The Taoiseach’s address to the nation on Saint Patrick’s night set a pretty perfect tone for where we find ourselves at the moment.

40 Americans among the passengers of a cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus.

Across the Atlantic, we have witnessed some very odd behaviour by two senior politicians, in the form of petulance in the US House of Congress.

It is not necessary to be even vaguely partisan to be disappointed that America’s Republican senators who sat in judgement of their president, and aspiring second-term president, ignored Donald Trump’s gross abuses of power and collusion with autocrats.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Two dozen properties hit the ‘Big Note’ in 2019, more than double the amount of the previous year in Cork, writes Tommy Barker

We still live with the scars of that time and those traumatic memories [of the horrendous austerity] will live on, writes Alison O'Connor.

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

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

Boris Johnson has won a decisive victory.

Reacting to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decisive victory, European Union leaders said they are hoping for a quick British parliament vote on Britain's withdrawal.

The president of the European Council has said he expects a vote on the UK’s Brexit agreement “as soon as possible”, as world leaders commended Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s General Election success.

Tomorrow’s election in Britain is only the end of the beginning. It won’t be the beginning of the end.

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

For much of the past few months, you could argue that the British Prime Minister whom Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has most resembled is Boris Johnson. A hugely popular potential saviour who ends up stumbling into one contretemps after another, yet somehow always manages to plough doggedly on to the next.

Tommy Leddy’s Sound Shop in Drogheda has been supplying musicians in the wee county of Louth and beyond for five decades.

Life is all about change — at least that’s the standard counsel, increasingly received as the years roll by.

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.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar nailed British prime minister Boris Johnson to a form of Brexit that is about as good as we could expect, writes Fergus Finlay

It is difficult to imagine a more insulting act by a head of government than to send a formal letter on headed notepaper purporting to come from his office and person, but omitting to sign it as a means of authenticating it. And then to send another signed letter saying something quite different.

The Budget was dominated by Brexit, which is exactly where it should be, given that that we are now facing down the barrel of a gun.

If you want to keep secret Brexit talks under wraps, don't dress the gardener in a suit, says Elaine Loughlin.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages.

Ireland’s rock-star puppet is on a nationwide tour. Bosco talks with Donal O’Keeffe about environmentalism, Brexit and Michael D

Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals will lead to a no-deal if significant changes are not made, the Tánaiste has warned.

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.

Debt sustainability for individuals, companies and countries is a very important concept.

Leo Varadkar knows that the Greens have eaten into a middle-class Fine Gael vote, writes Gerard Howlin

Media in Britain have been scrambling to react to the news that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was deemed unlawful.

British prime minister Johnson’s fixation on a no-deal exit from the European Union is without justification. Brexiteers claim a trade relationship with the US will redefine trade for the world in the 21st century.

Tumultuous events seen at their enactment as unprecedented, are often insignificant and measure history repeating itself.

So that’s Tuesday 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.

We're getting good, aren’t we, at ushering unwelcome politicians out the door.

It takes some effort to embarrass your guest, the Prime Minister of your nearest neighbour, who prides himself on being an expert in Classics.

The rain had been beating down steadily on Government Buildings ahead of the arrival of Boris Johnson who is enduring very dark times himself these days.

“It is good that the meeting is taking place. The fact that he’s here is a good thing. It’s about time,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show.

It is anticipated that a North-only backstop will be one of solutions discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson today in fresh attempts to break the Brexit deadlock.

They wanted to understand one thing and were nervous about two things, my American visitors.

Two groups of pro and anti-Brexit protesters have clashed on Parliament Square in London.