This time four years ago when the idea of President Donald Trump seemed as daft as the possibility of Brexit political strategist Stephen Bannon came to public attention. His influence was significant.

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

Hopes are growing for a Brexit deal following breakthrough talks between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson, with both leaders saying they can “see a pathway” to agreement before the October 31 deadline.

If Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe felt the ground moving under his feet as he delivered Budget 2020 in the Dáil chamber yesterday, as he surely must have, he gave no indication that that intrusion would distract him unduly. Neither did Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

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.

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.

Boris Johnson’s in-house Machiavelli, Dominic Cummings, may not have written the script for any of the Mission Impossible fantasies though his reputation — in some quarters at least — suggests he might easily throw one together over a quiet weekend.

Failing to get Brexit right risks people being killed in Northern Ireland, a Tory former Cabinet minister has warned.

Last February, the President of the European Council, Donal Tusk, said on Twitter: “I’ve been wondering what the special place in Hell looks like, for those who promoted #Brexit, without a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely.”

Boris Johnson has insisted progress is being made in Brexit talks with Brussels and the chances of an agreement have risen – but the European Union said a no-deal outcome remained a “distinct possibility”.

There seems to be a strengthening correlation between the impact Brexit might have on our lives and the growing public disinterest in how this fiasco has evolved to become something far more divisive and sinister than anything in play when less than half of Britain voted in June 2016.

All the signs are that the British government is welcoming Armageddon with open arms, writes Fergus Finlay

Escalating tensions between Dublin and London; the growing prospect of a disorderly British EU exit; and a precarious Budget are some of the headaches faced by the Government with the latest Brexit crisis.

The conventional wisdom among many Brexit opponents has been that the UK’s new prime minister is “doing a Varoufakis” and will be crushed in similar fashion.

Many businesses here which survived the initial slump in sterling may not survive another.

Is it too much to hope that politicians and civil servants, when they’re not busy using the Leinster House internet resource for essential research on high-end sex dolls, Germany’s gay demi-monde, lingerie, horse racing, and gambling, might turn their attention to what could be at work in the mind of Dominic Cummings?

Jeremy Corbyn must expose Boris Johnson’s Trump-deal Brexit and put forward Labour’s plan to end the interminable Brexit ordeal immediately, suggests Yanis Varoufakis.

The former head of the UK's Vote Leave campaign has branded David Davis "thick as mince", as he warned that a provision in the Brexit Secretary's so-called Great Repeal Bill would allow British ministers to cave in to EU demands at the last minute.

Pro-Brexit campaigners have offered a €66m prize to any voter who can correctly predict every result of the European football championships in a novel bid to engage people with the debate.