Northern businesses setting up firms in the Republic to benefit from lower corporation taxes
Some British-based companies increasingly reluctant to trade with Northern Ireland because of the paperwork challenges
Brexit
The latest news, award-winning analysis, and in-depth features on the UK's exit from the European Union
There’s a reason why Ireland hasn’t produced a Donald Trump or a Nigel Farage yet
The far right in Ireland is run by the charismatically challenged. If someone capable of stringing a sentence together emerges, that political calculus will change quickly
The Irish Times view on unity opinions: slow shifts are happening
The island seems set for a period of incremental change, dialogue and debate rather than dramatic constitutional change
Majorities in North and South favour planning for Irish unity
More than a third of voters in South say it is extremely important to plan for a possible united Ireland
Support for planning is evident among those for and against Irish unity
Voters are able to distinguish between wanting something to happen and planning for it to
How Brexit killed Frexit
The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states
The UK’s last EU commissioner: ‘The level of contact is speeding up. The tone has changed’
Europe Letter: Julian King says ‘world has changed’ since original Brexit deals were made
Five years on from Brexit Ireland is doing more trade with Britain than ever
Trump’s trade wars can push the UK closer to Europe
UK-EU relations ‘must move away from perception of winners and losers’, minister says
‘Reset’ summit between Keir Starmer and EU leaders to take place in May
Ireland and the EU need to forge a relationship with the Global South
Worldview: We need to forge a a rational, interest-based response to America First
Barclays pushes out potential move of EU hub from Dublin to Paris to 2027
UK bank doubled its workforce in the Republic to about 300 in the wake of the UK deciding to exit the EU
For Ireland, Trump’s return to White House is akin to Brexit referendum result, says Goodbody report
Goodbody reports states that risks to the Irish economy from the new Trump administration were ‘skewed to the downside, including tariffs and corporate tax changes’
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont Brake
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
The worst of this strange decade of wokeness is over
Measures designed to change material realities matter more than sociocultural pieties
Daft Brexit rules have brought havoc for the Alliance Party as well as Northern shoppers
Alliance doesn’t sit on the fence, it walks a tightrope - but it has fallen off over EU regulations
Ten predictions experts made about the world in 2025. All of them are wrong
When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert
To the French, Germans and even the Brits, Ireland is blessed with boring politics
Amid criticism of Ireland’s domestic politics making it hard for new ideas to break through, there’s something to be said for ‘same old, same old’
Former Tory minister Steve Baker: ‘Ireland has been treated badly by the UK. It’s f**king shaming’
Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’
Majority of Brexit voters in UK ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
UK and EU should ‘go big and go fast’ in restoring links following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s election, cross-Europe study says
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow a frame of analysis
Stormont votes to retain some EU trade laws post-Brexit for Northern Ireland
Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years
Assembly members to vote on extending Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading deal
MLAs are expected to continue measures, opposed by some unionists, for four years
Loyalist activist’s legal challenge to Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading rules vote dismissed
Application by Jamie Bryson for leave for judicial review against Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn rejected in emergency hearing at Belfast High Court
‘It is a right that was violently taken away’: The Jews who want to be German again
Jews whose family members fled the Nazis in the 1930s have reclaimed their German citizenship
Brexit has created ‘new barriers’ for women fleeing domestic violence cross-Border
Jurisdictional challenges mean that victims-survivors often left in vulnerable and precarious situations, says North South Co-operation to Tackle Violence Against Women report
Brexit survey: most voters in Northern Ireland back retaining trade deal but hardline unionists strongly opposed
Survey finds Windsor Framework rules, under which the North continues to follow some EU laws on goods, backed by majority in North as Assembly vote looms
Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
Stormont vote on continuing Brexit deal the ‘most significant’ in Assembly’s history - Allister
TUV leader says MLAs are being asked to ‘surrender’ sovereignty to Brussels
Can the hard man of Brexit fix corporate groupthink?
Former Tory MP Steve Baker believes he and LSE professor Paul Dolan have the answer to a persistent business problem
Nearly two thirds of Irish SMEs have reduced or stopped using British suppliers since Brexit
New survey by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) reveals ‘stark changes in Irish SME trading patterns with Britain’ after EU departure
Mr Eason: The Meath accountant who turned a bookshop chain into a cash cow
Having survived Brexit, Covid and competition from Amazon, Liam Hanly has a new plan to grow profits
Mayo meat plant’s licence to burn animal waste in new incinerator to be reviewed on dangerous emissions rule
Environmental Protection Agency is scrutinising terms of permit for Dawn Meats in Ballyhaunis
UK government must say what Brussels ‘reset’ means, says EU delegation head
‘New phase in bilateral relationship’ is possible, Sandro Gozi says
Micheál Martin says he was never briefed about alleged Russian spy in the Oireachtas
Peadar Tóibín says Senators ‘sniggered like giddy children’ as they denied being reported infiltrator during Seanad sitting
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Six Nations 2025
Get the latest news, analysis and match reports from the M6N and W6N championships
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices