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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
The online scams to avoid in Ireland: A new WhatsApp trick, MyGov texts and what to look out for
And how can we avoid falling victim to them?
UK and EU are entering a ‘situationship’
Europe Letter: Brussels and London will have to give each other some leeway for post-Brexit reset to work
No spies coming in from the cold in Seanad as Senators rule themselves out as Russian agent
Tongue-in-cheek denials follow recent reports that an Oireachtas member had allegedly been recruited by Russian intelligence
Boris Johnson says Joe Biden told him his family origins ‘were not really Irish at all’
Former Tory PM makes claim about US president in new memoir, Unleashed, which also focuses on Brexit tensions over Irish Border
How Northern Ireland’s supermarket aisles have become another Brexit battleground
Brexit and the sea border have dragged all aspects of trade with Northern Ireland into the zero-sum game of traditional politics
Chance for ‘rapid progress’ on EU-UK defence deal - MEP
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen set to meet UK prime minister Keir Starmer in Brussels
Ryanair looks to rectify gap between Irish and US share price
Michael O’Leary says the airline’s board is reviewing the restrictions it put in place after Brexit to meet EU rules
Fifteen things to expect in Leo Varadkar’s autobiography
Former taoiseach to publish his memoirs next year in a publishing deal reportedly involving a six-figure sum
UK government warns unionists the Republic could help decide the North’s future if Stormont collapses again
Hilary Benn and Micheál Martin give speeches at British Irish Association conference in Oxford
‘The trajectory is very good’: can Simon Harris and Keir Starmer cleanse the Anglo-Irish palate?
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
Invest NI opens new Dublin hub to exploit North’s dual access to UK and EU markets
Republic is second largest source of foreign direct investment for Northern Ireland
Starmer and Macron discuss plans to reset UK relations with France and EU during Paris talks
PM’s meeting with French president follows recent visit to Germany where he said he was not ‘reversing Brexit’ amid plans for treaty
An Irishman in London celebrates the UK becoming a ‘nation once again’
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 Irish Times view on UK relations with the EU: a slow repairing of trust
The Labour government has a genuinely toxic inheritance from the Conservatives, politically, diplomatically and technically
Simon Coveney: ‘Theresa May’s efforts on the Irish question should be recognised. Her successors didn’t share that’
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
Keir Starmer agrees to visit Ireland after dining with Taoiseach at Chequers
British prime minister to visit on September 7th, the night of a football match in Dublin between the Republic of Ireland and Englan
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