By providing a benign shelter for conflicting identities, the European Union helped end the Troubles in the North. To forget this is to risk a return to the past. ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ is a warning from history that should not be forgotten, says Roisin McAuley.

WHAT a wonderful realisation of cross-border co-operation it would be if premier-in-waiting Gordon Brown could be convinced to build one of Britain’s proposed nuclear plants somewhere in the ‘Six Counties’.

AN Irish diplomat has been forced to flee the North because of death threats from anti-Catholic extremists, the Government said yesterday.

SUNSET in Belfast port yesterday marked an historic occasion as the Tricolour and the Royal Navy’s White Ensign were lowered together.