City have fallen foul of Uefa’s curiously subjective FFP structures and now the roof is falling in, writes Simon Curtis.

Company directors in Ireland by a large margin approved the Government’s handling of the Brexit negotiations, but were less impressed by its overall performance, according to the latest survey by the Institute of Directors in Ireland.

European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot has said he does not expect interest rates to fundamentally change in the coming years.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both spoken positively after a day of talks at Stormont.

Boris Johnson altered the landscape of British politics on Thursday night, ending a debilitating parliamentary gridlock and three years of uncertainty over Brexit.

Further large gains for sterling are unlikely after the currency rallied on a poll showing Boris Johnson securing a large majority in the UK election on December 12, a leading economics consultancy has said.

Ireland’s tourism sector is on the crest of a wave. It had a record year in 2018.

The European Commission told five countries, including Italy and France, that their draft budgets for 2020 risk breaching the eurozone’s fiscal rules.

Britain’s financial services industry, the country’s biggest tax earner, risks being cut adrift from its main export market — the EU — after Brexit.

Waiting for the Brexit finale has been a bit like sitting in a dentist’s surgery for three years — scared of the worst while hoping for the best, yet willing to accept a modicum of discomfort to get it all over with.

Over the last three years, Brexit has been a toxic, deeply divisive issue. Old scars have been picked.

I should be writing about today’s budget this morning. But there’s nothing to say, really.

Confirmation of a second meeting between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson has raised hopes a Brexit deal is possible before the October 31 deadline.

UK Chancellor Sajid Javid was in Dublin today for talks with Mr Donohoe, his first visit to Ireland.

Failing to get Brexit right risks people being killed in Northern Ireland, a Tory former Cabinet minister has warned.

Boris Johnson has insisted progress is being made in Brexit talks with Brussels and the chances of an agreement have risen – but the European Union said a no-deal outcome remained a “distinct possibility”.

Boris Johnson used a statement in Downing Street to call on MPs to resist an attempt to block a no-deal Brexit.

The conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion.

So that’s nearly Friday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney and British prime minister Boris Johnson have begun the latest final stretch in the Brexit diplomatic marathon as the pair rather aptly flying off in completely different directions.

The Brexit withdrawal agreement signed in 2017 by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and then UK prime minister Theresa May is in jeopardy now that May has been succeeded by Boris Johnson, writes Daniel McConnell

A no-deal Brexit could see the entire island of Ireland treated as one economic zone for food and agriculture trade, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has signalled.

And so the softening up process has begun - there will be checks on goods crossing the border, the only matter to clarify is where exactly, writes Juno McEnroe

The Government and officials have for the first time warned about the prospect of checks on goods crossing the Northern Irish border and the end of frictionless trade in the event of a disorderly Brexit.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed the Government will ask the EU to re-appoint ex-Fine Gael minister Phil Hogan as an EU commissioner - despite the backlash over the Mercosur deal.

Mercosur (Southern Common Market) is the South American trade bloc. That’s Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela — although Venezuela is currently suspended.

The latest health check on the Irish economy has delivered a cautious thumbs up, despite sterling taking a fresh tumble amid heightening fears of a no-deal Brexit happening in October.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Global shares rose on the belief more central banks will be forced to cut interest rates to shelter the global economy from the trade wars, but crash-out Brexit fears weighed heavily on sterling.

Low interest rates are justified by economic conditions in the eurozone and their impact on banks’ profitability should not be exaggerated, says ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau.

Independent Clare Daly has pledged to “rattle the cages of those in authority” after being elected to the European Parliament in the constituency of Dublin.

The European Commission is understood to be considering proposing a disciplinary procedure for Italy next week over its failure to rein in debt, which could pave the way for a €3.5bn penalty.

The Government will today discuss the collapse in cross-party Brexit talks in London as well as fresh fears of Britain crashing out of the EU without agreement.

Britain’s Brexit crisis moves, with each passing week, ever higher up the fiasco index. If it were not so grave for the future of one Europe’s major democracies — and economies — it would be comical.

While last week's news that Italy’s economy had returned to growth in the first quarter of the year will certainly have been welcomed like the proverbial flowers of Spring across the EU, it is, for now at least, little more than a band-aid upon the towering spectre of its massive public debt.

Sterling and shares brushed aside the UK local election results as investors focused on the potential fallout from the European Parliament elections later this month.

The article by Mr Carl Bildt ‘Ukraine has fended off Russia and the EU deserves credit’ (Irish Examiner, April 24) not only presents events in Ukraine in a misleading way, but contains a great number of factual errors as well.

Sterling slid against the euro as the request by Prime Minister Theresa May for a Brexit extension increased market tension over the latest drama in British politics.

The European Commission’s president has warned Britain “patience runs out” in the clearest sign yet Brussels is prepared to cut its losses and accept a no-deal Brexit outcome in just 11 days’ time.

Brace yourselves for a staggeringly pure truth which is stranger than fiction.

It is reported that more of Theresa May's backbenchers are now set to support her, and that even the DUP could be on the brink of backing her.

Sterling soared against the euro and the dollar as fears that the UK will crash out of the EU receded.

Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent