A group of officials attending a meeting of the Congress of Vienna, in Austria. Photograph: De Agostini/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: Rise of Germany the great unintended consequence of Brexit

The British are creating in reality the thing they feared in their paranoid fantasies

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German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron in Brussels at the end of the EU summit focused on Brexit. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images Cliff Taylor: talk of just ‘getting on’ with Brexit is reaching danger levels
Dan Leavy returns to the Leinster team in Edinburgh this evening. Photograph: Inpho Dan Leavy returns for Leinster; Ireland ready for artificial bounce in Gibraltar
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern: on a different planet from Theresa May in terms of leadership style. Photograph: Mark Coote/Bloomberg Jacinda Ardern, Theresa May: Leadership styles from different planets
British prime minister Theresa May leaves after making a statement inside Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: EPA/CHRIS J. RATCLIFFE May looks to blame MPs for Brexit delay
Members of the Brehon Law Society marching in the St Patrick’s Day parade in New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters Sinn Féin’s Brit-bashing is damaging to political discourse
Last year’s Grand National winner Tiger Roll getting washed after morning work at Gordon Elliott’s yard. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Gordon D’Arcy brings hope to us all; Josh Cullen doesn’t want a Declan Rice saga
Ireland’s Jonathan Sexton dejected after defeat in Cardiff. ‘The frustrations are real. You can see it on senior players’ faces.’ Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Gordon D’Arcy: What happens in Six Nations is irrelevant come the World Cup
Ireland assistant coach Robbie Keane during training ahead of the Euro 2020 qualifiers with Gibraltar and Georgia. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Six Nations team of the tournament; McCarthy has big decisions to make
Whether you opt for an approved retirement fund (ARF) or an annuity might also be a factor of how much of a tax-free lump sum you can get Aged 50 or over? Consider your retirement fund options now
Peter Mark hair salon on Grafton Street celebrates the reduction of the VAT rate on hairdressing to 9% in 2011. Who paid for the increase in the 9% VAT rate? You did
It is hard to imagine how low cost flying would have grown so fast without Ryanair. Tastier crisps to cheaper flights: How the Irish became shorthand for consumer glory
You need to make time for a healthy sex life. Photograph: iStock My husband wants to schedule sex but this goes against my idea of fun and consent
Joe Schmidt has had six special years as Ireland coach in the Six Nations. Photo: Julian Finney/Getty Images No Ordinary Joe: Schmidt's remarkable Six Nations record
Sheridans: its counter at Dunnes' Cornelscourt supermarket was named best cheese shop in the UK and Ireland David McWilliams: Ireland’s Dunnes-loving, cheese-eating unsqueezed middle
Brexit battle: like English players at Wimbledon, Theresa May has been hyped up far beyond her merits and promoted to Centre Court. Photograph: Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Don’t even feel a bit sorry for Theresa May
A copy of the Saville Inquiry report into Bloody Sunday pictured in 2010. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire/File Hard to argue against Bloody Sunday decision taken by Public Prosecution Service
Jamie Codd celebrates Champion Bumper victory on Envoi Allen. Photograph: Paul Harding/PA Tadhg Beirne set for Ireland start, Champions League last-eight complete
‘The British government wants an amnesty for its former soldiers because pursuing them for Troubles-era crimes is politically unacceptable in Britain.’ Photograph: William L Rukeyser/Getty Images Newton Emerson: Both Britain and Sinn Féin want an amnesty for former soldiers and terrorists
British prime minister Theresa May in the House of Commons as MPs rejected her Brexit deal by 391 votes to 242. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire Brexit: Further twists expected after latest Commons defeat for May
Jamie Codd and Gordon Elliott at Cheltenham on Wednesday. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho D’Arcy on Ireland’s Cardiff mission, Day Two of Cheltenham goes ahead
“I lay wide-eyed in the darkness, contemplating the grim possibility of meeting her at breakfast, in her pyjamas.” File photograph: Getty Images Michael Harding: ‘What the f**k are you doing in bed?’ said the woman demanding champagne
British prime minister Theresa May arrives back at Downing Street in London after making a statement on Brexit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA Wire Brexit: EU’s ‘final offer’ to UK emerges after last-minute scramble
The introduction of Help To Buy and an overall rise in development means first-time buyers have more choice now than they would have had in the recent past, and bidding isn’t as frenzied What every first-time buyer needs to know before putting in a bid
A view of horses out on the gallops ahead of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival. Photo: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Gear up, it’s Cheltenham time; Schmidt looking to tick off one final box
Ireland were bonus point winners over France on Sunday afternoon at the Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Ireland blitz France; Luck will not always be on Solskjær’s side
Writer and philosopher Susan Sontag: her intellectualism was deeply rooted in an empathy that might well assist in moves towards Irish unity. Photograph: George Rose/Getty Una Mullally: Southern patriotic grandstanding must stop if we want a united Ireland
Assure your wife that you find her beautiful and are still attracted to her, and that you want to be more intimate with her. Photograph: iStock ‘My wife has not wanted sex for 10 years’
Germans celebrate as the Berlin Wall is opened in November 1989. Had you asked which countries would benefit most from the collapse of communism, Ireland wouldn’t have featured. Photograph: Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images David McWilliams: The fall of the Berlin Wall led to the rise of Ireland
Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump
The costs of renovating or extending a home have risen sharply in recent years. Photograph: Getty Nine ways to stop your renovation costs going through the roof
Rory McIlroy reacts to a putt on the 18th green during the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Florida. Photo: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Schmidt set to make changes for France; McCarthy believes in Ireland goal power
That responsibility for Northern Ireland has been left in the hands of Karen Bradley at this crucial moment is truly reckless. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Northern Secretary Karen Bradley should go after crass comments
Would a change to the rules which allows Irish banks to write-off tax against losses be shooting Irish taxpayers in the foot? Irish banks are back in profit – so why are they still not paying tax?
Leo Varadkar’s popularity has fallen by eight points in the latest Irish Times poll. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times. Irish Times poll brings bad news for three biggest parties
Former British prime minister Herbert Asquith wrote in 1914: ‘I have rarely felt more hopeless in any practical affair: an impasse with unspeakable consequences upon a matter which to English eyes seems inconceivably small and to Irish eyes immeasurably big. Isn’t it a real tragedy.’ File photograph: Edward Gooch/Getty Images Brexit talks contain uncanny echoes of events a century ago
Real Madrid’s Luka Modric after his team’s 4-1 defeat to Ajax. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters Real Madrid humiliated; Gordon D’Arcy on world rugby’s problems
Paul Murphy: ‘Are we guilty of not ‘telling the truth’ to the working class?’ Photogaph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Socialist Party: a not-so-united front?
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown library. In 2017, the library generated income of €103,083 from fines, down from €120,166 in 2016. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Economics and behaviour: what library fines tell us about ourselves
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Mark Durkan, the former SDLP leader who is now a Fine Gael candidate. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Leo the Green: Fine Gael looks to Northern nationalists
The Tottenham Hotspur team during a training session in Dortmund. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images Ireland need to follow England’s 2003 example; The Champions League returns tonight
A float depicting Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during the annual Rose Monday parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday. Photograph: Kirsten Neumann/EPA Fintan O’Toole: Shame on us for forcing children to wake us up to climate change
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi argues with Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos during the El Clásico match between the sides on Saturday night. Photo: Curto de la Torre/Getty Images Ken Early: VAR could further undermine soccer's integrity
You will always be able to find intellectual stimulation in the world around you, but you can’t substitute a great partner. Photograph: iStock ‘I’m worried that if I marry my boyfriend, I’ll miss being with someone smart’
“Charles O’Carroll-Kelly isn’t about to be silenced by a bunch of teenagers who’ve been brought up to believe that they don’t have to listen to the opinions of others!” The old man takes his truth bus to UCD’s snowflakes
Cranes in the Dublin skyline in the docklands area: Organised local opposition to major infrastructural initiatives retard economic growth and threaten Ireland’s future. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill David McWilliams: ‘Contented classes’ could be biggest threat to Irish economy
Michael Cohen listens as he finishes a day of testimony to the House Oversight Committee in Washington on Wednesday. If Cohen is a rat, Trump is the mafia boss who gets ratted on in the end. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP) Fintan O’Toole: The day ‘the Donald’ became forever ‘the Don’
Leinster are back in Pro14 action at the RDS tonight. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho Gerry Thornley on World League plans; Johnny Buckley cleared for club final
Average weekly earnings were €761.65 in the fourth quarter of last year Wages are finally on the rise, but who are the big winners?
What happened to Angela Kerins five years ago was nasty. The Supreme Court is set to declare it was unconstitutional. Photograph: Collins Courts Noel Whelan: PAC owes Angela Kerins an apology
Michael Cohen reacts while listening to the closing remarks before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Photograph: EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS A nasty New York breakup as Trump’s lawyer and fixer turns on him
Ashley Young celebrates Manchester United’s third against Crystal Palace. Photograph: Ian Walton/Reuters City and Liverpool both win, rotation key to Welsh Grand Slam hopes