The ultimate owner of Aughinish Alumina in Limerick has said significant investment is planned for the facility, just months after US Government sanctions threatened the future of its 450-plus jobs.

A motion has been tabled in the House of Lords for Yvette Cooper's bill to be rushed through the second chamber in a single day, allowing it to become law by the end of today.

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

Brexit talks remain in deadlock as DUP leader Arlene Foster said the Government has been pushing an “aggressive agenda” on the border issue.

He was responding to Peter Hain's expected suggestion that Northern Ireland should be part of the same customs union and single market as the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has won Parliament's approval to begin talks on a divorce deal for the UK leaving the EU.

Earlier the UK Government comfortably defeated a Liberal Democrat bid to give voters a final say on the Brexit deal in a referendum.

Ministers in the UK have been warned they could face a fresh legal challenge to Theresa May's Brexit plans unless they guarantee British Parliament a vote on the outcome of negotiations with the EU.

A former aide to Nigel Farage has been jailed for eight months in the US after pleading guilty to fraud.

Gerry Adams has said tonight's vote by the British Parliament on amendments to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, shows that "the British government does not care one iota for the people of the North."

Lords of Strut are among a diverse range of acts playing the Quarter Block Party in Cork this weekend, writes Colette Sheridan.

The Government's defeat in a historic court battle over Brexit will not derail Theresa May's plan to start negotiations on withdrawal from the EU by the end of March, Downing Street has said.

The way in which the UK leaves the EU and on what terms is critical for jobs and investment in Ireland, writes John Whelan.

The final Brexit deal reached between the UK and European Union will be put to a vote of both the UK’s Houses of Parliament, Theresa May has announced.

Police in England are investigating an allegation that a Tory MP's aide raped a woman in the British Houses of Parliament.

Ireland would need to negotiate a special deal with Brussels if Britain leaves the EU, Fine Gael MEP and director of elections Brian Hayes has told a hearing of the British House of Lords.

The people of Limerick may have forgotten they have their own namesake earl in the British aristocracy, but he has remembered to use their world famous way with words in order to fight for a seat in the House of Lords.

Tory eurosceptics are demanding 340,000 Irish citizens be stripped of their right to vote in the looming in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU.

Britain faces a potential political crisis as the House of Lords threatens to overturn the supremacy of the Commons.

The British government has announced the three members of an independent panel set up to assess paramilitary activity in the North of Ireland.

Downing Street has been forced to fend off claims that David Cameron participated in a bizarre student initiation ritual as a simmering row with a major Tory party donor erupted into the open.

The chairman of a review group which is set to recommend a radical shakeup of Cork’s local government structures has insisted it will put forward the best model for the city and county as a whole.

Scandal-hit peer Lord Sewel has resigned from the House of Lords after coming under intense pressure over footage of him allegedly taking cocaine with two prostitutes.

David Cameron has indicated Lord Sewel should be kicked out of the House of Lords over “very serious” allegations he took drugs with prostitutes.

Birtain's Lord Sewel is facing a police investigation after quitting as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords over a video allegedly showing him taking drugs with prostitutes.

Apprentice star Alan Sugar has quit the UK's Labour Party – blaming their “negative business policies” and anti-enterprise approach.

The UK has become the first country in the world to legalise the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people.

A campaigning British MP has called for the reinvestigation of the suspicious deaths more than 20 years ago of two whistleblowers who he believes had significant information relating to organised child abuse.

At least 20 prominent paedophiles, including former British MPs and British government ministers, abused children for “decades” with even more establishment figures in the UK involved in covering up their activities, a child protection expert has claimed.

One of the Queen of England's page boys appeared to faint as the monarch neared the end of outlining the British Government’s proposed laws.

Former Northern Ireland first minister Lord Trimble is to brief MPs about the sending of letters to republican fugitives which assured them they were not wanted by police.

Secret letters sent to on-the-run suspects in Northern Ireland did not amount to “immunity, exemption or amnesty from arrest”, the British Government insisted today.

The British Government was defeated in the Lords tonight over its banking reform plans in the wake of the 2008 crash.

What politicians access on their computers in Leinster House is protected under confidentiality rules.

MPs cheered today as they were told gay marriage had passed into law.

Royal Bank of Scotland is today expected to announce 2,000 job losses in the wake of boss Stephen Hester’s plans to stand down after five years at the helm.

The introduction of gay marriage in Britain has moved a step closer after legislation cleared a major hurdle in the House of Lords.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he has not seen any proposal from the British government on a purchase of Ulster Bank.

UK Chancellor George Osborne is reportedly set to face calls from a high-powered commission of MPs and Lords to split Royal Bank of Scotland into a good bank and a bad bank.

Three members of Britain’s House of Lords were suspended by their parties yesterday after apparently being caught in newspaper stings agreeing to lobby Parliament in return for cash.

The Theatre Development Centre’s new three-week residencies provide the time and space for test runs of new work in Cork City, says Colette Sheridan