A lot may have changed in the last 20 years, but in many ways, few lessons have been learned from how we lived in the late 1990s and early 2000s, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The Celtic fans having a pop at Rod Stewart last weekend were at least getting into the Christmas spirit nice and early.

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.

The British Prime Minister will welcome the more than 100 newly-elected colleagues, many of them from former Labour areas across the north and Midlands, to the House of Commons on Monday.

The country is heading for a general election at the end of February following British prime minister Boris Johnson’s “stunning victory” which has handed him an 80-seat majority.

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

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

Three little words, “Yes, We Can”, were all it took for Barack Obama to win the US presidency in 2008.

We will know today whether these key moments in the UK election campaign impacted on how people voted Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are poor options and each has had a few awkward campaign moments that may have influenced the election, writes Therese Raphael.

Irish people will be looking with more interest than usual at political events in the UK today, as the British electorate goes to the polls.

There are big issues that demand attention at this election. But one topic rules the roost, says Michael Clifford

Financial shares including those of Permanent TSB were boosted following upgrades of Irish banking by rating firms.

Northern Ireland is being dragged out of the European Union into a “little Englander nightmare,” Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill has said.

Sterling inched down from a six-month high against the euro and was a touch softer against the dollar, as a boost from the Brexit Party’s decision not to contest previously Conservative-held seats in Britain’s upcoming election faded.

The announcement means he has abandoned plans to contest more than 600 candidates in the upcoming ballot.

Almost three and a half years after the Brexit referendum the uncertainty continues.

The US president staged a major intervention by calling for the Prime Minister to team up with the Brexit Party leader to form an “unstoppable force” for the December 12 vote.

It would be the first December British election in 100 years and there would be a five-week campaign by parties up to polling day.

The UK is on course for a December general election after Labour announced its conditions to back the move had been met.

Over the past three years the whole Brexit fiasco has been a total circus, but the circus has undoubtedly become even more bizarre over the past week.

Irish shares fell sharply as investors took fright as British prime minister Boris Johnson said he would seek an election if MPs fail to back his new Brexit deal in the coming days.

Irish shares fell sharply as investors took fright as Boris Johnson said he would seek an election if MPs fail to back his new Brexit deal in the coming days.

British prime minister Boris Johnson is to seek to fast-track legislation to ratify his Brexit deal through the Commons in just three days as he attempts to avoid another delay to Britain’s departure from the EU.

It was billed as “Super Saturday” as the UK Commons held a weekend sitting for the first time in 37 years, but things did not go the way British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had planned.

With Brexit talks appearing to be at an impasse as the withdrawal deadline looms, here is a look at what could happen next in the UK’s roller-coaster relationship with the EU.

In the not so very long ago confounded European Union mandarins launched a community-wide competition so an articulate European might offer a workable definition of peripherality. The layered implications, the one-man’s-meat-is-another-man’s-tofu complexity of that designation and its geographic realities were bewildering, so a prize of €100,000 was offered.

Vested interests degrade society. DUP spurning best of both worlds, EU-UK withdrawal agreement between 28 EU states, two years negotiated 585 pages. Right-wing UK press laughs at “remainers” and “backstop”, courting social disaster sneering at the EU that brought peace, prosperity to member states over seven decades.

The stakes are too high to allow one political party to have a veto over the backstop, the leader of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald has warned.

Political editor Daniel McConnell answers your questions about the difference between the backstop and a possible Northern Ireland backstop

Boris Johnson’s government has been told to publish communications connected to prorogation and no-deal Brexit planning after MPs supported an emergency Commons motion.

The everyday language used to colour political discourse hardly seems equal to keeping pace with the convention-shattering chaos of trying to deliver on the 2016 52/48 Brexit vote.

Sinn Féin has criticised Leo Varadkar for "conceding at the 11th hour" that there would be border checks in a no-deal Brexit.

The Conservative Party has shared a picture of Jeremy Corbyn dressed as a chicken, captioned: “Hey @KFC_UKI, we’ve found an even bigger chicken than you.”

The Scottish Parliament has symbolically rejected any no-deal Brexit, despite opposition from Conservative MSPs.

Rees-Mogg’s attempt to drag Parnell into the Brexit debate was a squalid ploy to exploit anti-Irish sentiment in Britain and cling to power, writes Ryle Dwyer

It seems Britain will fall into what Tony Blair described as Boris Johnson’s early election “elephant trap”.

The British PM is right to think that suspending parliament has made a Brexit deal more likely. But the backlash could have serious consequences, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to ram home hard Brexiteer policy by playing with the House of Commons rules, writes Eddie Hobbs

Speculation is rife about a general election being called in the near-term despite the route to an early vote being complicated by 2011 legislation, writes Robert Hutton

Mr Varadkar's comments were jeered by a section of the crowd which had otherwise broadly welcomed him.

The hard line over Brexit taken by Boris Johnson in his first speech in the House of Commons as British prime minister suggests a strategy that will inevitably lead to an early general election.

Boris Johnson has been confirmed as the Conservative Party’s new leader – and the UK’s next prime minister.

They did it. Despite knowing all that they know about him, they still voted for him.

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.