If the polls are right, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael could come together in government again, excluding Sinn Féin

Unionists identify with Turkish Cypriots and would love Britain to defend them as rigorously as Turkey

Anyone believing they are receiving a full picture of what’s important in the world from British media is seriously deluded

Northern nationalists and republicans are taking ownership of a north from which they have been systematically excluded for over a century

Co Antrim man openly accepted he was the wrong man for the task, dashing the hopes of northern nationalists

DUP no longer have leverage at Westminster and Labour only wants to move closer to EU

Do unionist politicians have in their minds some ideal year that they’d like to return to?

Ignorance and incompetence thrive because party is reluctant to ditch long-term party apparatchiks

The British and French were the only belligerents in World War I whose empires survived intact

Loughinisland case and treatment of journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey shows need for root and branch reform of PSNI governance and increase in powers and finance for Police Ombudsman

Iraq and the former land of Mesopotamia is another fateful legacy of British imperialism

There is that no incentive for paramilitary groups to transition – in fact there is every reason to stay in business

Imperial meddling in oil-rich Iran’s affairs has left it virulently anti-US/UK

Given the infighting in his government in last three months, Labour leader can’t afford to open another front about EU reset

French took special interest in Lebanon as protector of Christians in the Ottoman empire