Brexit

Ferry company also defends decision to axe Rosslare-Cherbourg service earlier the year

UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’

The Windsor Framework is so badly designed the whole of Europe could tighten its immigration laws and Northern Ireland might still be blocked from doing likewise

Nearly 100,000 people work in a sector critical to the North’s economic success

Exemption allowing medicinal products to be supplied from Britain expires within weeks

Nearly a decade after the referendum and five years after the UK’s exit from the EU, the economic and political price is all too clear

Report on second module of UK inquiry into pandemic strongly critical of Michelle O’Neill for attending IRA man’s funeral in June 2020

Ben Collins favours Irish unity and encourages others of similar heritage to engage with subject

The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry

Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties

Our openness can be a strength and we need managed growth in labour force to remain competitive

Policy Exchange, which has been criticised for failing to disclose its funders, releases report assessing State’s international status

Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm

Nostalgia can not blind us to the new realities of the collapsing alliance between the US and Europe

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK

Ireland’s early morning pre-summit meeting with Nordic and Baltic States is now a fixture of Brussels diplomacy

Questions well posed here may be impossible to resolve, but they will consume the attention of a generation

Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference

This is a lively and at times bitingly funny attempt at summarising a broad field

It had been understood that they could take until 2027

Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool

Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block

The protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation

Allegation that Mercosur might adversely affect beef farmers through falling prices is a scare story without real foundation

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