French left agrees rare alliance deal to take on Macron

Move could threaten French president’s chances of securing National Assembly majority

Assembly election: Can those who don't vote Orange or Green transform the North?

Northern Ireland election on Thursday: Parties designated ‘other’ sense a chance to move past old divisions

North’s only ethnic minority election candidate finds region’s racism ‘scary’

Sipho Sibanda, originally from Zimbabwe, blames sectarian system for lack of diversity in politics

EU reform: End of veto among proposals to be considered

Conference on the Future of Europe’s 325 recommendations will now go to EU leaders

French in Ireland: ‘People voting for Le Pen maybe think Putin will prevent a war in France’

Sunday’s presidential election is weighing heavily on French natives in Cork

Real impact of NI Assembly elections to be on unionist morale

‘We now have a nationalism that is confident ... Sinn Féin can take Stormont’

Stormont political system ‘long overdue reform’, says North’s Green Party leader

‘Urgency of the climate crisis’ was ‘becoming more and more obvious’, warns Clare Bailey

The Irish Times view on Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Beyond the orange v green

Northern Ireland election: This could be the most important in a generation

If the polls are correct, a nationalist could head government in the North for first time

The Irish Times view on the turf sale ban: the right call

This decision was the correct one, but it underlines how important a just and careful transition is in moving to a carbon-neutral Ireland

Turf-cutting may have a romanticised image but the reality is very different

Decision to ban the commercial sale of turf is portrayed as an attack on rural Ireland and its way of life by middle-class city types

Ban on sale of turf would ‘devastate the poorest of people living alone’

In Kerry, the tradition of going to the bog is as deep as the layers of turf itself

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s French election defeat is starting to feel like a victory

Far-left party leader relishing the role of arbiter and kingmaker

Opinion poll: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael regain ground against Sinn Féin

Extended period of decline for FG in polls since formation of Coalition has abated

Macron and Le Pen hit campaign trail as run-off looms

President faces tricky act of wooing voters on right and left in France divided in three blocs

Taoiseach defends energy efficiency measures as part of cost of living response

Inflation forecast to hit 8.5 per cent in coming months, not encountered since 1980s

‘No impunity’ for Russia, says Coveney, as mass graves and bodies found on streets of Ukraine

Irish embassy in Moscow to be used to ‘express our outrage’ to Russia, Ryan says

Sinn Féin’s US politicking underlines issues with its approach to Irish unity

McDonald and co are presenting a united Ireland as imminent despite the evidence

Coalition gears up for next election after unprecedented challenges

Government parties remain broadly united despite a relentlessly bleak environment

Pierre Zakrzewski, my old classmate, was charismatic, selfless and loyal

Radio review: Tributes to the late Irish journalist had a personal resonance for Mick Heaney

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