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’
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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’
Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’
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
Focusing on the impact on wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow a frame of analysis
Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years
MLAs are expected to continue measures, opposed by some unionists, for four years
Application by Jamie Bryson for leave for judicial review against Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn rejected in emergency hearing at Belfast High Court
Jews whose family members fled the Nazis in the 1930s have reclaimed their German citizenship
Jurisdictional challenges mean that victims-survivors often left in vulnerable and precarious situations, says North South Co-operation to Tackle Violence Against Women report
Survey finds Windsor Framework rules, under which the North continues to follow some EU laws on goods, backed by majority in North as Assembly vote looms
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
TUV leader says MLAs are being asked to ‘surrender’ sovereignty to Brussels
Former Tory MP Steve Baker believes he and LSE professor Paul Dolan have the answer to a persistent business problem
New survey by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) reveals ‘stark changes in Irish SME trading patterns with Britain’ after EU departure
Having survived Brexit, Covid and competition from Amazon, Liam Hanly has a new plan to grow profits
Environmental Protection Agency is scrutinising terms of permit for Dawn Meats in Ballyhaunis
‘New phase in bilateral relationship’ is possible, Sandro Gozi says
Peadar Tóibín says Senators ‘sniggered like giddy children’ as they denied being reported infiltrator during Seanad sitting
And how can we avoid falling victim to them?
Europe Letter: Brussels and London will have to give each other some leeway for post-Brexit reset to work
Tongue-in-cheek denials follow recent reports that an Oireachtas member had allegedly been recruited by Russian intelligence
Former Tory PM makes claim about US president in new memoir, Unleashed, which also focuses on Brexit tensions over Irish Border
Brexit and the sea border have dragged all aspects of trade with Northern Ireland into the zero-sum game of traditional politics
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen set to meet UK prime minister Keir Starmer in Brussels
Michael O’Leary says the airline’s board is reviewing the restrictions it put in place after Brexit to meet EU rules
Former taoiseach to publish his memoirs next year in a publishing deal reportedly involving a six-figure sum
Hilary Benn and Micheál Martin give speeches at British Irish Association conference in Oxford
Starmer’s first visit to Ireland since becoming UK prime minister is another opportunity to strengthen ties frayed by the nadir of the Truss-Johnson era and Dublin’s sometimes sharp tone
Republic is second largest source of foreign direct investment for Northern Ireland
PM’s meeting with French president follows recent visit to Germany where he said he was not ‘reversing Brexit’ amid plans for treaty
Living in the UK almost 40 years, Peter Benson is thrilled about Labour’s election victory. ‘We have grown-ups in 10 Downing Street now,’ he writes
The Labour government has a genuinely toxic inheritance from the Conservatives, politically, diplomatically and technically
The former tánaiste reflects on the ‘fun behind the craziness’ of Liz Truss, the ‘intellectual snobbery’ Enda Kenny faced, and Michel Barnier’s shock at the warm welcome he received on the streets of Dublin
British prime minister to visit on September 7th, the night of a football match in Dublin between the Republic of Ireland and Englan
And it works both ways. Harris’s warmth towards the UK is being rewarded with a softening of Keir Starmer’s stance on a Border poll
The way he contested the leadership of Fine Gael with Leo Varadkar in 2017 won him many admirers
While the right-wing Tory factions meet to plan a ‘rebuild’, election winners gathered in parliament to be sworn in
To put it crudely, a big part of the appeal of Brexit was scale. It felt like a very big thing to do, just as, later in 2016, electing a celebrity non-politician to the White House felt big
New British PM Keir Starmer says he looks forward to ‘working closely’ with Simon Harris after years of post-Brexit strain
Raw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and Europe
Farage’s party got a bigger vote than the Liberal Democrats but ended up with 67 fewer seats
Bulk freight volumes at the port declined in 2023 amid soaring inflation
Make no mistake: A far-right government in France would be an earthquake for the EU
Microsoft Office guy’s superyacht; Dyson signs on the line in Co Waterford; Fair City eyes move to commuter belt
The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal
Part of the reason the British right and its media cheerleaders hate Sunak is that, in Brexit-related discussions, he abandoned the futile jingoistic posturing of his predecessors
Lamentations of onlookers about Broken Britain, total crisis and irreversible damage are hollow when you see what’s happening elsewhere in Europe
Enthusiasm peaks at a bar-fuelled gathering of supporters of insurgent party headed by Nigel Farage
Self-inflicted economic, diplomatic and strategic damage will be blamed on Rishi Sunak by Tory media and not on Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or the Brexit-cheerleading media itself
Financial services minister Neale Richmond has warned Britain it will not get ‘free pass’ on Brexit rules if Labour wins the UK election
Rachel Reeves, who is on course to become the first female chancellor of the exchequer, is eyeing economic growth and an improved trade deal with the EU
Television: Englishman’s films burn with fierce moral conviction. That same decency has informed Puttnam’s feelings towards Ireland
Can a Labour government go far enough with constitutional reform to deflect renewed Scottish demands for independence?
Farage’s backing of Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson described as ‘embarrassing’ for TUV leader Jim Allister
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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