UK needs new EU trade deal, not scraps from the White House
For Keir Starmer, all roads lead back to Brussels, a toxic subject for many Britons but an economic necessity for a country looking to grow
Brexit
The latest news, award-winning analysis, and in-depth features on the UK's exit from the European Union
Northern thriller writer Brian McGilloway: ‘People are having to take sides again. And that’s never good here’
The author on why he no longer writes police procedurals, his distrust of the North’s hierarchy of victimhood, and his compulsion to write
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism
Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism
Letters to the Editor, April 23rd: On Pope Francis, trans rights, Pakistan’s Indus river, and space tourism
‘A world leader who spoke out for the disenfranchised and the impoverished’
Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled
Worldview: Running through contemporary debates is a battle between those who say reconciliation should come before constitutional change and those who argue for the reverse
Northern Ireland retailers bearing ‘a lot of pain’ due to red tape, says NI Chamber
The UK prime minister Keir Starmer will next month host EU leaders at a landmark post-Brexit summit
Workers in Republic pay twice as much tax as those in North but are still better off, says ESRI report
Trade between North and South has increased since Brexit
UK has to pick a side between the US and the EU - and Northern Ireland is stuck in the middle
Rather than seeing a US trade deal as entrenching the sea border, some unionists hope Trump’s new world order might sweep the Windsor Framework away
FAI warns of Brexit impact shrinking Ireland’s talent pool
Government funding of €8m for club academies could be included in October’s budget
Don’t blame all Americans for Donald Trump
That liberal, decent, brave America many of us used to know, the one that is deeply flawed but still full of generosity is still there, clinging to the wreckage
From Delhi to Dublin: ‘I ended up making really good friends, they are my safety net’
New to the Parish: Nishtha Khanna moved from India to Ireland in September 2020
EU sympathy for Ireland’s tariffs predicament likely to be in short supply
After the ‘open door’ days of Brexit diplomacy, now Ireland is just one of many competing voices vying to be heard as the EU plans countermeasures
Tariff reaction day brings news of strong tax revenues, a warning on jobs and talk of pivoting to new markets
The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
Trump tariffs explained: What will the different EU and UK rates mean for Northern Ireland?
Unique position could create more uncertainty for North’s ‘slow-growing economy’
US tariffs: For distillery north of the Border, the picture is further complicated by Brexit
‘You add tariffs on anything coming from the US whiskey industry, then that is a major issue,’ says Wild Atlantic Distillery cofounder
Abundance; The Care Economy; The Measure of Progress: ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born’
Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Diane Coyle - examine the failures of liberal democracy, and how we can chart a course to a better future
‘Fascinating and disturbing’: How our brains and genetics dictate our ideologies - and vice versa
Dr Leor Zmigrod has found differences in the brain structures and functions of people with different ideologies. Could this science be used by malicious agents?
The experience of Irish Britons: ‘If you’re English and Irish at the same time like I am, it’s a bit of a problem’
The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...
Yes, Amazon.ie will give Irish shoppers choice. But no, it’s not ‘good news for all’
Retailers face challenge of working with online platform or going head-to-head with it for business
David McWilliams: We witnessed in the White House the ‘Doonbegisation’ of Irish foreign policy
We know it’s a fantasy but let’s take it and move on, because the battles ahead will change our world in ways we have not yet contemplated
Ryan owns a tanning business. Yolanda is a Mel B impersonator. These are Britain’s main industries since Brexit
Patrick Freyne: Love Triangle UK’s contestants are earnest and well meaning – not, as so often on dating shows, monstrous, sexually prolific sociopaths
The debate: Should the State develop a terminal for liquefied natural gas?
