By attempting to suspend parliament as the Brexit deadline looms, Boris Johnson has damaged the rule of law and is acting like a fascist leader, writes Nina L Khrushcheva.

Simon Coveney has warned the British prime minister Ireland will not be “steam-rolled” into any deal which drags this country out of the EU to solve the Brexit crisis.

It wasn’t quite on the same scale as Brexiteers puffing out their chests and quoting Winston Churchill’s “we will fight them on the beaches” speech, but, in an Irish context, there was no avoiding the point being made by the Cabinet yesterday.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has revealed it was his side’s 3-2 FA Cup defeat by Manchester United in January that persuaded him his side were capable of winning major honours.

Andy Robinson is sick of coming up with excuses.

IT’S been dubbed the slowest car chase in history. Caroline Turner, 76, powered along at 10mph in her Ford Fiesta, driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway as a fleet of Essex police patrol cars “chased” her at a snail’s pace for 27 miles last Tuesday.

AGAIN, Dr Pat Walsh (Letters, April 26) refuses to face up to the facts of how Britain declared war against Turkey in November 1914.

FRANCE hooker William Servat has urged his team-mates to put all talk of the Grand Slam to one side as they prepare for today’s crunch battle with England in their final RBS 6 Nations test.

IN 1939, Britain faced a wartime crisis of grave peril.

England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was disappointed he was treated “almost like a traitor” after it was revealed he had met Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon.