Flip-flopping is a tool of the trade in the politician’s kitbag, and it’s one that in popular democracies has a long history.

The Taoiseach is to raise concerns around a possible “spiral of tit for tats” in trade between the EU and the US when he meets president Donald Trump this week.

The cancelled Garth Brooks concerts, the 2010 Leinster SFC final, the failed 2023 Rugby World Cup bid and the protracted process to redevelop Casement Park have been cited by GAA director general Páraic Duffy as the major disappointments of his 10-year tenure.

American author George Saunders has been handed this year's Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel.

Ironically, Robert E. Lee would have been against sculptures of himself in full military gear, writes Terry Prone

Arsenal 5 Lincoln 0: The fall-out from that numbing 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League was so great that Arsene Wenger had to watch a video of the game three times just to come to terms with what he had seen.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has suggested Erik Lamela may not play again this season.

Another protest by Arsenal fans who want to see Arsene Wenger replaced has been scheduled - with the manager admitting the opinion of supporters will have a bearing on whether he stays.

In what looks like being his final game for the club, Robbie Brady showed the Norwich supporters what they’ll miss if he finally completes a move to Burnley, providing a typically pinpoint set-piece delivery to create the second goal in the Canaries’ 2-0 Championship victory over Birmingham.

And we still have Southampton v Arsenal to come….

Had anyone suggested on January 31, 2013, the day Barack Obama took America’s presidential oath for the second time that the billionaire developer cum television host Donald Trump — he’s worth $3.7bn — would be the next person asked to offer that loyalty to the American people and their constitution, they would have been, at the very least, ridiculed.

While regarded as historic and celebratory occasions, not all US presidential inaugurations have passed off as the solemn state event desired, as Robert Hume describes.

Non-league leaders Lincoln stunned Sky Bet Championship side Ipswich with a stoppage-time goal from Nathan Arnold to secure a 1-0 win at Sincil Bank in their FA Cup third-round replay — and leave Mick McCarthy’s future at Portman Road bleak.

Part biography, part reflection of Frida Kahlo’s work, this book examines the painter’s life.

How could it fail?

Four-year-old Lincoln Ball is allergic to pretty much "everything outside," and, in particular, has a severe reaction to pollen which means he has to stay indoors during allergy season.

USA: A Massachusetts newspaper publisher is asking the Rolling Stones to return to town 50 years after they cut short a show during a thunderstorm, leading fans to rampage.

THE king of suspense is back and he’s done it again. 

What the world would look like under President Donald Trump? By Matthew Cooper

The Walking Dead is one of the most popular TV programmes on the planet. Its star Andrew Lincoln tells Kate Whiting about life on a show that’s also famously gruesome.

After a years hiatus, where all sorts of behind the scenes goings on almost threatened to derail the series, Fifty Shades Darker will finally arrive in cinemas around Valentines Day 2017 - and the world will go gaga once more.

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Elementary, my dear Watson? Maybe so, as an event next week at University College Cork will hear that the inspiration for Professor James Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, was actually mathematician George Boole.

Families of the 56 football fans who died in the Bradford fire have said the service to mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy was “humbling”.

Dual Cambridgeshire winner Bronze Angel heads a maximum field of 22 for the Betway Lincoln at Doncaster tomorrow.

Zarwaan is proving popular with punters ahead of the Betway Lincoln after Ed Dunlop indicated he was leaning towards running the four-year-old at Doncaster rather than in the Irish equivalent on Sunday.

Gordon Lord Byron is unlikely to take up his engagement at Dundalk on Friday, with a flight to Hong Kong booked for midweek.

Daniel Day-Lewis has been named in a list of the best ever Oscar-winning performances in a biopic by Rolling Stone.

Kristen Bell has given birth to a baby girl.

Multiple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis has been knighted by British loyalty.

Bill Murray says wanting an Oscar feels "like a virus."

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The 'Veronica Mars' actress Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard are expecting their second child together and are looking forward to having a little sibling for their 15-month-old daughter Lincoln.

Daniel Day-Lewis said he was "entirely amazed" to receive a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Perhaps atoning for past sins, Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama 12 Years a Slave best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.