The topic of potential Irish unity is currently at the forefront of national debate to a degree not witnessed in decades. A special 10-question Business Post/Red C survey takes a deep dive into attitudes to the national question among people in the South

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Dennis Hutchings’s death raises difficult questions about who should be put through a trial process but the fact remains that victims of the Troubles deserve justice

Seeking an end to the current Stormont power-sharing arrangement would surely backfire, and the unionist demand that the protocol must go could ultimately destroy the union

The new proposals are practical and show Europe’s willingness to do a deal, but Boris Johnson has little incentive to solve the impasse and move on

The embattled DUP leader is in dire need of a win, but his entente cordiale with Jim Allister’s hardline Traditional Unionist Voice is recklessly ill-advised

The brutal killing of the investigative journalist in 2001 was a blatant act of intimidation and an attack on democracy, but two decades on, official Ireland remains indifferent

The President would be put in a false position if his presence at the partition commemoration in Armagh were interpreted as a gesture of approval by the Irish state

The President’s refusal to attend a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of partition has been described as a ‘hand grenade’ by one source within the coalition

The DUP leader’s call to bring down the North’s institutions over the Northern Ireland protocol looks like a desperate and not very credible threat to address dwindling support for his party

The DUP leader also said his party would be withdrawing “immediately” from the North-South ministerial forums that were set up as part of the Good Friday Agreement

The DUP leader’s appointment as trade envoy to Cameroon is at odds with his declared intention to return to Stormont as soon as possible

The new Ulster Unionist Party leader needs to carve out a position that is more than DUP-lite for the party to have relevance

In his latest objection to the Brexit workaround for Northern Ireland, Boris Johnson is struggling to come to terms with the hard divorce from the EU which he so relentlessly pursued

Anglo-Irish relations under increased strain over British government’s plan to end prosecutions for crimes related to the Troubles in Northern Ireland

The British government is playing to its home audience by seeking to close down inquiries into killings during the Troubles, but the Irish government is right to oppose the move

A border poll may come sooner than we think, despite what Boris Johnson has said. But some unionists will never be swayed, even if there’s a majority in the North for a united Ireland

Under the British proposals, a statute of limitations would end the involvement of the courts in all Troubles related activity, including criminal offences, civil actions and inquests in a move that would create an effective amnesty for security forces and paramilitaries

The new DUP leader knows very well that his demands to abolish the Northern Ireland protocol are utterly unrealistic

Leo Varadkar’s timing and motives are debatable, but his speech raises a topic that bears discussing without much more delay