Full coverage: Sinn Féin

The guest list at the Stormont commemoration of the Good Friday Agreement showed that it worked because it brought in republicans. Adams understands it also requires unionist support.

There is more to Sinn Féin’s climate policy than its opposition to the carbon tax or its non-commital stance on the emission cuts needed in agriculture, an in-depth discussion with Lynn Boylan and Darren O’Rourke reveals.

If Micheál Martin can take comfort from his personal popularity and the assessment of his time as Taoiseach, any analysis of how the Fianna Fáil he leads is perceived produces bleak results.

If a state of high dudgeon can be reached in the current circumstances, how will the political parties cope when high-grade manure drops from the sky without warning as inevitably it will?

One of the consequences of the Stormont election will be a renewed attention on the north and with Micheál Martin stepping down as Taoiseach in December, it might be an area he wants to focus on.

The Claire Byrne Live show on the rise of Sinn Fein felt like the last gasp for a dying formula in the coverage of public affairs. Younger generations aren't interested in the lowest common denominator.

Mary Lou McDonald talks about a “constipated” civil service. Based on my decade on the inside, I think we could help reform it by ending permanent tenure, prioritising outside appointments for delivery roles and being flexible on remuneration. But would the permanent government allow this to happen?

Mary Lou McDonald's speech at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis will be another stepping stone as the party gets ready for power but who will be their junior partners in government if required?

In this podcast, Colm Tóibín talks to Dion Fanning about anxiety and the pandemic, the precision of a novelist and why Michael D Higgins couldn't attend a partition commemoration.

President Higgins sometimes uses language that is impenetrable, but it will soon become clear if there are consequences to the decision not to attend the event marking partition in Armagh in October.