Ireland is facing a fresh Brexit cliff edge with the UK formally leaving the European Union tomorrow night at 11pm, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has warned.

If weekend reports that gardaí are still cancelling penalty points for law-breaking  drivers are true, and there is absolutely no reason to imagine that they are not, then our police force has become a sorry, dysfunctional and, though it is tragic and frightening to have to use these descriptions, a corrupt and out-of-control force.