Is it a stretch for Ireland to join the Arctic Council?

Dublin is roughly 6,500 kilometres from the North Pole, but what's happening at the top of the world is apparently of strategic national interest.

Johnson takes modest approach as UK pips EU to vaccine

Boris Johnson was uncharacteristically modest about the UK becoming the first western country to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine. He had been asked by the Sun ...

What was the cost of Level 5 on our economy and health?

As the country moves out of Level 5 restrictions today, Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers looks at the impact on health services, while Economics Correspondent Robert ...

A lot left unsaid in Taoiseach's Level 3 speech

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin packed a lot into his TV address last night on the steps of Government Buildings.

Festive season can still sparkle but caution is needed

The bright lights of Christmas loom as battle against Covid-19 continues through the dark winter months. What happens over the coming weeks is within our ...

Joe Biden is preparing to take centre stage

The Queen Theatre in downtown Wilmington, Delaware has an old-world feel.

The deal that dare not speak its name

At the start of last week, the good folk who keep the Oxford English Dictionary up to date informed us that use of the word ...

Talking about mental health was a good start by Martin

As the Government unveils measures to ease current Covid-19 restrictions in time for Christmas, Paul Cunningham says it's a risk the Government is all too ...

Boris must make biggest call of his political career

Expect Boris Johnson's survival instincts to kick in over the coming days, a deal with Brussels being the way out of a deepening hole for ...

Donald Trump's changing strategies

Conspiracy theories and disputed claims of fraud in the recent US election won't change the maths but there is a danger that they will damage ...

Final throes of Brexit legal fixes and hardball tactics

As we hurtle towards 31 December the scramble for a deal is forcing both sides to get creative in the hope that they do not ...

Level thinking needed to decide Covid-19 exit strategy

Agreeing coronavirus restrictions for the festive season will be a high-wire act and one of the biggest tests for Government. People will also want to ...

Business patience dwindles as Christmas market at play

Govt closes door on Woulfe being removed by Oireachtas

Today's announcement by the Government definitively closes the door on the prospect of Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe being removed from office by the Oireachtas.

Woulfe controversy 'judiciary's version of Saipan'

At the end of an extraordinary week for the country's highest court, Legal Affairs Correspondent Orla O'Donnell examines the controversy surrounding the appointment of Seamus ...

Growing clamour from business for Christmas reopening

Employers' body Ibec has taken aim at the National Public Health Emergency Team as decisions loom for Government on what happens after 1 December when ...

UK exit from Brexit is way behind schedule

In the face of so much devastation from Covid-19, hardline Brexit zealotry could now be seen as the self-indulgence of an out of touch elite.

Great Brexit Bake Off: Food is central to NI Protocol

Stormont officials have described preparations for the Northern Ireland Protocol as a "major emergency response plan" and central to that is food, including food safety ...

Staying on course against Covid-19

There is no season finale in sight in the ongoing coronavirus drama. But how this battle ends will be down to the sum of all ...

Covid-19: Govt must strike balance for Christmas period

Intense discussions are under way in Government on how to manage the reopening of the country in December. But even a Level 3 Christmas will ...