The Irish Times

Newton Emerson: Ireland, North and South, will miss Phil Hogan’s voice on Brexit

EU trade commissioner had shown he was able to see the issue on an Irish and British scale

Thu Aug 27 2020 - 00:00

Markets take fright as Boris Johnson opens door to hard Brexit

Sterling erases all gains since election exit poll and UK-focused stocks fall

Tue Dec 17 2019 - 12:23

EU ambassadors expected to begin process for three-month Brexit extension

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has been asked to continue to oversee evolving EU/UK relationship after Brexit

Thu Oct 24 2019 - 21:26

David McWilliams: If Boris Johnson is the answer, what is the question?

The next stage of Brexit will pit the Oxford Union posh boys against the Bruges eurocrats

Sat Jul 06 2019 - 06:00

EU on no-deal Brexit vote: ‘Like Titanic voting for the iceberg to move’

Brussels spokesman offers withering assessment of MPs’ decision on Wednesday night

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 12:51

May accepts EU’s backstop assurances ahead of key Brexit vote

Agreement reached after last-minute talks in Strasbourg before Commons vote on Tuesday

Mon Mar 11 2019 - 23:13

UK looking for alternatives to Border backstop. Do they exist?

UK government establishes special group to look at alternatives to proposed backstop

Mon Feb 04 2019 - 14:18

Apple numbers, Brexit battles and the banker whose job fell through

Planet Business: Some companies are enjoying a quarterly earnings mic drop

Fri Feb 01 2019 - 05:24

May to seek backstop replacement to avoid hard border

Logjam continues as Conservative Brexiteers say latest proposal does not go far enough

Tue Jan 29 2019 - 01:00

Dublin’s discipline on backstop wobbles as strain starts to tell

Gaffes creep in as realisation dawns that Ireland may soon face uncomfortable choice

Tue Jan 29 2019 - 01:00

Brexit deal commits UK to indefinite stay in customs union

Analysis: Negotiators tacitly accept that customs union will form basis of future EU relationship

Wed Nov 14 2018 - 14:43

Clock is ticking for Theresa May and Brexit backstop

If there is no breakthrough by Wednesday evening a deal will have to wait until December 13th

Mon Nov 12 2018 - 20:42

Coveney says backstop that can be ended unilaterally by Britain is not a backstop

May’s spokesman declines to say if Britain is seeking a system of third-party arbitration to determine when the backstop should end

Tue Nov 06 2018 - 01:00

Simon Coveney rejects Brexit secretary’s backstop proposal

Tánaiste says a time-limited arrangement would not be ‘a backstop at all’

Mon Nov 05 2018 - 16:00

Backstop agreement may be close but Brexit deal is far from certain

British and EU negotiators prepared to re-enter ‘tunnel’ amid talk of legal ‘bridge’

Sun Nov 04 2018 - 17:00

If there is a Brexit deal this is what it will look like

Deal would see EU writing the outline of a bare-bones customs union covering all the UK

Sat Nov 03 2018 - 06:00

Brexit plans could see UK tied to EU rules well beyond end of 2020

Secret plans designed to convince Foster that backstop will not come into force

Sat Oct 13 2018 - 15:10

British and EU Brexit negotiators in weekend talks to firm up backstop text

Proposals for ‘time-limited’ backstop and temporary customs deal latest sticking point

Fri Oct 12 2018 - 20:34

DUP delegation reiterates stance to EU negotiators in Brussels

Foster says party rejects any barrier to trade between Northern Ireland and Britain

Tue Oct 09 2018 - 15:27

Five things you need to know about why the Irish Border is blocking a Brexit deal

Smart Money: Everything you wanted to know about the Border question, but were afraid to ask

Thu Sept 20 2018 - 09:47

Border question threatens to derail Britain’s Brexit strategy

EU’s rejection of UK’s proposals for the North puts pressure on the timeline for a deal

Fri Apr 20 2018 - 19:18

Britain urged to come up with a fresh Brexit Border plan

Sources say the UK’s latest proposals on the issue are similar to already-rejected plans

Thu Apr 05 2018 - 19:49

David Davis: Bullish wheel-greaser or Brexit fall guy?

Has the barroom bonhomie left the UK’s negotiating position weaker than it should have been?

Tue Feb 20 2018 - 10:30

How Brexit nightmare before Christmas was ended

After Monday’s debacle, Friday’s breakthrough on Border brought welcome cheer

Sat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00

EU tells UK to get ‘serious’ as Brexit talks resume

The ‘sooner we remove ambiguity’ the better, Michel Barnier tells David Davis

Mon Aug 28 2017 - 15:33

British to appeal for EU flexibility as frosty Brexit talks restart

Latest round of Brexit negotiations between UK and EU begins on Monday

Sat Aug 26 2017 - 01:00

EU will not discuss Border proposals at Brexit talks

British government’s customs plans ‘are not on the agenda’ for next week’s negotiations

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 01:00

This week’s Brexit talks devoid of political grandstanding

Six-a-side Irish talks opened on Tuesday under watchful eye of Irish Embassy

Fri Jul 21 2017 - 05:16

EU and UK ‘singing off same hymn sheet’ on Northern Ireland

Brexit talks making progress on travel rules but split on citizens’ rights and divorce bill

Thu Jul 20 2017 - 01:00

EU talks divided over Britain’s Brexit divorce bill mooted at €75bn

Negotiators also discussed Northern Ireland for several hours on Tuesday morning

Wed Jul 19 2017 - 00:21

EU calls on UK to get its act together and set out Brexit stance

Michel Barnier reacts to Boris Johnson jibe, saying ‘no whistling, just a clock ticking’

Wed Jul 12 2017 - 18:10

Brexit will force creative thinking on status of North

Hard or soft? Complex Ireland question is the opportunity for a less binary approach

Sat Jun 24 2017 - 05:00

Brexit remorse, Leo’s jacket and the wisdom of David Davis

Planet Brexit: the week in Britain’s economic self-sabotage

Fri Jun 23 2017 - 06:30

Brexit Border talks complicated by delay in resumption of Northern Executive

EU and Irish sources say discussions on politically sensitive elements of the brief inopportune

Thu Jun 22 2017 - 15:26