Michelle O’Neill was never supposed to be here. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was established following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed known as “The ...

Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs vividly shows the extraordinary story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, a cross-community party formed in 1996 that went on to win two seats at the historic peace ...

Former BBC Ireland correspondent Kevin Connolly is now North America correspondent. He reflects on Northern Ireland as seen from afar. I've reported from quite a few countries around the world since I ...

Scenes of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland this week prompted many to recall the country’s troubled past: rioters pelting rocks at police, young men with covered faces throwing petrol bombs ...

The shooting dead of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988 by an SAS team was a hugely controversial event. Two current affairs programmes sought to get to the truth of what happened. One was a This ...

Brigadier Roger Preston, who has died aged 89, had a distinguished career spanning more than three decades of active service across East Africa, the Far East, Germany and Northern Ireland.