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‘Government must not lock Ireland into long-term gas addiction in short-term effort to distract US president’

Musk, accompanied by son X, seeks to present the work of Doge as good common sense as Trump stays largely silent

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

Michael Albertus draws upon 15 years of research and fieldwork in his examination of land-holding across the world from the 17th century onwards

Simon Harris says its ‘vital’ EU member states work closely together after Donald Trump orders 25% US import tariff

The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?

President says Elon Musk and himself will unearth ‘hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse’ within US government

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he has ‘full confidence’ in EU response to Trump tariffs

Eagles secure their first Super Bowl in seven years with a 40-22 victory in New Orleans

Unthinkable: Ireland should talk more about Jesus – and I say that as an atheist

Donald Trump says he has spoken to Vladimir Putin about ending war in Ukraine

Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump

Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s Doge from accessing government systems used to process payments

Without turning away from the United States, it is vital for Ireland to remain unambiguously and progressively engaged in collective action in support of Europe

The fear is Musk is treating the machinery of the US federal system as a plaything and something he owns – and that he doesn’t know what he is at

Taoiseach Micheál Martin urges move by US president be withdrawn

From gender to Gaza, climate policy to USAID, the start of Trump’s second term as seen a deluge of orders and pronouncements overturning what has gone before

US president’s plan to expel Gazans may embolden Israeli ultranationalists bent on annexing West Bank

‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters

Trump’s tariffs could reshape global economic order – but not necessarily in the way the US president wants

US president orders work on defence shield going beyond Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ programme that could trigger nuclear arms race

St Patrick’s Day visit should be cancelled if US president remains on ‘trajectory towards ethnic cleansing’, Social Democrats say

Edward Luce: They say always pick your battles. Yet Democrats seem to overlook that they are in a full-blown war

Company is under pressure as sales slip despite 13% surge for Guinness

Beijing also announces an investigation into Google in wake of Trump tariffs

Mexico agrees to send 10,000 members of its national guard ‘to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl’, says Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum

Guinness-maker highlights changing political landscape globally and the threat of tariffs as a key risk to its business

Irish influence in the US may be moving to a different phase rather than declining

Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum says levies delayed in X post

US president had earlier agreed to pause proposed tariffs on Mexico following deal on border

US president sparks fears of trade war with sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

Immediate changes needed against Chinese influence or US will act, Rubio tells Mulino

The values tied to country music — patriotism, rugged individualism, the American Dream — feel, if not tainted by their ties to Trump-era politics, then at the very least complicated by the culture wars

US president has warned he will impose levies on European Union

‘This isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in,’ says Wall Street Journal

US president unleashes general levies of 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China

Carmakers, food producers and construction will be worst hit but consumers across the US, Mexico and Canada could suffer

The American Airlines jet crash in Washington, DC, has haunting echoes of a fatal Air Florida crash in the Potomac in January 1982

Child patient and mother, crew of Air Ambulance aircraft and person on ground killed after jet comes down in Philadelphia

Russian missile strike on apartment block in Poltava kills at least seven and injures 14 including three children, say emergency services