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Common Ground is an Irish Times project on past, present and future relationships on the Island of Ireland; between the Republic, Northern Ireland and Britain
Introducing Common Ground - A message from the Editor: This new project will focus on the inter-connectedness between North and South, between Britain and Ireland, but also between the constituent parts of the UK and within Northern Ireland itself irishtimes.com/media/2024/02/…
Michael McDowell: Many people won’t decide how to vote in a Border poll until they see what's on offer irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…
Opinion: Some see July 12th bonfires as sectarian. For others, they’re about social cohesion irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…
Paul Gosling: You might as well expect Conor McGregor and Paul Murphy to work together as Stormont to function irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…
A Marshall Plan is needed for loyalist communities, and so much more irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Former US ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith turned against Sinn Féin after 9/11, British files claim irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Supreme Court is still changing society, says Attorney General irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Better-off children ‘sailing away from the have nots’, warns Ombudsman irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Partition was ‘designed to be intractable’, says Micheál Martin irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Government fears referendum to give Irish diaspora vote in presidential elections ‘could be lost’ irishtimes.com/ireland/social…
Easyjet’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou: ‘Michael O’Leary has this philosophy that if you lower customer expectations, you can lower your costs’ irishtimes.com/business/2025/…
National histories are always something of a stitch-up - English identities in particular irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…
Irish unification would cost €152m annually to give Northern Irish civil servants pay parity, report says irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
Population of the Republic grew by nearly a third in 20 years, study finds irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…
Senator George Mitchell: The man Ian Paisley called ‘a foreigner and a pro-Irish republican’ irishtimes.com/culture/film/2…
Irish in Archway: Death of an ‘old boy from Ireland’ in London-Irish suburb irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…
Stormont is slow, afraid of new thinking and costly, says report irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…
For Stewart, the British-Irish relationship is, or should be, Whitehall’s central relationship, with the UK’s only land border and with linguistic and social connections ‘unlike those that exist anywhere else in Europe’ irishtimes.com/business/2025/…
Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’ irishtimes.com/business/2025/…
Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s must have been groaning with future celebrities of the diaspora irishtimes.com/culture/music/…
US multinationals will be slow to return operations to US, Ibec leader says irishtimes.com/business/econo…
