The family of the late Taoiseach Jack Lynch has urged the State to ensure his lasting legacy of leadership contributes to a better Ireland.

A co-author of a minority report which helped sink plans for a Cork super-council has broken his silence to urge the Government to move quickly and extend the city boundary.

The prime minister has helped Labour achieve a comeback which would force Lazarus to give a standing ovation, writes Allan Prosser.

The EU needs to be rethought and move away from the ‘one size fits all’ to something more flexible, writes Richard Haass

NOW that British Prime Minister May has triggered Article 50, many voters in Northern Ireland and Scotland find themselves peering through Alice’s Looking Glass at a transformed world they did not ask to visit.

THE industrialisation of farming, especially since we joined the European Economic Community, has had a greater impact on our countryside than all previous human activity. 

British, French, and German leaders and bureaucrats realised after World War II that only an economically stable ‘United States’ of Europe would guarantee peace, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

The upcoming UK in-out referendum on Europe is the biggest event to affect Irish foreign policy since Ireland joined the European Economic Community with Britain in 1973.

Eight weeks from today, on June 23, British voters will decide if their country remains a member of the EU.

Former politician and diplomat Carl Bildt charts Britain’s relationship with the EU, from exclusion to integral to integration, and the ramifications of Brexit    

It is pure fantasy to believe that a British exit from the EU would not have a seismic impact on myriad areas. Policies must not be cherry-picked to convince the people, writes Ana Palacio

People often wonder what use are economists. In terms of climate change, this is a particularly appropriate question.

During the past year, right-wing populist politicians have been on the march, in France, the US and even in Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel’s generous response to the migration crisis has left her exposed, politically, as never before.

THE best political biographies do more than record their subjects’ lives.

The establishment of the European Economic Community (later the European Union), in 1957, was an extraordinary achievement.

With Greece teetering on the brink of a eurozone exit there has never been a more pressing time to reform the EU, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

David Cameron has allowed Eurosceptics to dictate the narrative of the UK debate on EU membership, says Mary C Murphy

Writer and Irish Examiner book reviewer, Mary Leland, wrote an informative article for a Sunday newspaper recently, reflecting on the media reports about the mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.

When the Irish people voted to join what was then called the European Economic Community we did so on the basis of how it would improve our lives — in other words what we would get out of the relationship.

Ireland’s presidency of the EU formally comes to an end on Sunday. It was the seventh time that Ireland undertook the presidency since joining the European Economic Community 40 years ago.

Former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson has called for the UK to leave the European Union, saying it is no longer in the country’s economic interest to remain in the bloc.

Ireland assumes the presidency of the European Union in just over a month but it is fair to say that the European project has not faced greater challenges or been more uncertain since the Treaty of Rome, the foundation document of the European Economic Community precursor of the European Union, was signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany in 1957.

GREECE is going through one of its periodic self-mutilations.

The agreement is not as controversial as Lisbon and Nice were, says Tom O’Malley

Where is our European Economic Community (of equal states) which we joined in 1973 by referendum?

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the editor of the Sunday Independent, Aengus Fanning, who has died following a battle with cancer.

THURSDAY’S emergency summit of eurozone leaders needs to be decisive and effective.

BRITISH voters looked set yesterday to reject a change in the way they elect their MPs as they cast their ballots in a national referendum that has threatened to tear the ruling coalition apart.

PATRICK Honohan is the new Michael O’Leary.

News from a New Republic: Ireland in the 1950s

THE Government privately opposed European enlargement four years after the state ended a 12-year battle to become a member.

During the Celtic Tiger period, this country was seen as one of the great success stories on the international stage, but we have allowed our influence to wane.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen presented a collection of Jack Lynch memorabilia to the people of Cork yesterday.

HAVING read the Lisbon Treaty cover to cover and followed the story of it from its inception, I understood it would not be passed unless it was unanimous, ie, every member state voted in favour of it.

FIFTY years ago yesterday, Seán Lemass stepped out of the shadow of Eamon de Valera to succeed him as taoiseach. He inspired renewed hope in the republican ideal that we could, as a people, provide for ourselves.

The controversial EU Reform Treaty will be officially signed by the Government at a ceremony in Lisbon on Thursday.

To mark the National Day of Commemoration yesterday, President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern participated in the ceremony at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in memory of all Irishmen and women who died in wars or on service with the UN.

The Central Bank has issued a special €2 coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.