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Former EU chief questions merits of delaying Brexit without deal
- Politics
- March 1, 2019, 17:04
The only way out of the contentious Northern Ireland backstop is for the UK to opt for a much softer Brexit, former European Commission secretary gene(...)

MacGill Summer School: Will the gender blindness never end?
- People
- June 20, 2018, 13:10
The theme of this year’s MacGill Summer School is “the future of Ireland in a new Europe. ” Women, you might be forgiven for thinking, will play a sig(...)

Maynooth University cancels students’ visit to Leuven institute
- Irish News
- February 19, 2018, 01:00
Maynooth University has cancelled a visit by some of its students to the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe because of concerns over governance at(...)

Irexit: Could it be Ireland’s next big political movement?
- Politics
- February 10, 2018
Flames of populism may have ignited the political infernos of Donald Trump and Brexit in 2016 and sparked growing Euroscepticism across Europe, but in(...)

Greater military co-operation under Pesco presents range of costs
- Irish News
- November 14, 2017, 18:02
Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has worked for the last year with EU states on plans to deepen EU co-operation in secur(...)

Home Office’s lack of action on post-Brexit Border ‘is shocking’
- Politics
- July 28, 2017, 01:00
Britain’s Home Office, the government department responsible for border control and immigration, has admitted it has not consulted any external expert(...)

Why Irish security forces would struggle in a terror attack
- Irish News
- June 10, 2017, 01:00
Since the Manchester Arena and London Bridge attacks, Irish intelligence experts have ruminated on Ireland’s ability both to predict and to handle suc(...)

World View: Nations and their nuclear motivations
- Middle East
- October 13, 2013, 00:00
It is quite an experience to listen to an Israeli, an Iranian, an Egyptian and a Finn discuss nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament efforts in the(...)