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Why do British people know so little about Ireland?

Britain / 25 Feb

"The idea that Brexit may mark the birth of a federal tradition on the island of Britain may appear fanciful. But then, Brexit appeared rather fanciful just a few years ago"

What will Britain look like 50 years after Brexit?

Brexit / 27 Jan

"To paraphrase Star Trek's Spock, trade will continue but not as we know it after Brexit."

How supply chains and logistics get goods from A to B

Brexit / 24 Jan

"Brexit is not simply about the technicalities of the UK exit from the EU and it has also stirred discussion of constitutional change"

Why Ireland's general election is important for the UK's future

Election 2020 / 20 Jan

"Tour dates get missed, gear gets impounded, insurance becomes invalid and the administrative costs escalate. For many smaller acts, it's just not worth it". Photo: Mick Hutson/Redferns via Getty Images

Does Brexit mean trouble for live music and touring bands?

Brexit / 06 Jan

It's Brexit Wot Won It

How Brexit has transformed the UK political landscape

Brexit / 13 Dec 19

Can he fix it? Boris Johnson does his best Bob the Builder impersonation on the UK election campaign trail.

Get Brexit done? It's really not as simple as that

UK Election 2019 / 11 Dec 19

No-one is leaving until Tony Connelly gets here

How to unlock the Brexit conundrum

Brexit / 16 Oct 19

Full speed ahead: "Northern Ireland's continuing membership of the UK requires democratic interrogation"

How Northern Ireland could work its way back to EU after Brexit

Brexit / 14 Oct 19

You may capture the eagle, but you cannot clip its wings

Does Boris Johnson have a "cunning plan"?

Brexit / 09 Oct 19

"In liquid modernity, we must be careful what we wish for"

Brexit, Orwell's 1984 and living in liquid modernity

Brexit / 28 Sep 19

"The prime minister has created a win-win situation that nobody seems to have noticed"

Why Boris Johnson could turn this latest defeat into victory

Brexit / 24 Sep 19

German chancellor Angela Merkel: "I lived behind the Iron Curtain so I know only too well what it means once borders vanish"

The view from Germany on Brexit

Brexit / 13 Sep 19

Boris Johnson attempts to conduct the media orchestra at yesterday's meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin

What could Boris Johnson learn from an orchestra conductor?

Politics / 10 Sep 19

Protestors in Hong Kong in July 2019

Will Brexit Britain stand up for Hong Kong?

Hong Kong / 09 Sep 19

A day out at an Ulster final in Clones could be a lot different after Brexit.

Match off due to Brexit: the GAA and the return of a border

GAA / 01 Oct 19

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar outside Leinster House: "interviewees across these reports regardless of income and occupation have expressed no desire for more cash, but rather better public services and the security they represent"

The urgent issues beyond Brexit, Boris and the backstop

Ireland / 26 Aug 19

James Joyce: portrait of the artist as a young cattleman

What did James Joyce have to say about the Irish beef industry?

James Joyce / 20 Aug 19

Boris Johnson at the launch of his book "The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History" in 2014. Photo: David M. Benett/ Getty Images

Boris Johnson, Winston Churchill and the United States of Europe

Boris Johnson / 13 Aug 19

"Boris Johnson is primarily motivated by his own narcissistic desire for power, success, and historical legacy, at whatever cost to anyone else"

The moral case against a no-deal Brexit

Brexit / 02 Sep 19

"If Europe is becoming the defining issue in British politics, parties with firm positions on both sides of the argument could become a serious long term danger to the current main parties"

How the Brexit referendum caused a new division in UK politics

Politics / 03 Sep 19

Boris Johnson and the Conservatives just want to have fun

'Boris Johnson may be a joke, but he will have the last laugh'

Boris Johnson / 26 Jun 19

"In the absence of major new revelations, the referendum should be regarded as a valid, though flawed, democratic exercise"

Here's the case against a second Brexit referendum

Brexit / 29 May 19

Ireland's Seamus Coleman with Stuart Dallas of Northern Ireland in the Three International Friendly at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin in November 2018. Photo: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Irish soccer's split identity in the age of Brexit

Soccer / 21 May 19

The ayes have it: You're going to miss this lad when it's all over

'We're fed up of Brexit, yet we can't get enough of it'

Brexit / 13 Apr 19

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