NOW that British Prime Minister May has triggered Article 50, many voters in Northern Ireland and Scotland find themselves peering through Alice’s Looking Glass at a transformed world they did not ask to visit.

Ireland was officially neutral in the Second World War but, 75 years ago today, German bombers brought the blitz to Dublin. Ryle Dwyer asks if it was error or conspiracy, and shows how the incident shines a light on our young nation’s complex relationships with the Allied and Axis powers

Despite literary figures’ pleas for clemency, Roger Casement was hanged for his part in the Rising after a four-day trial in London, says Ryle Dwyer

John Bruton’s assertion that the Home Rule Act of 1914 would have ultimately led peacefully to national independence is mere speculation. 

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is calling on James Reilly to leave his post as Minister for Health.

Anti-austerity campaigners must unite to reject 'unworkable' government economic policies focused on austerity, a mass rally in Belfast has been told.

A failure to implement proposed welfare reforms in Northern Ireland will ultimately cost lives, Stormont’s Health Minister has warned.

COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi urged the head of the United Nations to intervene and stop the hunger strike, state papers have revealed.

IN August 1979, Margaret Thatcher, referring to New York governor Hugh Carey’s visit to Ireland amid reports that he was planning to put pressure on the British government over Northern Ireland, said she “would not think of discussing with President Carter, for example, US policy towards their black population”.

TV ads for junk food should be banned during peak viewing times for children according to a doctor and Fianna Fáil TD.

Showbiz stars including former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker today condemned London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s suspension as an “outrage against democracy”.

RUMOURS that Guinness was planning to wind up operations at St James's Gate, Dublin, and move its headquarters to the Park Royal Brewery near London were finally killed off this week with the news that the Park Royal operation is being closed down instead.

THE implications of the change of tone in the outpourings of the usually defiant 'P O'Neill' will be carefully considered in the coming days.