Photographs have surfaced on social media of climbers flocking to climb the sacred indigenous Uluru, or 'Ayers Rock' in Australia, sparking controversy.

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The Government has failed to rule out the possibility of setting up special warehouses to take customs checks away from the border in a no-deal Brexit scenario.

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"I’m not sure Leo Varadkar said all of that."

Any hope of a last-ditch deal to prevent a crash-out Brexit is vanishing after EU leaders warned British prime minister Theresa May they will offer her nothing in make-or-break talks today and tomorrow — telling Brexiteers they have “a special place in hell”.

The DUP’s Brexit spokesperson Sammy Wilson MP is adamant that his party’s message to British Prime Minister Theresa May is that the current withdrawal agreement is not acceptable.

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Latest: Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said the backstop needs to "come out" of Thresea May's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in order to allow Brexit.

Ahead of Sunday's gathering, Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez demanded last-minute changes to the deal despite Mrs May's efforts to win him round.

There is hardly an issue on which opponents are so immoveably, so viscerally in conflict as Brexit.

"I can't give guarantees on behalf of the Republic of Ireland but I cannot for a moment believe that they will want to put in place administrative systems which we don't put in place."

A consultation on the North’s tourism taxes promised by the British Government as part of its Westminster deal with the DUP has been launched by the Chancellor.

Ian Paisley accused the bloc of trying to blackmail and bully Britain as he asked an impassioned question in the Commons.

The DUP want to build a bridge connecting Ireland with Scotland.

Peter Robinson’s reputation for cowardice was shown up by his backfired “invasion” of a small village on the Irish border, Northern Ireland’s most senior civil servant said at the time.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is refusing to budge on a crucial deal for a frictionless border and special status for the North after unionists slammed the brakes on the planned EU-UK Brexit agreement.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is refusing to budge on a crucial deal for a frictionless border and special status for the North after unionists slammed the brakes on the planned EU-UK Brexit agreement.

At breakfast, a deal was firmly on the Brexit table. But by lunch, the two-course meal had suddenly gone off.

The UK Government has said talks to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland remain a priority, despite scepticism from a senior Democratic Unionist that they are a "waste of time".

The DUP and Sinn Fein are at loggerheads over who to blame for public spending cuts in the North

A victims' campaigner who challenged Brexit in the British Supreme Court has called on the DUP to support the wishes of the majority in Northern Ireland to remain in the EU.

There is next to no environmental law that did not originate in the European Union, writes Victoria White

The winner of the controversial multi-billion euro Project Eagle Nama deal paid two firms heavily involved in a previous bid stg£15m for help "accessing" Finance Minister Michael Noonan and "the Northern Ireland executive".

Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has insisted he had “no involvement” in the appointment of businessman Frank Cushnahan to a Nama advisory group linked to Project Eagle.

The articulate Waterford Fine Gael TD has long clashed with his boss, and Nama’s Northern Ireland loan portfolio is just the latest flashpoint, writes Daniel McConnell.

The trial of an evangelical preacher accused of branding Islam “heathen” and “satanic” has opened with gospel music being played in a Belfast courtroom.

As Peter Robinson prepares to step down as Northern Ireland’s first minister and leader of his Democratic Unionist Party, the race is on to succeed him.

As a former banker with double-figures boardroom and advisory posts on his CV, Frank Cushnahan has a reputation as one of the best-connected businessmen in Northern Ireland.

IT WAS back to the future yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee hearing. Strange goings on at the interface of business and politics. Middlemen pulling in serious bucks. Offshore accounts. Apparent conflict of interest.

The key players of the Nama scandal

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Finance Minister Michael Noonan shot down a request by a US law firm for a closed and exclusive sale of Nama’s €5.7bn Northern loan book, after Sammy Wilson, the North’s finance minister, forwarded the company’s request to him and said it had introduced him to interested investors.

The chairman of Nama has been accused of “failing to protect the public interest” amid calls for an all-island inquiry into alleged payoffs that were part of the agency’s biggest ever property deal.

A total of €1.7bn in capital has been invested in Irish real estate this year, including direct investment of €800m.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has described Tony Benn as a true friend of the Irish people following his support for a united Ireland.

Let us hope the prophets of doom are wrong and the storm clouds are not gathering across the North but there is little to suggest that everything is rosy in the garden and the Good Friday Agreement is safe in the custody of the DUP and Sinn Féin, two parties that have the capacity to either make it work but apparently are more interested in wrecking it.

Plans for a cross-border bridge at the site of one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles have been dealt another blow after funding from Europe was pulled.

Two British Army soldiers have been photographed standing in front of the Union Flag making Nazi-style salutes.

Senior members of the Democratic Unionist Party, including a minister in the power-sharing executive, crowded into the public gallery at a Belfast court as a party colleague was accused of posting an offensive Facebook message.

A Democratic Unionist councillor has appeared in court in the North charged in connection with a comment she posted on Facebook.

The North's Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has accused the Irish Government of “stealing” UK tax revenue.