Northern Ireland

The Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, has urged the leaders of the five party’s in the Stormont assembly to re-establish a ruling executive. 

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has been hastily rushed off stage by police at an event in Belfast after a van was hijacked and driven to the venue. 

It’s estimated that more than three million Ukrainians have had to leave their country since the start of the war, seeking security elsewhere in Europe. 

In Northern Ireland there are fears that, as the cost of living crisis grows, as much as 40% of the population could soon be living in fuel poverty.

Five years ago a landmark inquiry concluded that over a 73-year period, children in Northern Ireland’s care homes suffered systemic physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect. 

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Paul Givan of the Democratic Unionist Party has resigned in protest over Brexit checks in the Irish Sea. 

We spoke to the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. She is now chair of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for human rights, peace and the transition to a low-carbon future.

We talk to the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jeffrey Donaldson.

What do the EU’s proposals mean for businesses in Northern Ireland who have complained that trade has been strangled by the protocol?

We talk to a member of the European Commission and former Irish MEP, Mairead McGuinness about the proposed change to border checks in Northern Ireland.

They’ve been dubbed the “sausage wars”, the tension between the UK and EU over trade rules in Northern Ireland. 

What would it mean to be a Unionist, if the Union no longer exists?

Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street and was intimately involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.

John Teggart, whose father, Danny, was among the victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre in 1971, is a spokesman for the families of 10 people who were killed during those three days of shooting.

It’s estimated 3,500 people were killed in the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland that came to be known as the Troubles. The question of how to give their families justice has been a matter of tension and debate ever since.