A large number of members of the Defence Forces are travelling over the border to access private health care. And that number is about to grow larger still as PDFORRA expands the scheme to former members.
The funding aimed to turn the Belfast company into a global leader of integrated animal, human and environmental health solutions. Having sold down assets, it is refocusing on livestock feed ingredients instead.
Integrating Northern Ireland would cost the Republic a lot of money, but establishing the nature of the transformation to be paid for is more likely to cause difficulty than the final amount involved.
The final meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council that included Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney took place on Monday in Armagh. All the major players from both side of the border were there. But two of them won’t be back.
Northern Ireland provides an unlikely anchor of calm for those looking across the border – including outgoing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
After witnessing some of the worst horrors of the Troubles, veteran journalist Eamonn Mallie is optimistic about Northern Ireland's new leadership. He discusses his newly published memoir on an hour-long podcast.
Stormont is the good news story the US needs right now. But on the way back, Sinn Féin is making personnel changes to prepare for elections in the Republic, Tommie Gorman writes from Washington.
There is a severe shortage of money for policy initiatives in Northern Ireland despite the billions flowing from London. One of the options for the DUP is to put the past behind it and reach out to Dublin.
The DUP is returning to Stormont and Viktor Orbán has dropped his veto on helping Ukraine, but it could take more economic damage before the benefits of international cooperation overcome narrow domestic interests – including in Ireland.
Jeffery Donaldson has confronted his party’s hardliners in a way that Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster never managed to achieve. For the DUP and Sinn Féin, the real work begins now.
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