Geopolitical upheaval, energy security and reliance on UK for supplies are forcing a rethink on the ban on LNG
Ryanair removes restriction on non-EU nationals buying shares
Investors from outside the European Union will still be barred from voting at shareholder meetings
Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’
In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean
UK-Ireland summit: How it sought to repair diplomatic damage of recent years
The two governments on message as joint initiatives on everything from wind energy to security abound at convivial UK-Ireland summit
‘The retailer is now facing dramatically increased costs’: Leo Crawford, former CEO of BWG Group
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Anglo-Irish relations have suffered badly over the last decade, and the work to repair them will take time and effort
The key will be to keep London’s attention as Martin, Starmer and ministers meet for talks amid geopolitical upheaval
‘Different currency, same people.’ All-island market offers opportunity and challenges on both sides of the Border
North-South trade has grown rapidly, but more could be done to turn the Dublin Belfast Economic Corridor into a powerhouse, a conference has heard
Irish passport applications from UK hit post-Brexit peak
‘Harsh’ realities of travel and work restrictions are pushing British citizens to seek backdoor EU access, say lawyers
‘This new generation doesn’t like the past’: A night at a unionist meeting
Unionists are ‘allowing republicans/nationalists to get inside our heads’ and control narrative on Irish unity being ‘inevitable’
Northern businesses setting up firms in the Republic to benefit from lower corporation taxes
Some British-based companies increasingly reluctant to trade with Northern Ireland because of the paperwork challenges
There’s a reason why Ireland hasn’t produced a Donald Trump or a Nigel Farage yet
The far right in Ireland is run by the charismatically challenged. If someone capable of stringing a sentence together emerges, that political calculus will change quickly
The Irish Times view on unity opinions: slow shifts are happening
The island seems set for a period of incremental change, dialogue and debate rather than dramatic constitutional change
Majorities in North and South favour planning for Irish unity
More than a third of voters in South say it is extremely important to plan for a possible united Ireland
Support for planning is evident among those for and against Irish unity
Voters are able to distinguish between wanting something to happen and planning for it to
How Brexit killed Frexit
The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states
The UK’s last EU commissioner: ‘The level of contact is speeding up. The tone has changed’
Europe Letter: Julian King says ‘world has changed’ since original Brexit deals were made
Five years on from Brexit Ireland is doing more trade with Britain than ever
Trump’s trade wars can push the UK closer to Europe
UK-EU relations ‘must move away from perception of winners and losers’, minister says
‘Reset’ summit between Keir Starmer and EU leaders to take place in May
Ireland and the EU need to forge a relationship with the Global South
Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First
Barclays pushes out potential move of EU hub from Dublin to Paris to 2027
UK bank doubled its workforce in the Republic to about 300 in the wake of the UK deciding to exit the EU
For Ireland, Trump’s return to White House is akin to Brexit referendum result, says Goodbody report
Goodbody reports states that risks to the Irish economy from the new Trump administration were ‘skewed to the downside, including tariffs and corporate tax changes’
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont Brake
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over
Measures designed to change material realities matter more than sociocultural pieties
Daft Brexit rules have brought havoc for the Alliance Party as well as Northern shoppers
Alliance doesn’t sit on the fence, it walks a tightrope - but it has fallen off over EU regulations
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
To the French, Germans and even the Brits, Ireland is blessed with boring politics
Amid criticism of Ireland’s domestic politics making it hard for new ideas to break through, there’s something to be said for ‘same old, same old’
Former Tory minister Steve Baker: ‘Ireland has been treated badly by the UK. It’s f**king shaming’
Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’
Majority of Brexit voters in UK ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
UK and EU should ‘go big and go fast’ in restoring links following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s election, cross-Europe study says
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow a frame of analysis
Stormont votes to retain some EU trade laws post-Brexit for Northern Ireland
Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years
Assembly members to vote on extending Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading deal
MLAs are expected to continue measures, opposed by some unionists, for four years
Loyalist activist’s legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading rules vote dismissed
Application by Jamie Bryson for leave for judicial review against Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn rejected in emergency hearing at Belfast High Court
‘It is a right that was violently taken away’: The Jews who want to be German again
Jews whose family members fled the Nazis in the 1930s have reclaimed their German citizenship
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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