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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      OutlookFood security
      Lessons from Irish history on the consequences of ignoring the famine in Somalia

      Bob Geldof’s recent speech highlights the parallels between the ‘Forgotten Ones’ then and now

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Irish economy
      Tech sector tax windfall shores up Ireland’s economy against recession

      Pandemic-enhanced revenues from multinationals give Dublin more scope to mitigate the cost of living crisis

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      DUP refuses to return to power-sharing until new UK PM in office

      N Ireland political impasse over future of Brexit deal means no budget can be passed to help with cost of living crisis

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Ireland
      Battles ahead for AIB after tussle with Gaelic sports fans

      Irish bank’s plans to go cashless caused uproar in rural communities but it cannot ignore commercial realities

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Wife of Irish president stirs furore with call for Ukraine-Russia talks

      Anger that Sabina Higgins’s letter did not cast Moscow as aggressor in conflict

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
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      Hard-fought deal reached on cutting Irish farms’ greenhouse emissions

      Target of 25% is ‘massive, massive ask’, says key agriculture sector, though climate campaigners fear it is not enough

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
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      David Trimble: key architect of Good Friday Agreement dies

      Ulster Unionist leader won Nobel Peace Prize and served as Northern Ireland’s inaugural first minister

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
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      Low-cost carrier swings back to profit but says recovery is ‘fragile’

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Brexit
      UK ministers to tear up post-Brexit trade deal

      Tory leadership candidates show no sign of challenging plans to water down Northern Ireland protocol

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
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      Bookies’ top contender is a Remainer with Belfast experience

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
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      DPP decision leaves Leo Varadkar free to take over as taoiseach under coalition deal in December

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      Northern Irish businesses fear effects of rewriting Brexit trade deal

      Protocol that keeps region within EU’s single market for goods has given a fillip to its economy, say analysts

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
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      Ireland’s virtual archive shows cultural memory can be saved

      Historical treasures are often destroyed in conflict but a crusade has recreated Dublin’s records office

    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
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      UK proceeds with legislation to change Northern Ireland trading regime

      MPs will have first vote on bill to unilaterally tear up parts of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
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      Ireland’s AIB fined record €96.7mn over tracker mortgage scandal

      Country’s second-biggest lender failed to give customers access to cheap interest rates

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
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      Brexit bill spells uncertainty for Northern Irish dairy farmers

      Boris Johnson’s ‘dual regulatory framework’ threatens future of the biggest all-Ireland integrated industry

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
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      Liz Truss calls on DUP to ‘get on with it’ and resolve Northern Ireland political impasse

      UK foreign secretary makes appeal after government publishes legislation that would override Brexit deal with EU

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
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      Johnson pushes ahead with UK law to rip up N Ireland protocol

      EU threatens legal action and US urges negotiations as PM claims ‘no other way’ to protect peace process

    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
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      Tory MPs attack Johnson over plan to rip up N Ireland Brexit deal

      Legislation giving ministers sweeping powers faces opposition from backbenchers, peers and business

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    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
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      Johnson faces Eurosceptic revolt over Northern Ireland protocol bill

      Pro-Brexit ERG warns it could vote legislation down if it does not meet group’s demands

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
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      Johnson presses EU on overhaul of Northern Ireland trading regime

      Prime minister says Brussels must ‘get rid of pointless and bureaucratic’ checks on goods

    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      DUP again blocks appointment of Northern Ireland assembly speaker

      Jeffrey Donaldson demands ‘decisive’ changes to region’s post-Brexit trading arrangements to end stalemate

    • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
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      Marching season sets up a flash point that could further fuel divisions

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      Stormont to be recalled in effort to end Northern Ireland political paralysis

      US delegation fails to defuse tensions triggered by dispute over post-Brexit trading relations

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