Brexit

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