Brexit

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

The fallen fund manager seemingly thought he was right about Brexit and almost every mainstream economist was wrong