What I Read This Week: A vital read on the origins of the Troubles and Boris Johnson’s memoir flop
Reporter Ronan McGreevy picks his standout stories of the week including a pertinent piece on an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
Boris Johnson
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Joe Duffy’s Liveline can sound unmoored when not anchored by weighty subjects
RTÉ presenter hears rambling nostalgia and minor gripes, while Myles Dungan keeps history fresh
From almost drowning in Scotland to a bug in his toilet: four of the best moments from Boris Johnson’s book
Britain’s former prime minister has written a memoir, Unleashed, which will go on sale next week
Boris Johnson says Joe Biden told him his family origins ‘were not really Irish at all’
Former Tory PM makes claim about US president in new memoir, Unleashed, which also focuses on Brexit tensions over Irish Border
Boris Johnson interview cancelled after BBC presenter accidentally sends him notes
Laura Kuenssberg said she sent former UK prime minister the notes ‘in a message meant for my team’
Varadkar seems intent on ensuring Ireland continues to haunt Starmer’s Britain
If Keir Starmer wants to be remembered as a prime minister for the United Kingdom, not just England, he needs to address the question of a Border poll
TV guide: The best new shows to watch this week
Another series of At Your Service with John and Francis Brennan, Ben Dunne’s life story, the return of Industry and the 2 Johnnies are among this week's highlights
‘The whole thing was nuts’: Boris Johnson says he planned raid on Dutch factory to get Covid-19 vaccines
Deputy chief of defence staff told Johnson it would be possible but warned of diplomatic repercussions
Fifteen things to expect in Leo Varadkar’s autobiography
Former taoiseach to publish his memoirs next year in a publishing deal reportedly involving a six-figure sum
Simon Coveney: ‘Theresa May’s efforts on the Irish question should be recognised. Her successors didn’t share that’
The former tánaiste reflects on the ‘fun behind the craziness’ of Liz Truss, the ‘intellectual snobbery’ Enda Kenny faced, and Michel Barnier’s shock at the warm welcome he received on the streets of Dublin
British public let down by flawed planning for Covid pandemic, inquiry finds
‘Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering,’ says inquiry chair
Ambani wedding: Son of Asia’s richest man ties knot at star-studded celebration
Former British prime ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, John Cena, David Beckham and several Bollywood stars among those in attendance
Four-day Mumbai wedding extravaganza to cost more than €550m
The marriage of the son of Asia’s richest businessman, Mukesh Ambani, takes place over the weekend with guests including Kim Kardashian, Tony Blair and Mark Zuckerberg
All is changed, changed utterly: Starmer’s Downing Street reign presents chance to rebuild old ties
Raw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and Europe
Tories warn of Labour landslide in final day of UK election campaigning
Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday
The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024: 14 Wasted Years? A damning indictment of Tory rule
The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal
Brexit has been a disaster but Britain will not admit it
Self-inflicted economic, diplomatic and strategic damage will be blamed on Rishi Sunak by Tory media and not on Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or the Brexit-cheerleading media itself
Janan Ganesh: Macron’s election call is an act of cool logic
The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government
We don’t need to relate to politicians but they do need to know a Taylor Swift song
As Trump and Johnson show us, relatability is a juvenile value in politics, and a hollow aspiration
Tories’ greatest disservice to the UK has been to misunderstand the US
Americans are turning against trade, and the government should have anticipated it before Brexit
Theresa May muses on Liz Truss’s shelf life and Boris Johnson’s affairs as she nears the end of her time as an MP
The UK’s former prime minister effervescent at a lunch in Westminster this week
‘Britain needs a shake up’: UK economist from a Kilburn Irish family on banks, business and Boris
Gerard Lyons was once a contender for governor of the Bank of England. Now he wants it overhauled
Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott falls foul of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown council over Stepaside treehouse
Hardly a life-size Stonehenge replica á la Spinal Tap, is it?
Treatment of Liz Truss shows there is still a bias against middle-aged women
It is true she was a very bad prime minister. But it’s also true she was never given a proper try. She was too weird, maybe she didn’t have enough friends, her ideas were too radical
Did we catastrophise Brexit?
Four years on from UK’s official departure from the EU, the Irish economy is relatively untrammelled by the new arrangements
Will TikTok taoiseach Simon Harris succeed in his promise to fight populism?
Ireland is going through a period of transition. How Simon Harris navigates the role of Taoiseach will be a test of what the future holds
Britain’s narrow stereotype of the Irish could not make sense of Leo Varadkar
Tories had never seen a politician pursuing Ireland’s interest at Britain’s cost. No wonder they despised him
The deep problems facing Britain will continue to dog Labour
Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger
Leo Varadkar was subjected to sustained abuse in the UK during Brexit negotiations
Varadkar’s inability to develop a relationship with British prime minister Theresa May marked a low point
Many ‘patriots’ who wave the Irish flag do not respect the country
On this island, the Irish flag and the Union Jack will have to grow more comfortable in each other’s company
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
Fractured Union. Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK: far-seeing and compelling
Insightful analysis of uncertainty of United Kingdom’s future under the pressures of devolution, inequality, regional dissatisfaction and Brexit
We can thank Brexit for one thing: it’s a lesson in how to spot opportunists, liars and zealots
As immigration creeps up the opinion polls, we would do well to pay attention
Hide nothing, avoid ‘tittle tattle’ and focus on substance: what can Ireland learn from the UK’s ‘farcical’ Covid inquiry?
Ireland’s own inquiry into pandemic is already two years behind UK inquiry, which has been called ‘a spectacle of hysteria, name-calling and trivialities’
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