Gerry Adams describes Fianna Fáil's opposition to the the abolition of the Seanad as a cynical move calculated to gain as much media exposure as possible Free article

New poll shows Irish citizens overwhelmingly support neutrality and oppose deployment of Irish troops as part of UN force in Syria Free article

Belfast High Court hears withdrawal of action on information about three controversial conflict-related killings by British state forces and a pro-British death squad Free article

Parliamentary committee told by Sinn Féin TD that care workers should be paid properly and employed on decent contracts Free article

A UVF bomb ripped through Patrick McGurk’s Tramore Bar near the nationalist New Lodge Road in north Belfast in December 1971, killing 15 men, women and children Free article

Tom Redmond says he has resigned from the Labour Party after a period of serious disillusionment with the direction of the party and its actions in government. Free article

At the 2013 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Martin McGuinness said that if the Bedroom Tax was brought before the Assembly then Sinn Féin would move to block it Free article

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded annually by MEPs Free article

Mary Lou McDonald says current elitist Seanad must go but a future second chamber could be considered Free article

Villiers’s Cambridge speech reflects continuing failure by British governments to acknowledge their role as participants in the conflict Free article