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Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour
- Opinion
- February 19, 2019, 05:00
When all of this is done – if indeed it ever is done – a question will puzzle historians. How did absurd characters like Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mog(...)

May to ask MPs for more time to secure Brexit backstop changes
- UK
- February 11, 2019, 20:48
Theresa May hopes to convince the House of Commons on Tuesday to give her another fortnight’s grace to keep pushing for changes to the Irish backstop (...)

Boris Johnson gets €1,000 per minute for Dublin speech
- Economy
- February 6, 2019, 19:23
British politician Boris Johnson, the Tory arch-Brexiteer and former UK foreign secretary, was paid more than €1,000 per minute for his speech last mo(...)

Brexit: An idiot's guide to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union
- Politics
- February 4, 2019, 14:15
From Bino to Remoaner, we give you the essential tools to hold a Brexit pub conversation As the deadline for Brexit approaches and the talking g(...)

Plan B: Brexiteers look for a back door around the backstop
- UK
- February 2, 2019, 19:31
Evangelists for a no-deal Brexit haven’t given up. On the contrary, they have been emboldened by this week’s vote in parliament, by polls showing sup(...)

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attendance at DUP fundraiser queried by his party
- Politics
- February 1, 2019, 16:27
Northern Ireland Conservatives have questioned why Jacob Rees-Mogg addressed a DUP fundraiser, despite having never attended any of his own party’s ev(...)

Malachy Clerkin: Can Ireland backstop the Brexit boys at the Aviva?
- International
- February 1, 2019, 14:53
Here we go, then. The Brexiters against The Backstoppers. Of all weeks, this seems to be a balefully apt time to be welcoming the England rugby team a(...)

PwC paid David Davis more than €18,000 for Dublin speech
- Financial Services
- January 24, 2019, 12:17
PwC Ireland paid UK MP David Davis £16,000 (€18,378) plus VAT for a speech he gave in Dublin on November 21st last year. Mr Davis was speaking at th(...)

Seán Moncrieff: Welcome to the death of satire
- People
- January 19, 2019, 06:00
Back in the year 2000 – a far more innocent time – an episode of The Simpsons projected a future where Lisa Simpson becomes the US president. On her f(...)

German MP says Border controls in Ireland inevitable in event of no-deal Brexit
- UK
- January 18, 2019, 19:58
Border controls in Ireland are inevitable in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the chair of the German parliament’s EU affairs committee has said. Gunth(...)