* northern-ireland Archives - Page 7 of 19

Comment: Serving in Ireland taught me the nature of political Islam

Mike Sixsmith: 'As someone inclined to become a soldier, had I been brought up in the hard sectarian areas of Shankill Road, I feel that it is inevitable that I would have joined the terrorists'

My experience fighting in Northern Ireland taught me what might attract young people to political Islam, just as it belonging attracted young men to the IRA.

WATCH: The re-imaging of Sandy Row

Thousands of still images tell the story of a week when the local community and artist Ross Wilson painted over a paramilitary gunman and replaced it with ‘A Portrait of a King’ – a mural of King William III. An important moment to remember as thousands of Orangemen prepare for the Twelfth of July parades.

Northern Ireland leaders look to dismantle ‘peace walls’

The 'Peace Wall' divides Republican and Loyalist neighborhoods in West Belfast

A plan to dismantle the gates, fences and walls dividing Catholic and Protestant areas of Northern Ireland’s built-up areas are to be dismantled within a decade, leaders will announce later.

The forgotten province? Northern Ireland marks Good Friday anniversary

Belfast: Disillusionment and hope intermingled, 15 years on

Politicians in Westminster and Northern Ireland are marking 15 years since the Good Friday Agreement, amid a growing pessimism about the British government’s commitment to breaking disillusionment in the province.

No handshake after murder allegation: Acrimony clouds Sinn Fein by-election win

Sinn Fein held on in Mid-Ulster, but lost 10,000 votes in the process

Sinn Fein’s by-election win in Mid-Ulster has been marred by acrimony, after the victor was accused of being a suspect in the murder of the runner-up’s father.

Comment: Belfast’s union flag rioting is a violent reminder of divisions of the past

Police attend a burning vehicle in Belfast unrest caused by the flag decision

Union flag protests in Belfast are bad news for the image of Northern Ireland, which had undergone such a buoyant transformation, and is now being dragged back decades.

Finucane family slams ‘whitewash’ as Cameron refuses inquiry into ‘shocking’ state collusion

A mural in Belfast remembers Pat Finucane

David Cameron is refusing to grant a public inquiry into the brutal state collusion murder of Pat Finucane, despite anger and disappointment from the Northern Ireland family after Sir Desmond De Silva’s report.