Jacob Rees-Mogg is hardly driven by a passion for Northern Ireland's welfare. His business is to position himself as the man with the answers, the man who has done the work, the man who will not sell out to the EU

The Novichok story will evaporate by the weekend and Theresa May will be back in the wretched Brexit trench

Let’s be practical: romantic Irish notions of cailíns at the crossroads, donkeys in every field and a post office in every village do not exist, because we no longer live our lives in this way

The EU's chief negotiator is sick and tired of the shambolic negotiations being advanced by the Brexit team and has put his foot down – even insisting on increased contact time between negotiators

As Ireland prepares for a visit from Pope Francis, Susan O'Keefe

If Ian Paisley Junior is rejected by Recall, there is nothing to stop him standing once again for his own ‘vacant seat’. Indeed, he has already said he will stand in such a by-election

Why is it that the highest office in the land can produce such an unseemly response, a kind of sensationalism that would barely be appropriate for a beauty contest, let alone Uachtarán na hÉireann?

The work of ‘section 39’ workers, who provide a vast array of services in the community and to people with disability, mental health challenges and patients in hospices, is often ignored or overlooked in the general conversation about the health service

Understanding what just happened in the last few days in Britain must mean that those who want to help create a meaningful Electoral Commission here are then able to build a tighter and more efficient rule book for Ireland’s version

Not only can Theresa May not morph into Gareth Southgate; she can’t even shelter under the glow of his World Cup trophy

Theresa May has backed herself into this corner by promising weeks ago that the weekend Brexit lock-in would be productive and useful

In the madness that is Brexit now, the idea of returning to the people to ask whether they still want to leave, given all the obstacles that have now emerged, has been ruled out as a sign of weakness and a failure of democracy

Priests and bishops know that many of those who regularly attend in their churches put an X by the word ‘Yes’, disregarding everything said at the many pulpits across the land during the campaign

There has been an outpouring of extraordinary stories from women who had sought terminations for crisis pregnancies where their mental health was at risk, writes Susan O'Keeffe

A report by Transparency International Ireland shows that there is a lack of urgency among local authorities about systems to account for the spending of substantial sums of taxpayers’ money

The bigger question raised by Google and Facebook centres on the notion that we can run any referendum free of the influence of organisations or individuals outside the state

For the last seven days, the country has watched the unravelling of what appeared to be one of the good pieces of the Irish public health system

What was more interesting than the Brexit Secretary's speedy inspection of the border was the deliberate decision to ensure a complete media blackout for the trip

While the Facebook chief sat through hours of questioning over two days, the share price of his great invention was soaring, making investors happy and adding to his own personal net worth

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