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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Food industry warns ‘Not for EU’ labelling will deter investment in UK

    Post-Brexit requirement will put up costs for British manufacturers, says Food and Drink Federation

    A butchers in Leeds
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    N Ireland unionists and nationalists pledge prosperity for opposite ends

    Sinn Féin hopes good governance will strengthen case for reunification while the DUP believes it will cement UK ties

    First minister Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    ObituaryJohn Bruton
    John Bruton, Irish premier and diplomat, 1947-2024

    The taoiseach who led his country into an economic boom time was known for his intellectual bent and his distinctive laugh

    John Bruton
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Belfast-based band mounts legal challenge after UK government blocks grant

    Pro-united Ireland rappers Kneecap accuse business secretary Kemi Badenoch of ‘state-sponsored censorship’

    Kneecap outside Bowery Ballroom in New York
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Britain after Brexit
    Brexit highlights divisions in Ireland rather than heals them Premium content

    Plus, poll shows large numbers of readers of Tory newspapers want a change of government

    Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill, left, and the DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly, respectively the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Pakistan’s Imran Khan fights an election from jail

    Barred from this week’s vote, the former prime minister is using chatbots to energise his party’s supporters

  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    Cash crisis waits for Northern Ireland’s restored executive

    UK lifeline of £3.3bn may not be enough to fund public sector pay and essential services

    Michelle O’Neill
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    O’Neill tells Sunak £3.3bn in funding for Northern Ireland not enough

    Executive issues blunt message to UK prime minister, who is visiting the region after restoration of Stormont

  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A moment of high symbolism for Northern Ireland

    What the region needs now is normal government, not a constitutional fight

    Michelle O’Neill
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Michelle O’Neill becomes first nationalist to lead Northern Ireland government

    Sinn Féin first minister says she is ‘a republican’ but will govern ‘for all’

    Michelle O’Neill walking down a staircase
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Stormont prepares to reconvene with region’s first nationalist leader

    Michelle O’Neill has vowed to be a ‘first minister for all’ when the Northern Ireland executive returns

    Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Féin will be sworn in when the 90-member Stormont Assembly is recalled at 1pm
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Philip Stephens
    Northern Ireland revisits the success of ‘constructive ambiguity’

    Politics in the province cannot be forced into straight lines — this week’s deal follows the lessons of its history

    Two men in suits holds documents titled ‘Safeguarding the union’
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    MPs pass legislation aimed at reviving N Ireland executive

    Stormont could reconvene as soon as Saturday after Commons backs deal with DUP to restore power sharing

    Stormont in Belfast
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Sinn Féin hails historic shift as Stormont looks set to reconvene

    UK publishes plan to revive Northern Ireland executive after DUP agreed to restore power sharing following two-year impasse

    Michelle O’Neill, first minister designate from the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Explainer
    What is the new Northern Ireland deal and how will it work?

    Political leaders hope the proposals will end two years of Brexit deadlock at Stormont

    Montage of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Stormont
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    OutlookJude Webber
    Ancient body unearthed in a Northern Irish bog sparks modern pain

    A 2,000-year-old teenager has been discovered near where one of those ‘disappeared’ during the Troubles is yet to be found

    Archaeologists wearing clean suits and working inside a tent dig for human remains in the peat
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    N Ireland executive could return this weekend after DUP agrees landmark deal

    Other parties hail ‘day of optimism’ as agreement looks set to end two years of political deadlock

    Stormont parliament
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Euro 2028 stadium revamp brings Northern Ireland divisions to surface

    Regeneration of Casement Park sparks resentment from unionists

    Two walkers with an umbrella pass a painted mural at the entrance to Casement Park
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    UK ratchets up pressure on DUP to lift boycott of Stormont

    Tight deadline of February 8 set by London for Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party to restore executive

    A view of Stormont
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Thousands strike in Northern Ireland as anger grows over Stormont paralysis

    Public sector workers demand pay rises in line with British counterparts

    Public sector workers protest outside Belfast City Hall on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    DUP foils latest attempt to recall Stormont as N Ireland workers prepare to strike

    Move to restore region’s power-sharing executive comes as 170,000 workers prepare for action on Thursday

    Protesters hold placards demanding an end to the Stormont deadlock
  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
    Philip Stephens
    What unionists could learn from Ireland’s nationalists

    They should give up abstentionism and try persuasion instead

    Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson answers questions alongside party colleagues Gavin Robinson and Emma Little-Pengelly at a press conference following discussions at Hillsborough Castle in Belfast
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Explainer
    What next for Northern Ireland’s paralysed executive?

    Months of talks and a £3.3bn rescue package are yet to lead to a restoration of Stormont, with the DUP adopting a tough stance

    Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Interview
    Law to tackle legacy of Troubles can work despite challenges, says senior judge

    ‘It is by doing what we say that we will get trust,’ maintains reconciliation commission head Sir Declan Morgan

    Sir Declan Morgan, head of the ICRIR
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Ireland
    Ireland to launch case against UK over law on legacy of Troubles

    Legal action under the European Convention on Human Rights draws sharp retort from London government

    An armed soldier attacks a protester in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972 on what is now known as Bloody Sunday when British paratroopers shot 13 civilians dead during a civil rights march
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