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A coalition government is the likely outcome of Ireland’s general election, with Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. Carl Dinnen says voters have delivered a “fracturing of the Irish body politic”.
What if Ireland does vote No tomorrow? Enda Kenny repeated to me today that unlike the referendums on Nice and Lisbon, Irish voters won’t be given a second chance to change their minds.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has been given permission by the Tory Right to embrace a full blown transition period after Brexit.
Gary Gibbon
Team Trump told Theresa May when she was in the White House that they were about to ban refugees from coming to the US, using an Executive Order.
The Government rejects a demand from Sinn Fein for a referendum to be held on Irish unity in the wake of the UK vote to pull out of the EU.
Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn turned on the media at his speech in central London this morning when it was suggested it might be his fault that Labour supporters don’t know which way their party leadership is facing on Europe. The claim comes from the Remain campaign, supported by their own private polling and they express it with real concern.
Gary Gibbon
It is crunch time in Brussels as leaders and officials, who have barely seen a glimpse of their beds, carry on the final negotiations for Cameron’s much awaited deal on Europe
The country becomes the first in the world to introduce same-sex marriage after a national referendum, with 62 per cent voting yes.
Voters in the Republic of Ireland will take part in a historic vote next week allowing the public to decide if same sex marriage can be allowed in a traditionally Catholic country, Neil Markey writes.
A woman who suffered a blood clot is being kept on life support in Ireland against her family’s wishes because there is a chance her baby could survive.
Ireland has been rocked this week as another horrific scandal linked to the Catholic church emerges in Galway, where a mass grave with the bodies of 800 children was uncovered.
A son of IRA murder victim Jean McConville says Gerry Adams threatened him with a “backlash” if he released the names of those he believed were responsible.
Irish President Michael D Higgins begins a four-day state visit to the UK on Tuesday. Vinnie O’Dowd says it shows us how far Anglo-Irish relations have come.
Disputes over flags and parades in Northern Ireland proved too great for the country’s politicians who failed to agree a compromise on these and other outstanding issues from the peace process.
Ireland officially exits its strict bailout programme and re-enters money markets but the years of austerity budgets and unemployment are not over yet.