Brexit

Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance

Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control

Johnston to leave the British diplomatic service to take up his new role

A thoughtful book about unfortunate men and what their treatment says about British-German relations

Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more

The former Scottish National Party leader talks politics, life, love, pain and her new autobiography

London’s abdication of social and political responsibility has fuelled sense of loss in loyalist areas

Whether we’re moving towards a united Ireland or shared island, we need to face awkward questions about identity

Business on both sides of the Border are trying to figure out the financial implications of Trump’s different tariffs with the UK and EU

Export growth has been strong but not lived up to its potential

French president blames Brexit for making it harder to tackle illegal migration

Sales at Northern Ireland retail group reached £1.4bn last year, new accounts reveal

International Chamber of Commerce says overhaul of rules could help plug £22bn funding gap

The growing alienation from politics reflects the sense among young people that the system has failed them

McRedmond’s credo is: ‘All businesses are dying; you have to find the new thing’. He has lived that philosophy at State-owned postal service, whose core business has shifted from letters to parcels and, increasingly, financial services

The PEM convention would reduce exporters’ post-Brexit difficulties with supply chains

US businessman and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg links Ireland’s recent success to Brexit

Danny Boyle, a stubborn Mancunian of Irish descent, can feel proud of showing how the subject can be addressed without dragging your art into po-faced agitprop

Ireland has become a big draw for foreign lenders post-Brexit with international banks now employing close to 15,000 people in the State

Regulator lays out how US tariffs might hit Ireland’s export-led, multinational-heavy economy

UK government says most veterinary products will remain available as part of post-Brexit arrangements from January

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes star in a quest narrative that, amid its grade-A gore, has bleak fun with the state of Britain

The cost-of-living crisis is still being felt painfully in the weekly shop, yet the consumer protection watchdog has found no evidence of price gouging

14 families burnt out of their homes and children forced to hide from mobs

Physical barriers, checks and controls on people and goods moving between Gibraltar and Spain to be eliminated

Britain is ‘resetting’ its relationship with the EU, seeking that vague notion of ‘closer ties’ – Ireland should be the UK’s ally

Ten years on, an angry tribe sees itself as more English than British - and Ireland must stay alert to the dangers

Deals struck recently with the US, EU and India will not make a significant difference to Britain’s parlous position

Traders in the North have been struggling with ‘Alice in Wonderful’ bureaucracy on customs and regulatory form filing and hope Monday’s deal will herald positive change

Reaction among conservative politicians portrays NI as a victim. It is a short step from there to portraying Britain as a victim of Northern Ireland

Negotiators had clear sense one side could not be seen to ‘win’ in EU-UK deal

The UK’s new post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels is being heralded as a new era for relations

Post-Brexit agreement covers areas such as trade, security and defence contracts, food standards, the energy market and emissions trading

The deal has been agreed between the European Union and the UK and also includes elements on security and defence

Tánaiste Simon Harris praises ‘significant benefits’ for NI business and consumers

Deals reached on fisheries and agriculture after late-night haggling ahead of summit in London

Keir Starmer to host Ursula von der Leyen for UK’s first formal summit with Brussels since Brexit, with talks on knife edge

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

The author on why he no longer writes police procedurals, his distrust of the North’s hierarchy of victimhood, and his compulsion to write

Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism