Irish beef: selling 260,000 tonnes of Irish beef into the rest of Europe will damage the EU market. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg What is Irish farming's beef with looming Brexit?

Selling meat into the United Kingdom is already a tough business. Brexit will make it tougher

Micheal Martin overstretched himself in disparagingly referring to Máire Whelan’s competence. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Mercury rises in Leinster House
Throwaway returns to the winner’s enclosure after winning the Gold Cup at Ascot in 1904 Racy Literature – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, adultery, and the Ascot Gold Cup
Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar with new Ministers of State. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times A dose of the backbench blues
A Barclays branch being renovated in London, June 20th, 2017. Four of the most senior former executives at Barclays - and Barclays itself - have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in relation to the 2008 credit crunch fund-raising that allowed the bank to avoid having to succumb to a government bailout. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg Barclays bankers facing fraud charges were among best paid
Leo Varadkar: A “thrill” to visit Number 10 for the first time. Photograph: EPA/SIMON DAWSON ‘Love Actually’ Leo hits cringey note at Downing Street
Claims of unrest within the Lions squad will only unite them further. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Reading between the Lions, this remains a squad united
One of the Borough Market attackers: Governments in the Middle East and North Africa must engage the conservative Muslim clerics within their own borders – the individuals responsible for filling young people’s heads with hatred. Photograph: Gabriele Sciotto/AP Middle East and African states must help Europe fight terror
Kenneth O’Brien: his torso was found in a suitcase by walkers at the Grand Canal near Celbridge, Co Kildare Rare cases in recent years of bodies dismembered in Ireland
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: Will he rescind Máire Whelan’s appointment and reopen the process? Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Máire Whelan appointment is Taoiseach’s first problem
Cian Healy during Ireland training in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Bracing Japanese challenge takes Ireland out of comfort zone
Leo Varadkar after he was elected Taoiseach on Wednesday, at Leinster House. Photograph: Collins Photos Can Leo Varadkar actually seize his opportunity?
DUP leader Arlene Foster, signs a book of condolence for Martin McGuinness. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Hysterical reaction of British left to DUP is simplistic and naive
Enda Kenny arrives at Government Buildings, Dublin, for his last day as Taoiseach. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire All eyes on Varadkar’s Cabinet as Kenny says goodbye
DUP leader Arlene Foster and British prime minister Theresa May: “The biggest problem with the DUP’s insistence that Northern Ireland must not have special status is that it already does.” Photograph: Charles McQuillan/PA Wire Fintan O’Toole: Theresa May faces Irish obstacle on the Brexit tracks
Protesters march against the Conservative alliance with the DUP over the weekend. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images A DUP-Tory alliance could make unionism unacceptable
The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, the US. The Other Western Front – An Irishman’s Diary about the Butte mining disaster of 1917
“One thing Leo Varadkar needs to beware of is pandering too much to the impatient younger TDs clamouring for promotion.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne Stephen Collins: Varadkar cannot afford to drop veterans
I saw the Skelligs on the horizon, where a monastery of hermetic monks survived for over 500 years. Photograph: Getty images Michael Harding on a happy fortnight of Cill Rialaig calm
Gender identities: “As a woman on the left, I often experience aggression when I disagree with a man.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien ‘You say identity politics. I say intersectionality. Can’t we get along?’
Theresa May at Downing Street as she prepares to deliver a statement on Saturday night’s attack in London. Photograph: EPA/Will Oliver Theresa May’s decision to politicise London attack not without risk
Elizabeth and Andy Parsons, parents of Julie Parsons, on their wedding day in 1945. The lost Protestants of ‘Kingstown’
This week alone, there was yet another damning report from Geoffrey Shannon pointing towards a systemically flawed after-hours service for vulnerable children Breda O’Brien: Shiny, secular Ireland still fails children
The Conservatives have depicted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as odd and dysfunctional. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Noel Whelan: Conservatives underestimated Corbyn and Labour
Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, one of the Eniac programmers Female wartime ‘computers’ would be aghast at pay gap
Taoiseach Enda Kenny might think he was thrown under the bus, but he wasn’t. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Miriam Lord: Opposition easy on Enda preparing to get off bus
Sisters of Charity say they will have ‘no involvement in this new company’. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire The Sisters of Charity do the charitable thing
Conor Murray makes a break during the Guinness Pro 12 final against Scarlets at the Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Judge Munster after third season
Cannizzaro hospital in Catania, Sicily. Valentina Miluzzo was denied a termination at the facility last year and died, despite abortion being legal in Italy for 40 years. Italy offers a warning for new maternity hospital
Charlotte Campbell, mother of Manchester Arena attack victim Olivia Campbell, and stepfather Paul Hodgson pay their respect in St Ann’s Square for the victims in central Manchester. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Manchester attack reveals a new terror
Hilary Fannin: ‘Memory cannot be abolished in a referendum’
Leo Varadkar: poised to take the crown. Photograph: Naoise Culhane Kickback against Fine Gael’s ‘avocado mash coronation’
UK Labour Party leader: Anti-imperialist, anti-racist analysis is the bedrock of the British far-left’s worldview. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Newton Emerson: Corbyn’s view of North stuck in a time warp
’Taoiseach Enda Kenny has done his time.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times Miriam Lord: Enda Kenny conducts a passing-out ceremony
We love Manchester: terrorists will continue to find new means and new targets and to generate new levels of outrage. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters After the atrocity: political lessons from Manchester
Protecting your nest-egg can be hard work. Getty Images The pension conundrum: Question is – to transfer or not
Ched Evans playing for Chesterfield in February. Photograph: Pete Norton/Getty Images Ched Evans’s comments about consent show he has a lot to learn
Bono: ‘These songs don’t belong to us anymore. They belong to the people who went through stuff when they heard them first.’ Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Bono: ‘I don’t want to meet Donald Trump’
Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney: both leadership candidates will now get to show their mettle. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill Battle begins for Enda’s crown
Enda Kenny: his public image never reflected his success at home or abroad, and that proved fatal to his first government’s prospects of winning a second term Stephen Collins: Enda Kenny underestimated throughout his career
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is due to make an announcement about his departure. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Duelling banjos at the ready as Enda promises ‘Deliverance’
Cairn Homes’s bulging war chest is potentially good news for RTÉ, which is seeking to sell 8.64 acres of surplus land at its Montrose complex in Donnybrook. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Government vision needed to solve housing crisis
Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times Enda Kenny holds centre stage in political theatre
Parents For Choice organises a march against religious ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Who can be trusted to provide services respecting women’s human rights?
Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar: detached and dismissive. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Varadkar browbeats us all on welfare problems
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: It’s like if Tarantino directed Wind in the Willows
Trinity College Dublin: O’Malley’s plan, announced in 1967, to merge UCD and TCD was defeated. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Diarmaid Ferriter: So, what is a university for?
Fine Gael’s Frances Fitzgerald, Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar: party leadership contests are personality contests rather than competitions about policy. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Noel Whelan: Fine Gael leadership campaign will be an emotional family affair
Taoiseach Enda Kenny: May keep the leadership pretenders waiting a little longer Enda to talk leadership (again)
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams. ‘Sinn Féin is so focused on getting into office in Dublin that the party may even retire its leader at Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil’s behest.’ Photograph: Stephen Hamilton/Press Eye Newton Emerson: Dublin parties can resurrect Stormont
The Minister for Justice supports Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan, but support has ebbed away from every other party Nóirín O’Sullivan faces further controversy
Rassie Erasmus: ‘The performances they [Ospreys] have delivered this year at some stages were phenomenal – they were on fire.’ Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Rassie Erasmus wary of Ospreys’ capabilities
The leadership campaign is under way even if Enda Kenny refuses to accept it. Photograph: Reuters/Christinne Muschi Enda Kenny: Going, going, not gone . . .