Tag: Troubles

Total Results: 6


'Thatcher was the demon Sinn Féin needed.' Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
10/13/2025 - 1:02am

Thatcher was Sinn Féin's useful demon She galvanized Irish nationalism

Darran Anderson

Monday, April 18

18.04

Northern Ireland’s dangerous future Lyra McKee has been betrayed again

Jenny McCartney

Wednesday, December 23

23.12

Why the Irish border still troubles Britain A century ago Ireland was partitioned between South and North. The legacy still haunts both islands

Charles Townshend

Friday, December 4

04.12

Will anyone ever say ‘sorry’ in Northern Ireland? Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries are still unable to acknowledge the terrible wrongs they did

Jenny McCartney

Wednesday, October 23

23.10

Don’t let Brexit become the next Troubles Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s taught me that tribal loyalties have a way of turning nasty

Jenny McCartney

Friday, September 13

13.09

‘Fake news’ is old hat in Northern Ireland The BBC's 'Spotlight on The Troubles' series shows that the decay of political language is not a new phenomenon

Douglas Murray