange Grand Master - ‘We have no quarrel with Irish but will not back any reward for use of the language in the SF-IRA cultural war’

Edward Stevenson

Mairead Maguire - Nobel laureate appeals to politicians to form an executive (Sep 12)

Suzanne McGonagle

Rev Gibson right to defend Foster over crocodiles row (Sep 12)

Editorial

Women win court battle over Belfast house values at interface

Why we should welcome the winds of change that blow through loyalism

Graham Spencer and Chris Hudson

RHC plan is 'surely lifted from Give My Head Peace'

Philip Bradfield

Terror group moving in the right direction

Editorial

Sandy Row bonfire - Damaged flats being repaired

Jayne McCormack

Vandals urinate and defecate in Protestant church in Derry

Freya McClements

Councillors agree to send letter of sympathy following 'vile' attack on Christ Church

Kevin Mullan

Catholic bishop pledges help for vandalised church

Seamus McKinney

Why for victims and survivors of the Troubles, justice delayed is the same as justice denied

Alban Maginness

Challenge to WWI group

Mervyn Gibson: Senior Orangeman says 1914 UVF gun-running was 'not terrorism' (Sep 12)

Claire Simpson

Belfast Blitz horror needs a memorial in grounds of City Hall (Sep 11)

Editorial

NI peace projects could still receive EU cash after Brexit through Dublin

Controversy as Irish naval ship attends world's largest arms fair in London

Rónán Duffy

Fine Gael MEP says Ireland needs to re-examine its neutrality ahead of Brexit

Órla Ryan

PSNI set to adopt Dublin anti-gang project (Sep 6)

Cormac O'Keeffe

Brexit exposes vulnerability of citizenship rights for Irish abroad (Sep 6)

Conrad Bryan

Solidarity-PBP rules out coalition with 'rightward-leaning' Sinn Féin

Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Martin buries arrow in Sinn Fein's Achilles heel (Sep 3)

Eoghan Harris

It's time to dispel the Irish border Brexit myths - here are three realities that will help resolve it (Sep 11)

Victoria Hewson

'Brexit risks triggering Scotland-England trade war'

Paris Gourtsoyannis

SFA - chief executive Stewart Regan says Celtic are only club to call for review (Sep 11)

Chris McLaughlin

Stories from 2017-09-13

Theresa May 'makes clear' importance of restoring Stormont in call to Foster and O'Neill

Jonathan Bell

'Critical time for NI', says new SDLP deputy leader

'ILA means Irish will be compulsory in schools' - Empey

Mark Rainey

Welcome voices against a standalone Irish language act (Sep 9)

Editorial

I have no powers to stop MLAs' pay, James Brokenshire admits

Jonathan Bell

Unionist leader claims no evidence of support for united Ireland

Anthony Neeson

DUP votes not needed as EU Repeal Bill passes by 36 majority in House of Commons

Bimpe Archer

£1 billion 'cash-for-votes' deal helps explain May's call to Trump over Bombardier

Gary McDonald

Bombardier Boeing row could harm peace in Northern Ireland - Foster and O'Neill appeal to US Vice President Pence

Jonathan Bell

Red Hand Commando bid to be legalised branded 'ludicrous'

Suzanne Breen

Victims' dismay at application to legalise terror group

Sam McBride, Michael McHugh and Philip Bradfield

Red Hand Commando killed 13 people during the Troubles

Claire Simpson

Red Hand Commando publicity stunt a fruitless exercise

Allison Morris

You are out of the IRA once you're arrested and jailed - Gerry Kelly

Crusaders accuse PSNI of 'smearing reputation' over UVF investigation raid

Shauna Corr

Northern Ireland trio held on terrorism offences released

UPRG-linked Solinas won't take no for answer on guns

Church hall daubed in anti-police graffiti

PFNI calls on Secretary of State Brokenshire to intervene to deliver pay award to thousands of PSNI officers

Claire Williamson

How a paramilitary threat turned an officer's life upside down (Sep 12)

Gerry Moriarty

'It's very simple...the PSNI defend British state interests' (Sep 11)

Army flood aid unused because of Stormont impasse

Donna Deeney

Met police award for MP Laurence Robertson for championing IRA bomb victims

Michael McHugh

Pub bombs families lodge court appeal over inquest suspects ruling

Andy Richards

All parties, except DUP, meet with civil service head over school sports funding threat

Antrim UUP councillor 'lives and works in Dublin'

Brendan Hughes

'Maze escape nothing heroic' says former warder on film release

Mark Rainey

Review - Maze a compelling study of jailbreak, far from IRA propaganda

Malachi O'Doherty

RTÉ sorry for cutting 6 counties out of map of Ireland on Late Late Show

Bimpe Archer

Ireland's days of hiding behind Britain in Europe are over

Derek Scally

Sturgeon in Brexit clash with opposition over independence vote plan

Severin Carrell