Those who threaten to invoke Article 16 will be given pause for thought if the ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK is perceived to be at risk

The Alliance Party, which represents a growing cohort of voters who are neither unionist nor nationalist, could find itself in second place after the Northern elections next May. Its leader, Naomi Long, says change is coming

Even if the British government backs down on its threat to ditch the protocol, prospects for a calming of tensions in Northern Ireland are bleak

Crispin Odey, a Harrow and Oxford-educated hedge fund manager, has hurled large sums of money at numerous Brexit and eurosceptic organisations as well as the Tory party and the Christian Party: Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship. However, his investments have suffered some major blow-outs and, in March this year, he found himself in court where he was acquitted of indecently assaulting a woman in 1998

The Minister for Foreign Affairs says the EU has been compromising for six to eight months now on multiple areas, but the British government has taken those compromises, banked them, and asked for more

Notwithstanding the bluster, the current fishing rights row is small potatoes next to the tensions that will arise between Britain and France when checks on imports are imposed at Dover

The ESRI will tell Oireachtas committee that imports moving south of the border have risen by 90 per cent due to the withdrawal of Britain from the EU

The director of Brexit readiness at the Department of Foreign Affairs has said that the triggering of Article 16 would be the beginning of lengthy arbitration process

The British government’s brinkmanship in the wake of Brexit, including threats to trigger Article 16, has raised the stakes dramatically on the Northern Ireland protocol, but it is unclear whether there is substance to the sabre-rattling

In response to unionist wailing, Boris Johnson and David Frost are making vindictive demands that they know can’t be met

Seeking an end to the current Stormont power-sharing arrangement would surely backfire, and the unionist demand that the protocol must go could ultimately destroy the union

The new proposals are practical and show Europe’s willingness to do a deal, but Boris Johnson has little incentive to solve the impasse and move on

Taoiseach welcomes package and calls on British government and EU to enter ‘serious engagement’

Briefings from David Frost to media were an attempt to derail the publication of ‘comprehensive’ new EU proposals on the protocol due this week, according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs

The embattled DUP leader is in dire need of a win, but his entente cordiale with Jim Allister’s hardline Traditional Unionist Voice is recklessly ill-advised

The new plans would reduce by half the number of goods requiring checks when moving from Britain to Northern Ireland

The British Prime Minister’s pledge to create a ‘high wage, high skilled economy’ ignores the many chaotic elements of the post-Brexit reality he helped to bring about

Growth in cross-border trade comes as a result of the Northern Ireland protocol and ‘weakens the links’ between the North and Britain, according to David Frost

With supplies being disrupted, long queues at the petrol pumps and warnings of a difficult Christmas, the public mood in Britain is turning sour as the full extent of Brexit’s huge repercussions become apparent. What is going on, and could similar scenes be witnessed in Ireland?

Sean Coyle, chief executive of Origin, said the effect of gas hikes on production costs were being passed on to farmers and the food supply-chain