The Irish Government needs to be aware of the “trade-offs” resulting from tighter regulation of harmful online communication, a senior Facebook official has said.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has launched a series of stinging attacks on the handling by Fine Gael of the Brexit negotiations, saying that a claim that it was the only party that could have guided Ireland through amounts to “supreme arrogance”.

The Taoiseach has ramped up his efforts to make Brexit the key election issue and said that should the public elect Fianna Fail to office they will be getting an “untried and untested team”.

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should stay out of the election and his former party Fine Gael is “politicising” Brexit, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed.

Ireland is ranked tenth out of 36 European countries in a global index of countries affected by terrorism.

A surplus in the public finances of €1.4bn or 0.4% is now likely at the end of the year because of higher than expected corporation taxes, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said.

Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

A leading European expert on digitisation and the right to privacy has described the responsibility of Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner in regulating tech multinationals as being “disproportionate”.

The bureau has also seen a massive rise in the value of new asset seizure cases in the High Court, set to approach €100 million in 2019, compared to €8.2m in 2018.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has thrown down the gauntlet to the likely next British prime minister Boris Johnson by saying he is the “only person” who knows if there is going to be a no-deal Brexit.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said An Garda Síochána will “absolutely” help Europol, the EU police agency, in setting up a specialist unit to target the finances of European crime bosses.

Europol, the EU police agency, wants experts from the Criminal Assets Bureau to help set up a specialist unit to target the finances of crime bosses across Europe.

Hard-line Brexiteers will have no one to blame except themselves if they get everything they want from the crisis, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.

A dedicated Garda internet unit would allow it to refer greater volumes of takedown requests to companies concerning online terrorist material, according to the EU’s counter-terrorism chief.

Decisions and action are needed before a stalemate on higher education funding leads to further impact on students, the author of a key 2016 report to Government has warned.

Any worthwhile relationship can withstand an honest conversation. The best relationships are empowered when directness replaces fudge; when a spade is called a spade.

The report from the consultancy group Copenhagen Economics on Brexit commissioned by the Government was the latest in a series: The Institute of International and European Affairs, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the European Commission, and in other reports, Government agencies themselves--have shown the effects that Brexit will have on Ireland.

Ireland is set to travel a bumpy — and very expensive — road in the journey to meet its clean energy and carbon emission reduction targets, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Ireland is leading the way in the international response to the refugee crisis, according to the United Nations.

Preventing “low-cost” terrorism involving a vehicle or a knife is a key challenge for European law and order agencies, the EU security commissioner said in Dublin yesterday.

The Government has lost a key vote on a Fianna Fáil motion to create a Brexit minister, putting it under increased pressure to appoint an individual to the role in the coming weeks.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has suggested Ireland will directly seek extra funds from the EU for businesses and areas hit by Brexit.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has suggested that Ireland will directly seek extra funds from the European Union for businesses and areas hit by Brexit, writes Juno McEnroe of the Irish Examiner.

Ireland’s economy has so far weathered the storm but remains “especially vulnerable” should the UK fail to strike a favourable deal in its Brexit talks with the EU, says Central Bank governor Philip Lane.

Confused about Brexit? These two videos will help clear some things up

It’s been a long time coming but Brexit day is almost here.

Islamic State sees the whole of Europe, including Ireland, as the “home of the Jews and the Crusaders” and one “vast battleground” for its terrorists, a leading expert has warned.

If the UK does ultimately vote to leave the European Union it could have disastrous consequences for Irish firms. Several major business groups and think tanks outline here what they think could happen,

The chair of the new Climate Change Advisory Council has said the group won’t hold back on criticising the Government for failings in tackling carbon emissions.

The country’s farmers are being urged to go green and plant forestry to avoid Ireland being slapped with billions of euros in fines for the carbon footprint from our millions of burping cows.

PUBLIC discussions about rural issues in Ireland often take a stereotypical view, taking extremes, either as a rural idyll or as a problem, writes Prof Cathal O’Donoghue

The declaration by David Drumm, former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank that he would deliberate to the banking inquiry by video link is an outrageous display of condescension and disrespect toward the Irish public and a mischievous instance of self-serving manipulation.

THE haughty arrogance of Jean Claude Trichet, who last week snubbed Ireland’s banking inquiry and insisted that Oireachtas members attend upon him at his venue of choice, is trumped only by his gross insensitivity to the memory of the former finance minister, the late Brian Lenihan.

The departure of Patrick Honohan from the Central Bank caps a week where the Irish public saw the true reality of central bank independence.

A British exit from the EU following the upcoming general election could wipe almost €4bn off the value of Irish exports.

Senior European Central Bank officials, including ex-ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet, are set to meet with the banking inquiry in a “neutral” Dublin location this spring to discuss their role in Ireland’s economic crash.

The Irish Garden Plant Society Munster Branch will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, February 3 at the SMA Hall Wilton, starting at 8pm. 

The controversial ‘double Irish’ tax mechanism was never part of the Irish tax code and was not a viable way of building a sustainable economy, says Minister for Finance Michael Noonan.

The new leaders of the European Union have an opportunity to focus on how economic growth should affect societies, President Michael D Higgins has said.

German policy towards the eurozone is steeped in double standards as it has dropped the policies it now wants other member states to pursue, according to a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s advice to stick to the €2bn budget adjustment next month is politically impossible, said Fine Gael TD, Bernard Durkan.