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Amber Rudd speaks to the media outside the House of Commons. File photograph: Andy Rain/ EPA
Brexit: Tory minister says there is ‘plausible argument’ for second referendum
  • UK
  • December 20, 2018, 10:01

There is a “plausible argument” for the public to be asked to vote again on Brexit if MPs remain deadlocked, a British cabinet minister has said. Amb(...)

Drogheda, County Louth has a huge amount going for it – and has superb value across all levels of the market. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Priced out of Dublin? Consider buying in Drogheda instead

Drogheda is underrated. While Meath, Kildare and Wicklow garner more attention in the residential-commuter property-market, Louth goes under the radar(...)

Shay Walsh, managing director BT Ireland (left) and Richard Bruton, Minister for Education (right) with Overall BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year 2017 Shane Curran from Terenure College with his project qCrypt: The quantum-secure, encrypted, data storage solution with multijurisdictional quorum sharding technology in the Technology section, at the 2017 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Young Scientist: Terenure College student (16) wins for data project

A Dublin student has been named the 2017 BT Young Scientist of the Year for his project on protecting sensitive data. Shane Curran’s “qCrypt” system(...)

Former chief executive of oil and gas company Petroceltic Brian O’Cathain. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Business 2016: The winners and losers

Winners Patrick and John Collison, Stripe It has been a very good year for Limerick brothers and Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison. The two (...)

Raising the bar: Publicans David O’Grady, Deirdre Devitt and Gary Pepper, at Devitt’s pub, The Two Sisters, in Terenure, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
‘The Irish pub is a status symbol. With unrest in the world, everything Irish is seen as safe’

‘Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub,” mused Leopold Bloom on an early summer’s day in 1904 but, more than a century later, a bet(...)

The Clondalkin Youth Band taking part in the 45th International Band Championship in Limerick on Sunday. Photograph: Sean Curtin/Fusionshooters
Mississippi band overall winners at Limerick parade

More than 40,000 people gathered in Limerick on Sunday for the International Band Parade, which saw musicians from across the world perform on the st(...)

Winners of the best international band, the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School Marching Colonials from Massachusettes, USA. Photograph: Alan Place/FusionShooters.
40,000 line streets of Limerick for international band parade

With the theme music from hit movies like Superman and James Bond and even an appearance by ‘Jaws’ the killer shark, there was plenty to keep s(...)

Anger management: Grant’s great songs in the key of real life

You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs (as the song goes), but in fact the opposite – the anti-love song – is desperatel(...)

Graham Norton officially opened the Graham Norton Riverwalk in his hometown of Bandon, Co. Cork today.
Graham Norton opens river walk in his name in home town of Bandon

Ireland’s greatest export is its people and The Gathering should remind those who have left that it is always possible to come home, said TV chat show(...)