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Brexit
The latest news, award-winning analysis, and in-depth features on the UK's exit from the European Union
Stena Line to add second ship to Dublin-Liverpool freight route
Ferry company also defends decision to axe Rosslare-Cherbourg service earlier the year
Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines
UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’
Northern Ireland may be left in a migration limbo. That’s a problem for the Republic
The Windsor Framework is so badly designed the whole of Europe could tighten its immigration laws and Northern Ireland might still be blocked from doing likewise
Manufacturing in Northern Ireland definitely not a thing of the past
Nearly 100,000 people work in a sector critical to the North’s economic success
‘Significant uncertainty’: Vets in North worried at post-Brexit rule changes on medicines
Exemption allowing medicinal products to be supplied from Britain expires within weeks
The Irish Times view on the UK budget: the long shadow of Brexit
Nearly a decade after the referendum and five years after the UK’s exit from the EU, the economic and political price is all too clear
Brexit ‘tensions’ contributed to disconnect between London and Dublin’s Covid-19 responses
Report on second module of UK inquiry into pandemic strongly critical of Michelle O’Neill for attending IRA man’s funeral in June 2020
Plan for a united Ireland to avoid Brexit-style mess, says author from unionist background
Ben Collins favours Irish unity and encourages others of similar heritage to engage with subject
Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’
The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry
EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’
Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties
Continued skilled inward migration will be vital to our future
Our openness can be a strength and we need managed growth in labour force to remain competitive
Irish influence in the US is waning, says new report from influential think-tank
Policy Exchange, which has been criticised for failing to disclose its funders, releases report assessing State’s international status
Fine Gael should never again send a Protestant candidate into a sectarian storm
Presidential election: Never again should Fine Gael send a Protestant candidate out, unprepared, into a sectarian storm
Ireland is riding two horses galloping in different directions across the Atlantic
Nostalgia can not blind us to the new realities of the collapsing alliance between the US and Europe
If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound
There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England
Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame
Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK
Barry’s Tea, brack and quiet deals: the breakfasts where Europe’s leaders set the agenda
Ireland’s early morning pre-summit meeting with Nordic and Baltic States is now a fixture of Brussels diplomacy
Political Change Across Britain and Ireland - Identities, Institutions and Futures: Undoubtedly the UK is in trouble
Questions well posed here may be impossible to resolve, but they will consume the attention of a generation
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries: Clever but with shortcomings
This is a lively and at times bitingly funny attempt at summarising a broad field
Talks on food and meat sales between EU and UK could be completed ‘in less than a year’
It had been understood that they could take until 2027
Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister
Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool
Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty
The protagonist, a marvellous creation, is embedded in the affluent world of north Co Down – a Protestant world of generational wealth and no little ostentation
Ratifying the Mercosur deal is a no-brainer
Allegation that Mercosur might adversely affect beef farmers through falling prices is a scare story without real foundation
Diarmaid Ferriter on Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar: Jaunty but superficial and lazy at times
Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance
How the Nigel Farage factor could upend the Belfast Agreement
Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control
Outgoing British ambassador Paul Johnston appointed to lead Irish Universities Association
Johnston to leave the British diplomatic service to take up his new role
Burying the Enemy - The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars: A civilising veneer for savagery
A thoughtful book about unfortunate men and what their treatment says about British-German relations
Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’
Stephens talks about visiting his grandparents in Co Mayo, how Scotland will become independent before Northern Ireland joins the Republic and more
Nicola Sturgeon on Leo Varadkar’s shyness, Enda Kenny’s charm and Martin McGuinness’s bear hugs
The former Scottish National Party leader talks politics, life, love, pain and her new autobiography
Chance to end the scourge of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland cannot be lost again
London’s abdication of social and political responsibility has fuelled sense of loss in loyalist areas
There’s more to Irish history than eight centuries of British oppression and failed uprisings
Whether we’re moving towards a united Ireland or shared island, we need to face awkward questions about identity
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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