De Gaulle
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Brexit: UK seeks postponement of backstop discussion until December 2020
- UK
- September 19, 2019, 12:35
The UK has again demanded that talks on guaranteeing a soft Northern Ireland border be postponed until the end of the withdrawal transition period. A(...)

When Charles de Gaulle came to Ireland for six weeks
- Irish News
- June 13, 2019, 01:00
Fifty years before Donald Trump’s trip, another globally recognised politician came to Ireland on a private visit that turned out to be far from priva(...)

DS 7: Stylish French model made for the catwalk not Irish roads
- Motors
- February 27, 2019, 07:15
First impressions are lasting, but second impressions stick. That’s as true about cars as it is about people. For a relatively new entrant into the pr(...)

Star Capital to buy Irish airline ASL for more than €200m
- Transport & Tourism
- February 13, 2019, 20:34
European investor Star Capital is buying Irish airline ASL Aviation Holdings in a deal said to be worth more than €200 million. Swords, Co Dublin-bas(...)

Samuel Beckett rejected as unsuitable for the Nobel prize in 1968
- Culture
- January 11, 2019, 06:00
Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, but newly released archives reveal that just a year earlier, the secretive committee that se(...)

UK has two options: a people’s vote or Liechtenstein Plus
- Opinion
- December 11, 2018, 06:00
Liechtenstein! As in the mountaintop microstate of 37,877 people. To appreciate the state that the whole Brexit project is likely to arrive at in(...)

Mussolini spinning in his grave at Italy’s reckless nationalists
- Europe
- November 15, 2018, 01:00
Writing of Benito Mussolini’s brand of now-reviving nationalism, the Italian political scientist Alberto Mingardi makes a telling, and not very flatte(...)

Irexit party founder says ‘dung’ from EU ‘will help us grow’
- Irish News
- September 8, 2018, 01:00
Is the time right for an anti-European Union party to enter the Irish political landscape? Time will tell but the decision to launch “Irexit Freedom”(...)

Seán Lemass tapes: Britain sought to ‘destroy’ Common Market
- Irish News
- June 2, 2018, 00:00
Harold MacMillan and the United Kingdom’s EEC membership “I do not think that either MacMillan or any member of the British government ever fully und(...)

Dunkirk reveals the spirit that has driven Brexit : humiliation
- Opinion
- July 26, 2017, 11:02
It would be consistent with a certain kind of Britishness for the nation to ruin itself through sheer embarrassment. Having gone to the trouble of vot(...)