In last week’s general election, fought mainly over Brexit, pro-remain parties received the most votes, yet the pro-leave Tories won a huge majority of seats, says Jeffrey Sachs.

It may seem churlish to begin consideration of the spectacular Tory election victory in Washington but it seems unavoidable.

If it’s possible to argue that tribalism is the very antithesis of democracy then it should not be too difficult to argue that a mothballed democracy feeds tribalism and the divisions that guarantees.

It is not necessary to be a pessimist much less a fatalist to feel we are living through a moment of great change, a moment of great reversal.

Direct rule would need to be introduced in Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the British Government has confirmed.

Reading the text, the first impression is that there’s much more that hasn’t changed than has.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said his party continues to hold firm and will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

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.

British democracy was long renowned for its moderation, but its Brexiteer prime minister has pitched it into a political civil war with Remainers, says Philippe Legrain.

An explosive device has detonated in Co Fermanagh as police and British Army bomb disposal officers were searching the area.

Some of Northern Ireland's biggest problems have nothing to do with leaving the EU, but all anyone talks about now is the backstop, writes Sarah Campbell.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he wants to hear what incoming British prime minister Boris Johnson has to say about how he intends avoiding a hard Brexit.

The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legislate for marriage equality and abortion in Northern Ireland, unless the government at Stormont is up and running again by October 21.

With polls indicating Boris Johnson could win the Tory leadership battle by a landslide, the irony is that his hold on power may be extremely fragile, says Andrew Hammond.

It is a bit rich of Jeffrey Donaldson of the Democratic Unionist Party to complain of what he sees as Dublin’s failure to engage in dialogue with unionists, when his own party has been sluggish in addressing Sinn Féin concerns in order to restore the North’s power-sharing institutions.

The North and Westeros are tied together by more than just cartography, writes Mark O’Connell.

So that’s Friday nearly 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.

Just over a month after claims that Ireland was imposing a “hard border” with Britain at sea, the Government’s legislation underpinning “reciprocal” inshore fishing rights between the North and the Republic will be debated in the Dáil tomorrow.

MPs are voting tonight on eight possible Brexit options after Parliament seized control of the Commons agenda.

Richard Halleron The board members of Lakeland Dairies and the other southern co-ops that draw milk across the border from Northern Ireland for processing will hope against hope that Theresa May gets her Brexit deal across the line.

Theresa May’s leadership hangs by threads after her Brexit withdrawal deal fell to another historic defeat, says Andrew Hammond.

Just over two years ago, when Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said it would be a mistake to allow the local crocodiles to hope that their well-honed appetites might be satisfied because, no matter how much they were given to eat, they would want more she revealed far more than she intended.

Joe Brolly and Jarlath Burns are strange bedfellows.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar expressed his “disappointment” at the decision of UK prime minister Theresa May to renege on the Irish backstop in the event of a disorderly Brexit.

The PSNI as well as firefighters and the ambulance service sealed off the scene close to a courthouse on Bishop Street in the city.

British prime minister Theresa May’s “humiliating” defeat in the House of Commons increases the risk of a disorderly Brexit, the Government has warned.

Yanis Varoufakis says an enormous sense of anxiety pervades the Brexit debate but a People’s Debate is a democratic way of squaring this circle and solving many issues.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, responding to Theresa May's survival in the no confidence vote, said: "Tonight's vote makes no difference to the lives of our people.

We've successfully collaborated on electricity supply for 11 years, but could Brexit pull this unique innovation apart?

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The DUP's Ian Paisley will be suspended from the House of Commons for 30 sitting days from September 4 following a major breach of parliamentary rules, MPs have confirmed.

The HSE may be forced to appoint a patient advocate to its returned HSE board as part of strict new accountability and transparency measures set to be passed by the Government.

We weren’t just ending the conflict, we were also putting in place arrangements to replace the Anglo-Irish Agreement, writes then junior minister Liz O’Donnell

When a fiction-based resolution of a crisis starts to unravel it is not always easy to pinpoint the moment progress reverts to tribal retrenchment.

Reports that a Northern Ireland-based journalist has been subjected to a death threat from a loyalist paramilitary group has prompted condemnations across the political divide.

Theresa May's new Brexit offer will be put to the test this week as negotiations between British and European Union officials resume in Brussels.

Ulster Protestantism associates Gaelic with republicanism, which we oppose, and our cultural insecurity has informed the DUP’s rejection of an Irish Language Act, says Richard Irvine

This Friday marks the first anniversary of the latest collapse of Stormont.