Despite Donald Trump’s by now familiar bluster in the face of opposition to his plans, House speaker Nancy Pelosi stood firm — and won, writes Elizabeth Drew

I HAVE to be honest here. I live in the country and for that sole reason I’m not really in the way of owning an electric car, says Declan Colley.

WHAT are you dressing up as for Halloween? Our extended household is using it as an opportunity for catharsis, a high colonic for the head, for flushing out all the hideousness that’s been flowing in front of our weary eyes so far this year (not that this year is near over, but we’ve had ten months of crap), writes Suzanne Harrington.

WHAT are you dressing up as for Halloween? Our extended household is using it as an opportunity for catharsis, a high colonic for the head, for flushing out all the hideousness that’s been flowing in front of our weary eyes so far this year (not that this year is near over, but we’ve had ten months of crap), writes Suzanne Harrington.

Ever heard the one about the First Lady who went for a walk?

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are sharply disagreeing with Republicans on the panel who say they do not see any evidence of collusion or coordination between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.

It’s one of life’s great pleasures, listening to ideas with which you profoundly disagree, writes Terry Prone

President Donald Trump questioned the impartiality of the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, who is planning to retire from the bureau in the months ahead after being buffeted by attacks over alleged anti-Trump bias in the agency.

In sports, as in politics, we seem to have reached a tipping point. Now we are righteously angry, writes Eimear Ryan

Light reads, accessible history and gripping novels are championed by the people we asked to recommend their best reads of 2017, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

"Thank you, Hillary, for being a constant beacon of strength, hope, and determination for me and millions of other young women,”

Since reading Hillary Clinton’s memoir I’ve been giving a lot of thought to ‘difficult women’, writes Louise O’Neill.

US president Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to take a swing at his rival Hillary Clinton.

President Donald Trump has taken another swipe at political foe Hillary Clinton with a retweet which shows him hitting a golf shot which in the next frame shows a mock-up of the ball apparently hitting his former rival for the White House.

Clinton’s new book, ‘What Happened’, is an angry look at her US presidential election loss and is at odds with her ambition to nurture Democrat leaders, says Bette Browne.

 Driving through Cork city on my way to a yoga studio, there are big colourful signs everywhere. Cork Pride 2017. Wow.

A book of condolence in solidarity with those affected by the Manchester terror attack will open in Dublin today.

The uncle of a 15-year-old Irish girl who survived the Manchester terror attack believes a guardian angel was watching over her.

President-elect Donald Trump has hit back at Meryl Streep, who made the Republican a big topic of her speech when accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.

Sharp divisions over Donald Trump's election as US president have sparked uncertainty about who will participate at his inauguration.

Donald Trump's top aides have said the US president-elect is not ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate the billionaire property mogul.

Forget about the Christmas movies – these days it’s the big budget ads we want to see, writes Suzanne Harrington

Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that "millions" voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House.

Being a feminist right now feels foolish and pointless. It is not what we would want for our daughters, writes Alison O’Connor

Your letters, your views.

Melania Trump has ditched the sexy sheath dresses for a more sedate approach, writes Carolyn Moore

An American passport holder, Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan was entitled to vote in Tuesday’s Presidential Election but chose not to.

It sounds like a bad political novel, but it’s real, writes Michael Moynihan in Lisbon

This man will be missed.

Hours after Donald Trump was elected president-elect of the US, the man currently in the role has posted a message of hope for everyone else, and perhaps a hint of what his time in office has been like.

It was the forgotten people who elected Donald Trump to the most powerful political office in the free world. Irish officials would do well to heed such warnings, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

Sarah Paulson, the actress well-known for her starring roles in American Horror Story, has performed a dramatic reading of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The FBI’s latest intervention and opinion polls on the eve of the US election favouring Hillary Clinton have soothed jitters of financial markets which deeply fear the unknown quantity of a Donald Trump presidency, and sent world stock markets soaring.

At the Rockefeller Centre in midtown Manhattan, the resident NBC news station has completed its traditional election night take-over of the ice rink and covered it with a giant map of the states that will light up blue or red as each result is declared.