News Ireland Politics: How Brexit is leading a resurgent Irish American influence in US politics
With reciprocal interest from organisations in Ireland, a transnational culture of political activism developed that eventually fed into the successful struggle for Ireland’s independence in the ...
News Ireland Politics: Those negotiating Brexit on behalf of Britain have no skin in game for Ireland’s fragile peace
Neither will it be over on October 31. It will be part of Irish and European political discourse for many years to come. For the first time in hundreds of years, despite our own independence, Britain ...
News Ireland Politics: Fighting talk: Ireland raises stakes in Brexit showdown
With the prospect of a no-deal Brexit becoming ever more likely under Boris Johnson, the remaining EU member state with most to lose -- Ireland -- is hardening its rhetoric. Ireland has a land border with Britain that it wants to keep free-flowing after Brexit and it fears massive economic disruption
News Ireland Politics: Northern Ireland and Brexit: Where History and Fantasy Collide
Almost 100 years on since the formation of the Northern Irish state, it is still the Irish question that is bedeviling politics in the United Kingdom. Brexit is not about Europe. It is about the ...
News Ireland Politics: Northern Ireland’s political parties meet new Secretary of State
Northern Ireland’s new Secretary of State has held a series of separate meetings with the five main parties in Belfast. Julian Smith met the political parties at Stormont on Friday morning. Mr Smith ...
News Ireland Politics: A Gobshite American President in Ireland
Given the political chaos in the United Kingdom, Varadkar has no reason to believe that Brexit will work out well. This time, though, he held his tongue. As he explained to reporters after his visitor ...
News Ireland Politics: On Trump’s Ireland Visit, Talk of Brexit and Border Walls
even though his visit here included the complicated politics of modern-day Europe. As a major local employer, Mr. Trump is popular in this part of the country, unlike in Britain or other parts of ...
News Ireland Politics: Trump thinks that Ireland wants a border wall. Good grief.
Ireland does not want border controls. Brexit is the reason the Irish border is a political issue in the first place. The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (which is part of ...
