The Tánaiste Simon Harris has written to all political leaders across the island to seek their views on Irish unity and to explore what common ground exists on Irish reunification.
Events in Moscow gave the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Dublin a hard edge, shining a sharper spotlight than might have been expected on Micheál Martin's master of ceremonies role.
More than half of voters in Northern Ireland believe the UK should rejoin the European Union a decade after the Brexit referendum, a new opinion poll has suggested.
A tanker ship collided with a luxury paddle wheeler docked in New Orleans on the Mississippi River in the US yesterday, causing the cruise vessel to roll over and sink.