Stephen Collins: London’s next U-turn may be on free tradeBluster made British slow to perceive that EU solidarity bolstered Ireland with powerFri Oct 25 2019 - 06:00
Stephen Collins: Brexit deal reveals politics at its best and worstUK departure saga from EU shows that political compromise a virtue rather than a viceFri Oct 18 2019 - 06:00
Stephen Collins: Brexit gave Paschal Donohoe the opportunity to bring in a sensible budgetFine Gael colleagues disappointed over absence of new measures to reduce income taxThu Oct 10 2019 - 20:03
Stephen Collins: Johnson’s backstop offer should not be dismissed out of handTaking emotion out of Brexit proposals, or at least minimising it, will be vital on all sidesThu Oct 03 2019 - 19:11
Irish nationalism and unionism have paralysed WestminsterParnell never reduced Commons to sorry state Tory diehards have dragged it intoFri Sept 27 2019 - 06:00
Political violence has returned and we can’t blame it on BrexitViolence in Derry and Border areas a symptom of wider political failureThu Sept 19 2019 - 17:07
Stephen Collins: Phil Hogan could prove to be Britain’s post-Brexit saviourIrishman as trade commissioner has vested interest in easing EU-UK tradeFri Sept 13 2019 - 06:00
Varadkar must avoid being used in Johnson’s election gamesThe Taoiseach needs to sidestep the trap of being cast as the truculent Irish manFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Brexiteers may have just made another mistakeExpectation that EU will cave in and give Boris Johnson what he wants remains far-fetchedFri Aug 30 2019 - 06:00
Stephen Collins: The unsung virtues of Charlie FlanaganMinister for Justice does a difficult job well and avoids attracting unnecessary attentionFri Aug 23 2019 - 01:36
Lynch’s call on Battle of Bogside has stood test of timeThen taoiseach’s courage and political skill avoided a disastrous civil warFri Aug 16 2019 - 00:58
Tories willing to sabotage UK out of blind hatred of EUBoris Johnson has made it easier for EU leaders to refuse to budge on Brexit dealFri Aug 09 2019 - 06:00
Varadkar needs to prepare Ireland for no-deal BrexitPreparing for the worst will mean no tax cuts and tighter departmental budgetsThu Aug 01 2019 - 16:31
Confrontational Johnson makes it easy for VaradkarStephen Collins: Doesn’t matter now what Taoiseach or Tánaiste say about the backstopFri Jul 26 2019 - 10:48
Spineless Dáil exposed by its rejection of trade dealUninformed decision on free trade bodes badly for serious looming challengesFri Jul 19 2019 - 09:40
Dublin must be open to a last-minute compromise on backstopGovernment and Opposition will have to weigh carefully where national interest liesThu Jul 11 2019 - 06:00
Varadkar’s stance on top EU jobs enhances his standingIrish strategy was to press Barnier’s claims if the opportunity aroseThu Jul 04 2019 - 06:00
Stephen Collins: The virtual silence on Shatter's hounding from office is oddFrenzied reporting helped ensure the former minister was wrongly hounded from officeFri Jun 28 2019 - 06:55
Stephen Collins: Donohoe’s decisions will make or break GovernmentFine Gael’s reputation hinges on taking measures needed to get spending under controlThu Jun 20 2019 - 05:00
Local election aftermath a wake-up call for Fine GaelParties coalescing around Fianna Fáil the most likely outcome after general electionThu Jun 13 2019 - 05:00
Labour, Greens and Social Democrats can play key role in next electionLeft-wing alliance could have major say in formation of next governmentThu May 30 2019 - 05:00
Nigel Farage and Sinn Féin are bedfellows when it comes to EuropeNo surprise Brexit Party using clips of Mary Lou McDonald speeches at ralliesThu May 23 2019 - 05:00
King and Queen of Sweden to meet President and Taoiseach in DublinSwedish ambassador said visit aims to cement relationship between the two countriesTue May 21 2019 - 14:56
Ireland's politicians are fooling nobody with their ‘climate emergency’Dáil’s hypocrisy on climate change will only add to corrosive cynicism about politicsThu May 16 2019 - 11:46
