Free State

Podcaster and former footballer Brolly sat down for the long form interview with the BBC broadcaster for a Radio Ulster Red Lines special.  

ONE hundred years ago, on July 20 1923, the president of the Irish Free State executive council, WT Cosgrave, announced in Dáil Éireann that he had appointed Eoin MacNeill as the "best person to represent the Saorstát [Free State] as our Nominee on the Boundary Commission".

In May 1923, Armagh-born and newly appointed anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff Frank Aiken issued an order to republicans to dump their arms, thus bringing an end to the hostilities of the 11-month long civil war.

This weekend 100 years ago, on April 1 1923, a 'temporary frontier' on imported goods was placed on the boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.

WITH the death of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in August 1922, the new leaders of the provisional government of the Irish Free State adopted a different policy on Northern Ireland, particularly to the ones pursued by Collins for much of the first half of 1922.

THE REPUBLIC’S establishment parties have appropriated the name 'Ireland' with the “deliberate aim of casting the north as the other”, according to Sinn Féin’s former publicity director.

HOUSING activists in the Republic have handed an open letter to Finance Minister Michael Noonan, calling on him to order the use of vacant, state-controlled properties to house the homeless.