Professor Peter Shirlow

WHEN younger I worked in a loyalist bar.

A MAJORITY think the revised EU-UK deal on the protocol paves the way for the DUP's return to Stormont, according to the latest polling.

THE coverage of the upcoming election has, somewhat wearily, focussed upon the fortunes of the 'big two', who seem to be the only parties deemed relevant upon the political stage.

THE ROLE of identity politics in hindering reconciliation and prosperity will be considered by academics and commentators at an event later this month.

MORE than a third of people would support ‘drawing a line under the past’ with a general amnesty for Troubles-related offences, new research shows.

A WOMAN whose son was killed ended up, through her work, in the home of her son’s killer.

He's the affable academic who's not afraid to tell political unionism a few home truths.

ONE in five voters doesn’t know who they’ll cast their ballot for in the forthcoming Stormont election, according to the new Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool/The Irish News poll.

SINN Féin is on course to be Stormont’s largest party following the May 5 election with a slump forecast in the DUP’s vote, according to the results of a new opinion poll published today in The Irish News.

THE Northern Ireland Protocol is a process and not an event.