Stephen Collins: Those intent on EU’s destruction need to be exposedMicheál Martin was right to call out Sinn Féin and a number of Independent candidates as being inherently anti-EuropeanThu May 09 2019 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Politics of centre ground has served Ireland wellMuch maligned middle classes deserve credit for progressive tax and welfare systemThu May 02 2019 - 05:00
Referendum to cap insurance awards may be the only solutionJudges and lawyers are in denial about compensation culture now out of controlThu Apr 18 2019 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Why the French fear a long Brexit goodbyeEmmanuel Macron fears subversion of EU just as his predecessor Charles de Gaulle didThu Apr 11 2019 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Conservatives finally crack in Varadkar’s game of chickenDeep split in Theresa May’s party now the biggest obstacle to soft BrexitThu Apr 04 2019 - 05:00
Letting UK hold another European election would be disastrousEuropean Parliament already faces increase of populist forces in next assemblyThu Mar 28 2019 - 05:00
Sinn Féin’s Brit-bashing is damaging to political discourseReturn to antique rhetoric suggests unionists have no right to live on this islandThu Mar 21 2019 - 05:00
House of Commons’s Brexit irresponsibility makes Irish democracy look goodStephen Collins: Failure to come together at time of national peril reveals rot in UK politicsThu Mar 14 2019 - 05:00
Brexit talks contain uncanny echoes of events a century agoEU gives Government cover to compromise on Border issue long overlooked in LondonThu Mar 07 2019 - 05:00
Current Dáil tottering toward demise as 'new politics' failsExperiment in ‘new politics’ has demonstrably failedThu Feb 28 2019 - 05:00
De Valera's empty formula could solve UK's Brexit impasseStephen Collins: Irish leader’s 1927 formula offers a way forward for the UK and EUThu Feb 21 2019 - 05:00
Coarsening of Irish politics in nobody’s interestsAppalled reaction to protest outside Simon Harris’s home may offer ray of hopeThu Feb 14 2019 - 05:00
Occupied Territories Bill’s proponents are as bad as BrexiteersStephen Collins: The legislation is political posturing that will have costly consequencesThu Feb 07 2019 - 05:00
Ireland cannot afford Leo Varadkar’s foolish missteps on BrexitStephen Collins: Government must maintain a cool head to counter Britain’s delusionThu Jan 31 2019 - 05:00
Sinn Féin reveals true self again with Venezuela infatuationParty dismisses concerns about electoral fraud, rights abuses and corruptionThu Jan 24 2019 - 05:00
Labour’s left wants chaos as much as the hardest Brexiteers doStephen Collins: The British party’s left-wing has long had a cynical attitude to IrelandThu Jan 17 2019 - 05:00
It’s time we took European Parliament elections seriouslyMay presents Ireland with chance to bolster a union burdened by populism and BrexitThu Jan 10 2019 - 05:00
Overlap between FG and FF good for Irish democracyEuropean model of left versus right politics is currently in meltdownThu Dec 20 2018 - 05:00
Decent middle England should reassert itself over BrexitBritish public opinion helped persuade UK government to grant our independenceThu Dec 13 2018 - 05:00
Emmanuel Macron pays price for doing the right thingProtests over fuel price rises in France provide a salutary lesson for political leadersThu Dec 06 2018 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Brexit is no excuse for bashing the BritishIrish sneering at UK’s nervous breakdown is offensive and counter-productiveThu Nov 29 2018 - 05:00
Stephen Collins: Varadkar is gambling on tax cutsReturning to the tax-cutting agenda does not appear at first to make sense unless there has been a change of public mood since 2016Thu Nov 22 2018 - 05:00
Theresa May’s task has echoes of challenge faced by Michael CollinsUK prime minister must also sell her deal to a divided cabinet and parliamentThu Nov 15 2018 - 06:45
Khruschev sent Irish diplomat wine after ‘shoe banging’ incidentRussian president had furious row with Freddie Boland at UN in October 1960Tue Nov 13 2018 - 05:00
Officials tried to get JFK to visit Dublin in 1961Letter shows the US president was invited to Ireland soon after his inaugurationTue Nov 13 2018 - 05:00
Why Hitler's top SS man bought a farm in Co KildarePapers reveal exchanges between officials and ministers divided over Nazi Otto SkorzenyTue Nov 13 2018 - 05:00
