Ireland’s house prices, earnings and favourite cars, from the 1970s to today in six charts
Central Statistics Office releases data on Ireland’s 50 year membership of the EU
Ireland’s 50 years in the EU
Ireland is one of the EU’s most successful case studies
Its trajectory from poor, rural member state on the periphery is relevant for Ukraine and others
Irish people struggling with energy crisis costs more than others in EU
European Commission report also highlights impact higher interest rates having on consumers here
Ireland enters top 10 of countries seen as having least public corruption, index suggests
Report from Transparency International finds western Europe perceived as least corrupt region in world
Is Ireland closer to Paris or Berlin?
Our correspondents on the links between Dublin and the capitals of France and Germany
A newborn arrived in our house on the day Ireland joined the EEC. I was that Euro baby
Many of the improvements in our day-to-day life stem directly from European legislation
Irish people have played important role in EU, but not always in a way that pleases Brussels
Analysis: The EU is not effective enough in offering viable solutions to ever-growing problems
Don’t believe the Eurosceptic press. The EU is far from the bureaucratic monolith it portrays
Catherine Day: The European Union is still a work in progress, and each generation will bring its view of the future to its construction
Tony Connelly: When will Ukraine join the EU – and how is Ireland helping the cause?
Ireland is one of only two western member states to join ‘EUkraine’, a group of 12 countries pushing for a positive response to President Zelenskiy’s request
‘Diplomacy, compromise and respect are the only way we can move on’
In Northern Ireland, Brexit proved a catalyst for political awakening in a generation that sees the EU debate through the prism of the debate on Irish unity
‘My grandmother felt culture shock in Ireland. People here were far more status-conscious than she was used to’
The stroke had taken her consciousness before I got home. I sang to her, having heard that music can reach parts of brain when words no longer can
Fintan O’Toole: Half a century on we can see the benefits of Ireland joining Europe’s top table
State joined the EEC immediately after the bloodiest year in the history of the Troubles
Ireland’s neutrality debate is set to heat up in a radically new defence landscape
The Republic relies on its EU and Nato neighbours whose own security situations have deteriorated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Fifty years later, I still think EU membership was a mistake
In 2001 and 2008 the Irish public showed clearly their concern at our trajectory, but our establishment was no longer willing to turn back
Frank McNally: What has the EU ever done for us?
Before cheap flights were ushered in by deregulation Paris and Prague were about as accessible for most Irish people as space is now
Bobby McDonagh: Rishi Sunak knows Brexit Britain can’t play silly buggers any more
The UK has to face up to the importance of the Northern Ireland protocol after the damage done by Boris Johnson’s unnecessarily hard form of Brexit
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