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Brief from Brussels: Irish border in Brexit spotlight
In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt calls on the UK to come up with a solution for the Irish border issue; EU eyes are on Germany as voters prepare to head to the ballot...
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Catalonia: from confrontation to dialogue
Au lendemain du référendum catalan marqué par des violences policières la Commission européenne appelle tous les acteurs à reprendre le chemin du dialogue. Mais elle souligne dans le même temps que le scrutin est illégal au regard de la...
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Brexit: UK under pressure over Irish border
The European Parliament’s Brexit chief is calling on the UK to come up with a solution to avoid new controls on the Irish border. Guy Verhofstadt has been making his position clear during a visit to Northern Ireland and the Irish...
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EU’s Barnier seeks Irish border solution
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has reiterated the importance of striking a deal with the UK that stops the return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. He insisted preserving the Good...
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Trudeau teams up with Ireland against isolationism
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar pledged to push the free-trade agenda forward as both countries deal with increasingly isolationist neighbours
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Irish party leader speaks to media
Support from Democratic Unionist Party is crucial to U.K. Conservatives' hold on government
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Ryanair makes big profits, vows lower fares
Ryanair is vowing to cut ticket prices by up to seven percent after posting record annual profits. The low-cost Irish airline earned a net profit of more than 1.3 billion euros last year, even though fares were discounted by an average...
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Duplessis Orphans find connections overseas
Duplessis Orphans, who were born in the '40s and '50s to unwed mothers, say they were held in psychiatric hospitals, forced into hard labour, and abused, but now they're finding a common connection overseas.
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Hard Irish border would be ‘a disaster’, ex-UK PM Blair says
A return to a hard border in Ireland would be a disaster, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday. The comments came from ex-UK PM Tony Blair following a visit by chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier. Blair helped...
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Chief Brexit negotiator says a “no deal” is not an option
Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says a ‘no deal scenario’ with the UK would be unthinkable. He says all efforts should be made to secure a deal on citizens rights first of all: “We need to provide answers to all those whom the...
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Brexit must avoid hard border in Ireland, says EU negotiator
Avoiding a hard border in Ireland is a top priority for the EU, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator says. Frenchman Michel Barnier, an ex-EU commissioner, told Irish parliamentarians that they had the full backing from Brussels. “I want...
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EU leaders to discuss Brexit without UK
EU governments meet in Brussels on Saturday in the first summit without British PM Theresa May. The twenty seven leaders will endorse the European Commission’s negotiating guidelines. Diplomats say talks will focus uniquely on the...
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EU’s Juncker warns of Brexit risk to Good Friday Agreement
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned how Brexit could threaten peace in Northern Ireland after a meeting with Irish PM Enda Kenny. “We don’t want to have hard borders between Northern Ireland and the Republic. We want...
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EU competition commissioner: working out how much Apple owes Ireland is ‘tricky’
The European competition commissioner has confirmed that technology giant Apple missed a January 3 deadline to pay 13 billion euros that Brussels has said it owes to the Irish government. Margrethe Vestager explained that was because the...
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UK and Irish manufacturing show strong growth in December
British manufacturing is going gangbusters indicating strong growth in 2017. In December manufacturing in the UK grew at the fastest pace in two-and-a-half-years. The latest survey of company purchasing managers found the predicted slump...
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Apple and Dublin detail challenges to EU’s Irish tax deal ruling
Apple has launched a legal challenge to a record 13 billion euro tax bill from the European Union. Senior executives at the iPhone and iPad maker say it is doing that because EU regulators ignored tax experts as well as corporate law....
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YouTube vlogger Bry releases debut album
From online busker to rising pop star. Irish singer-songwriter Bry is releasing his debut album. Friends, MY DEBUT ALBUM IS NOW OUT! Please get it & support independent music
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Spider venom could save lives
A team of Irish researchers is conducting an unusual kind of experiment – they are examining the venom of some of the hundreds of species of spiders found in Ireland in the hope it may have medicinal properties. It comes after the team...
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To take the money or not – Ireland delays decision over Apple tax cash
Ireland’s cabinet failed to agree on Wednesday on whether Dublin should appeal against a ruling by Brussels that technology giant Apple has to give 13 billion euros of underpaid taxes to the government. Independent lawmakers in the...
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Dublin to fight Brussels over EU ordered Apple back tax payment
The Irish government has decided to appeal against an EU ruling that it should get 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes from technology giant Apple. Dublin is siding with the world’s richest company and rejecting the huge windfall for its...
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Police arrest IOC exec for allegedly scalping Rio tickets
Brazilian police arrested a member of the IOC's executive board, Ireland's Patrick Hickey, in connection with an investigation into ticket scalping at the Olympics.
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Ryanair shrugs off profit risks from Brexit
Ryanair has said it remains on track for its highest ever profit in the current financial year, up around 13 percent on last year. The Irish low-cost airline is confident of not being too badly hit by the effects of Britain’s vote to...
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Facebook faces tax probe over transfer of assets to Ireland
The US tax authorities say Facebook may have unfairly cut its tax bill by understating by “billions of dollars” the value of intellectual property it transferred to Ireland in 2010. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking a court...
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Sinn Fein calls for Irish unification following Brexit
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