Irish politicians say Brexit report detailing hard Border ‘no surprise’ UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to talk to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar again this week. Photograph: Jon Super/Reuters.

Leaked documents detail UK’s three-month ‘meltdown’ in event of a no-deal Brexit

Sterling doesn’t have the comfort of the dollar’s reserve status. Nor the resilience of the US economy. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Chris Johns UK facing a future as a failed state in wake of Brexit
Ballybough assault: Pensioner critical with spinal and brain injuries Paddy Hansard suffered serious injuries in an assault early on Saturday morning at Courtney Place (above). File photograph: Google Street View

Arrested man has been released without charge and file is being prepared for DPP

Student who came to Ireland from Syria with little English gets 602 Leaving Cert points Nour Aljarad, who claimed asylum in Ireland in 2015 with her family, has secured a place to study dentistry at Trinity College in September.

Nour Aljarad has secured a place to study dentistry in Trinity College Dublin

Tipperary punish 14-man Kilkenny with devastating second-half showing Kilkenny’s Paul Murphy can’t stop Séamus Callanan of Tipperary scoring his side’s second goal during the All-Ireland hurling final at Croke Park. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Sending off of Richie Hogan before half-time proves key as Liam Sheedy’s side pile on the scores

Five people rescued from sea in two separate Kerry incidents Rescue 115 airlifted a man and two children to Tralee General Hospital for treatment after being swept out to sea at Derrynane, Co Kerry. File photograph: Irish Coast Guard/PA Wire

Man and two children swept to sea at Derrynane, two thrown from boat at Fenit Island

Lyra McKee: ‘Intensive’ inquiry into journalist’s murder continues Late journalist Lyra McKee, shot dead during disturbances in Creggan, Derry, in April of this year. File photograph: Jess Lowe/EPA

Dissident republican placards with death threats to police informers removed in Creggan

Malachy McCourt: ‘Frank wouldn’t be happy unless he was miserable’ Eoin Cannon as Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes The Musical.

Angela’s Ashes returns to Dublin in September. What’s it like to see your family’s story of growing up in poverty as a musical?

‘I’ve been having sex with a friend for a year, and I’ve started to have feelings’ “He is cheating on his partner, so he’s not trustworthy in terms of loyalty or fidelity. That he has a live-in partner also means that you cannot nor should not trust him to prioritise you in the way you want.” Photograph: iStock

Ask Roe: He has a partner. I know I’m going to get hurt but I don’t know how to end it

Thirty-five girls died in the 1943 fire. All the nuns survived The Irish Times article on April 28th, 1943.

From the Archive: ‘Little girls stood at the windows of the burning building crying to be taken out’

Keep the summer going:15 ways to lift your spirits Get out into the light and soak up some vitamin D which helps regulate the stress hormone. Photograph: Getty Images
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Daniel O’Connell, the greatest of all politicians Portrait of Daniel O’Connell. Photograph: Getty Images

Olivia O’Leary on the man who invented peaceful protest and raised Irish Catholics off their knees

A policeman tried to arrest a priest – the parishioners killed him Derrybeg Chapel and its priest in the foreground. By Robert French, from a catalogue dated between 1865 and 1914. Photograph: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

In 1889, a party of RIC officers attempted to detain a Catholic priest – charged with ‘conspiracy’ – at his chapel in Gweedore

Parents of Jack Downey (19) speak out about how drugs ‘destroyed’ their only child Jack Downey (19) from Clonmel, Co Tipperary, pictured with his mother Elaine. Photograph: Clonmel Óg Hurling and Football Facebook page.

‘People have to stand up and speak ... we are all too casual about what is going on among young people in Ireland’

Man who died after getting into difficulty swimming in Kilkee is named David Weldrick who died after getting into difficulty while swimming in Kilkee bay on Saturday. File photograph: Dave Gaynor

David Weldrick taught PE at Thomond College for decades

Government to consider law on right to switch off from work emails In 2017 the French government introduced an employment law which obliges organisations to guarantee their employees a right to disconnect from technology when they leave the workplace

Heather Humphreys says interdepartmental steering group will examine French approach to switching off

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