Today is Super Tuesday in America’s presidential election process.

It’s difficult but not impossible to see this year’s race to the White House becoming a more puerile spectacle than the one that was on show this past week.

Former Labour leader Joan Burton, who lost her seat in the election, has said that Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is most likely to be Taoiseach in a government supported by Fine Gael and the Green Party.

Under discussion was the scheme that allows entrepreneurs from outside Europe to apply for residency permits to set up businesses in Ireland.

A handful of Irish-related shares, including Tullow Oil, Glanbia and Bord Gáis owner Centria, were among the big stock market losers in Europe in the past year. Flutter Entertainment, which owns Paddy Power and Betfair, as well as Ryanair and Kerry Group were, however, among the big winners.

In her last column of 2019 Suzanne Harrington dares to dream ...

The trouble with paying too much attention to social media is that one risks becoming brainwashed with the drivel that passes for discourse on many social media channels.

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.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar found himself in familiar, discomfiting — or at least it should be — territory on Saturday when he had to give a plausible response to the latest challenge to the idea of high standards in high places bedeviling Fine Gael’s long-cherished but now threadbare idea of itself.

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.

It will be bittersweet for Stormzy that his second album arrives the day the British Labour party was confirmed as suffering a historic general election trouncing.

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.

The British Prime Minister broke with a tradition set by his recent predecessors and voted at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, at around 8.15am.

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

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

Sterling held its gains against the euro and the dollar as currency markets surveyed polls suggesting Boris Johnson’s Conservatives were on course to secure a comfortable Commons majority in Thursday’s election.

The United Kingdom goes to the polls on Thursday and the result will have a profound bearing on how that entity will, or can, remain united.

CEO of the biggest private construction company in the UK, Ray O’Rourke is looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that the UK leaving Europe will bring, writes Michael Clifford

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that a leaked document, marked “official, sensitive”, had provided the “cold hard evidence” that Boris Johnson had been “misleading” people about his Brexit deal.

Whether it’s Corbyn or, more likely, Johnson, the fallout from the December 12 vote won’t be anywhere near as disastrous as some are saying, writes Anatole Kaletsky.

Jeremy Corbyn has said governments can act to make terrorist attacks like London Bridge less likely

Police in London have confirmed that officers shot one man during the incident who died at the scene.

Sterling fell yesterday after an opinion poll showed the Conservative Party’s lead is narrowing before the British election next month.

The idea of restructuring an economy with the aim of developing a more environmentally-friendly society isn't new, but is doable in Ireland, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

With three weeks to go, the December 12 UK general election is being billed as the most important in a generation.

Lindsay Hoyle has been elected the new House of Commons Speaker by British MPs.

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.

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

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson are in very similar, but entirely different, positions this morning.

EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan has said there will not be a no-deal Brexit, despite swirling uncertainty about the prospect of a general election in Britain.

The EU 27 accepted the ‘principle of an extension’ and their work will continue in the ‘coming days’.

Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson met this morning to discuss a new programme motion for his Brexit deal, Labour has confirmed.

We’re spending so much time being outraged and so little time taking action.A distracted citizen base is as easy to manipulate as a fearful one, writes Joyce Fegan.

Former Thomas Cook workers have staged noisy protests outside the UK Business Department amid claims they were "abandoned" by the British Government.

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.

Boris Johnson claimed the “paralysed” Parliament will keep “sabotaging” Brexit negotiations as he addressed the Commons.

Gina Miller, who led the legal challenge against the move to prorogue parliament, said outside the Supreme Court that it was a win for parliamentary sovereignty.