Captives are unlikely to survive a further occupation or the annihilation of their brutal Hamas kidnappers

US president has convinced voters that they can reap the benefits of the global economy while building tariff drawbridges on that two-way street

According competence to the EU in relation to external migration and asylum seeking has turned out to be a disastrous error.

Planned demolition of the €200 million Derrybrien windfarm will lead to destruction of potential green energy source for 30,000 homes

Why can’t Sinn Féin spell out exactly what it means by a united Ireland and allow unionists to consider it?

US-Israeli long-term strategy flouts all notions of international law and amounts to a programme of war crimes

Broken system places further emphasis on State to focus on increasing supply

If the White House capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded

The Victorian model of having the legislature authorise major infrastructural development is the answer

I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property

Fundamental change is not merely possible or probable; it is becoming an existential necessity

Just as Trump folded his tent in the Doha discussions on Afghanistan and gave up threats to forcibly end North Korea’s missile programme, his boasts about doing deals look empty

Across the member states, there is growing recognition that the much-vaunted EU migration pact is too little and too late

Issue of migration – especially economic migration disguised as asylum-seeking – is a growing issue for the political viability of the EU

Constant headlines about housing schemes being struck down by councils, the planning board and the courts are chipping away at public confidence