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Reform UK leader accused of having ‘hissy fit’ to distract from ongoing investigation in to undeclared £5m ‘gift’ he received

Alleged offences occurred on Monday at a unit in Euro Business Park in Little Island, Co Cork

Pair are among group of prominent figures whose case was dismissed by UK high court

Brexit created ‘unrealistic’ expectations in the UK about controlling Border between Nort and the Republic, says academic

Would it remain Northern Ireland, though under the ultimate jurisdiction of Dublin, rather than London? Or would it be subsumed into a united Ireland?

Worldview: Radical change can come faster than anyone expects

The story of the American Revolution was mostly written by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who downplayed the role of Scots-Irish and Irish

Dr Anthony McGrath was given an eight-year prison sentence in 2019 after staging a burglary at his home to pay debts

Number of breeding curlews in Ireland has dropped by an estimated 98% since 1980s

Kerrie O’Connell’s family only learned of existence of Meningitis B vaccine after her death in 2024

Former glam rock singer will appear in court in London in August

Police watchdog says it will examine factors such as ‘whether officers’ decisions were influenced by assumptions or prejudice relating to community tensions’

This year I’ve lived longer out of Ireland than in it. Will this gradually start to make me less Irish?

Dr Anthony McGrath was jailed for eight years over an insurance scam in 2019

Former Greater Manchester mayor, who could become UK’s next PM by mid-July, is not short on options

‘A Border poll will come at some stage, but that’s not where we are now’, former UUP senator tells SDLP conference

Spain records 212 deaths due to heat in four days amid Continent-wide heatwave

Both sides have lost since the UK left the bloc. Here is how to get things moving again

Andy Burnham, his likely successor as UK prime minister, won’t have any such luxury

But UK politics is hostile to making tough and necessary choices

A handful of outside-bet candidates have not ruled themselves out of the leadership competition

Outgoing British PM helped boost security for Continent, says Ursula von der Leyen

Officials expect close relationship between Dublin and London to continue under Andy Burnham government

Move would clear the way for Andy Burnham to become prime minister without formal contest

Heat alerts issued for more than 75% of population with more than 800 schools to close

Starmer may be on his way out but the issues that constrained his premiership won’t go with him

Starmer, who has faced ‘political realities’ of his situation, set to be replaced by newly-elected MP Andy Burnham

A train driver died after two East Midlands Railway trains crashed near Bedford

Andy Burnham’s byelection win prompts more backbenchers and Labour grandees to call for Starmer to step aside

A writer perfectly placed to examine the impact of this ‘act of self-harm’

‘People were crying, screaming, people were so scared and confused’, passenger says following incident near Bedford

Taoiseach congratulates former mayor of Manchester on success in Makerfield byelection

Trinity College remains best-rated university in Ireland while UCD breaks into world’s top 100 for first time in 15 years

If Labour can fail in former mining towns then there may be no stopping Nigel Farage’s populist Reform party

Incident comes after UK seized a Russia-linked oil tanker, the Smyrtos, off the coast of the Isle of Wight

Former president compares AI to the ‘garbage’ people were fed by Church and State at the time she was growing up

Jury heard three men offered payment to set fire to car and two houses linked to UK PM by Russian-speaking figure named El Money

Proposal will see children’s access to platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X restricted

Vessel will ⁠be ​held and monitored ​off the south coast of England as investigations ‌continue

Switzerland provides an alternative model for the UK