There is an onus on the party to eke out its true definition, as a right-of-centre party, and put a real end to civil war politics, writes Daniel McConnell.

A lot may have changed in the last 20 years, but in many ways, few lessons have been learned from how we lived in the late 1990s and early 2000s, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Tumultuous events seen at their enactment as unprecedented, are often insignificant and measure history repeating itself.

Some of Northern Ireland's biggest problems have nothing to do with leaving the EU, but all anyone talks about now is the backstop, writes Sarah Campbell.

In the old gods’ time, be they Celt or Pict, had an Irishman won the British Open at the start of the most important week in Anglo-Irish relations since the Good Friday Agreement was settled, it would have been seen as a portentous nudge that could hardly be ignored without risking heaven’s wrath.

The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legislate for marriage equality and abortion in Northern Ireland, unless the government at Stormont is up and running again by October 21.

The British government cannot just "throw the Good Friday Agreement under the bus" to pursue a shortsighted Brexit agenda, a campaigner has said.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been warned to give clear backing to a second EU referendum, or risk losing millions of pro-EU voters.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that the British government may not be able to get a final Brexit deal through the House of Commons, increasing the likelihood of a hard Brexit.

The British government has fantasy “non-solutions” to the Irish border and are indifferent to the fallout from Brexit for Ireland, Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald has claimed.

Unions in England have attacked news that apprentices caught up in the collapse of construction giant Carillion will not be paid from later this week.

Christine Keeler was the girl at the heart of the notorious Profumo affair in 1963 which rocked the British establishment, convulsed Westminster and ultimately contributed to the downfall of the beleaguered Tory government the following year.

European Council president Donald Tusk has handed Leo Varadkar a crucial veto in the Brexit negotiations as tense talks with the UK this weekend go down to the wire. 

UK prime minister Theresa May is in a double bind as she tries to navigate the politics of Brexit while keeping businesses on side: Even when she thinks she’s giving companies what they want, they say she’s made it worse.

EARLY analysis of Britain’s latest position on Brexit suggests the Tory government is still at the have-their-cake-and-eat-it stage; that they cling to the view they can enjoy the benefits

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is offering a "tougher line" on free movement than the Government, Nigel Farage has said, as he claimed the Tories had "sold out" their supporters.

MOST politicians would buck at the suggestion that they live in a disconnected world discussing how many appeal court judges can dance on the head of a pin.

The Democratic Unionists have ridiculed a Sinn Féin call for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British Prime Minister Theresa May to intervene in Stormont's crisis talks.

Latest: Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has hit out at the deal between the DUP and the Conservatives - saying it’s a "blank cheque for a Tory Brexit".

Sinn Féin is not budging on its insistence that Arlene Foster cannot return as Stormont first minister while a public inquiry into a botched green energy scheme is ongoing, Gerry Kelly has made clear.

British Chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to publish the costs of any deals made with the DUP to prop up a Tory government in the UK.

The best outcome for Ireland would be the forcing of a second referendum, which based on the election results last weekend, would likely vote to remain within the EU, writes Jim Power.

Markets had been expecting that Britain’s Conservative government would be returned with an increased majority in last week’s UK general election, with both UK stock and bond markets making gains over the course of the campaign.

The fact is that, although the outward and visible sign was poor communications, the underlying policy reality was the problem, writes Terry Prone.

From the moment the exit poll was announced at 10pm on Thursday, and it was apparent that Theresa May was about to lose her Commons majority, the potential role for the Democratic Unionist Party took centre stage.

Update 6.41pm: Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has pledged to work in the interests of the entire United Kingdom as she expressed willingness to help Theresa May form a government.

The FTSE 100 Index has closed above 7,500 for the first time as higher-than-forecast inflation data and confidence over Britain's prospects under a Tory government drove stocks higher.

The DUP and Sinn Fein are at loggerheads over who to blame for public spending cuts in the North

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder over a "savage" attack that left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life in England.

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Nicola Sturgeon will today launch a fresh bid to convince Scots to back independence, hailing the drive as the "biggest ever political listening exercise".

Candidates for jobs these days might celebrate when they get it, but they might not always have the rights of other employees, writes Michael Clifford.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny's new government is facing its first controversy amid reports of radical health service reform which opponents have said are out of the "Tory handbook".

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

THE protections offered to workers, especially those in low-paid, vulnerable sectors, is one of the ways a society can be judged.

A police officer and a member of police staff are being treated in hospital after being injured during an anti-austerity campaign against the new Tory Government in the UK.

The five leaders of the five national political parties sum up in five sentences why voters should back them. Here is what they said (in alphabetical order):

Nick Clegg has warned that he is not prepared to tear the Liberal Democrats apart in order to enter into a second coalition with the Conservatives.

With only a week to go until a wide-open general election, Britain is about to become the European Union’s most politically unpredictable member, writes Anatole Kaletsky

In a deeply political budget seven weeks ahead of the general election, British chancellor George Osborne offered financial goodies to taxpayers, savers, home-buyers and the regions of Britain, while doing his best to blunt Labour’s lines of attack in what is expected to be the most tightly-fought campaign of modern times.

Two weeks ago I met some English visitors to our country. I enquired of them as to the price they pay for water in Bournemouth. They informed me that metered water for two adults and two children is £850, that figure converts to €1,084.

The Greens have accused European chiefs of breaking their own competition rules and the Irish Government of turning a blind eye over the go-ahead for the new Hinkley nuclear project in the UK.

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British threats to deprive EU workers of allowances, including child benefit, would hit Irish families worst after the Poles, according to the latest available figures.

Football, Europe’s largest indoor shopping centre, roof walks and sandy beaches — Newcastle has it all.

“When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp . . . There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. In short, all good things are wild and free.”