Gail Walker
05 June 2024
Migrants bring Sinn Féin a reality check
Sinn Féin’s target demographic now blames the party for cheerleading Ireland’s open-border mentality, and its popularity has plummeted
Read the full article22 May 2024
Blue Lights: Belfast’s reality TV
The picture of Northern Ireland painted by the hit BBC drama series is tense, shocking – and entirely accurate
Read the full article17 April 2024
Jeffrey Donaldson: The calm after the storm
The former DUP leader’s arrest led to fears of another Stormont shutdown. Instead, optimism is breaking out
Read the full article07 February 2024
Northern Ireland is still broken
Stormont may be back, but the rot and dysfunction at the heart of Northern Ireland will not be easily fixed
Read the full article27 September 2023
Can Patrick Kielty unite Ireland?
The iconic Dublin-based The Late, Late Show has its first Northern Irish presenter – just as old feuds and Brexit troubles boil up again...
Read the full article27 October 2022
It’s Groundhog Day in Northern Ireland – again
As another election, rows over the Protocol and a febrile atmosphere between unionists and republicans overshadow the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement looms, can its message of reconciliation be resurrected?
Read the full article09 May 2022
The DUP’s Brexit blunders have brought the future of Northern Ireland itself into question
Obsession with the Protocol has handed the advantage to Sinn Féin
Read the full article28 April 2022
For Belfast, Hollywood endings are just fiction
The city may have made it to the silver screen, but there are no silver linings yet for Northern Ireland as election and Protocol tensions raise temperatures again
Read the full article30 September 2021
How sectarianism sparked a surge in coronavirus cases
It has had one of the highest Covid rates in the world – far in excess of other parts of the UK and the neighbouring Republic. So what is going on in Northern Ireland?
Read the full article16 September 2021
Northern Ireland: Where the streets have two names
A century since partition, Northern Ireland is torn on the effects of language on the process of peace. It’s a cultural battle that signals both fear and optimism for the future of a troubled land.
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