Brexit provides dissident republicans with a “rallying cry” in their bid to perpetuate the severe threat they pose to security services in the North, a senior PSNI officer has said.

Ireland has been found to be in breach of its international obligations in relation to access to information on the environment.

With chaos reigning in London, embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May despite two heavy defeats is clinging to the Withdrawal Agreement she negotiated with the EU last November.

The power to grant or deny freedom of movement to EU nationals within the North should be devolved to Stormont following Brexit, British peers have urged.

Unemployed Irish people should be able to work in underdeveloped countries and retain their unemployment payments from the State, Dáil Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett told fellow deputies from other EU member states.

Senator Mark Daly is right to highlight the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of Irish legislation (Aug 29).

Most financial institutions in the UK will be able to escape strict European rules aimed at curbing bankers’ bonuses under a new code issued today by the City watchdog.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern today accused the European Parliament of failing to act to ensure CIA flights are not carrying terror suspects to torture camps.

THE Aughinish Alumina plant is facing a new EU pollution probe following complaints by local farmers.

ACCORDING to a recent EU committee report, Ireland is the third worst offender in all of Europe, after Germany and the UK, in allowing torture flights to land and refuel, with 147 CIA flights identified at Shannon airport.

I’M not sure which is the greater indignity: that Shannon is used for so-called rendition flights, or that we have a Government prepared to tell the world it believes the Bush administration when it says they don’t happen.

WITH only 29 days to the Special Olympics, Health Minister Micheál Martin is under intense pressure at home and abroad to reverse his controversial ban on teams from SARS hotspots coming to Ireland.

THE Government should stop issuing new taxi plates immediately and rethink its entire taxi policy, the Oireachtas Transport Committee heard yesterday.

A European Union parliamentary committee has voted down drastic changes to proposed rules to marry copyright legislation with the internet.