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With Ireland chosen to host a major exhibition on European craft, we’re treated to everything from unconventional ceramics and traditional basket making, to the application of new technology, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Let’s hope the coming year brings better tidings than those received from the one we’re leaving. Twas a year to remember and a year to forget.

Sterling fell sharply against the euro, ratcheting up the pressure on Irish firms selling goods and services across the Irish Sea following the weekend declaration by British Prime Minister Teresa May that the UK is intent on a hardline exit from the EU.

NORTHERN IRELAND’s DUP party has done a humiliating U-turn on Brexit. First Minister, Arlene Foster, and her party, campaigned vigorously in favour of the UK leaving the European Union, without giving due consideration to what that would mean for the North’s economy.

“WHEN Teresa May slipped into her slinky red dress on Wednesday morning, she knew exactly the effect her outfit would have,” wrote somebody in the Daily Mail the other day.

Interpol, the largest international police organisation in the world, issued a global security alert to its 188 member countries today after explosives were found on two US-bound planes last week.