More often than not, politics is the art of deliberately fogging up the view while claiming to have cleared the air.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to travel to Liverpool on Friday for a make-or-break showdown meeting with British Prime Minster Boris Johnson.

The Great British Bake Off is back tonight, so Gemma Dunn finds out what’s in store

Boris Johnson has been the UK’s leader for just over a week, but he and his ‘Brexit war cabinet’ have achieved one milestone already: The pound has slumped to its lowest level against the US dollar and the euro since 2017.

The owner of Vauxhall has warned that the car giant will cease production at its Ellesmere Port factory if Brexit makes it unprofitable.

Tell the Reaper Man from the stars above that David Gray is the one we love.

The prospect of the UK not reaching a deal on its departure from the EU has risen in recent weeks, amid tight votes at Westminster and Brussels, expressing opposition to UK prime minister, Theresa May’s latest proposals on customs.

Concerns about the financial sustainability of Cheshire Ireland, breaches of public pay policy at St John of God, and a 1,000% increase in overtime payments to mental health nurses are among the damning findings of a series of HSE internal audits, published yesterday.

Wayne Rooney has said his community service in a garden centre after admitting drink driving is "refreshing" and "relaxing".

Alex Wootton needs no encouragement to grab his chance to impress Munster’s new head coach Johann van Graan and if he continues his current try-scoring run, he will soon find himself in pole position for a Champions Cup wing berth.

In his debut-racing season, Cork racer Luca Allen is finding that life in the fast lane is full of incident. In the weekend’s three races of his British F4 Championship campaign, 13th was his best result in what were his second set of races in the championship.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after a crash which closed a stretch of motorway.

In true nerd style, I came across an interesting documentary the other night about trains and England, and how the rail network shaped that country in terms of commuters, building, culture, architecture.

Sinead has cerebral palsy and Mary provides 24/7 care. Mary gets a half carer’s allowance of €122 per week. She says respite care lost in 2015 has not been adequately replaced.

It’s an image that captures a lifetime — a mother standing at her daughter’s bedside and time slowly ticking by.

Thirteen jobs are to go in Dublin as result of traffic group Rennicks deciding to sell its road-sign manufacturing division to a UK firm.

Irish-born merchant seamen were sent to concentration camps because they refused to work for the Germans, new documents show.

A suspected gangster who was shot dead at a businessman's mansion in England had been locked in a bitter row with someone who used the same nickname as him, his inquest has heard.

Leicester City 3 Derby 1: Leicester provided some much-needed joy for boss Claudio Ranieri with a 3-1 win against east Midlands rivals Derby in the FA Cup.

Manchester United 4 West Ham 1: Jose Mourinho stayed out of sight as Manchester United swept into the EFL Cup semi-finals with a comfortable 4-1 win over West Ham last night.

As many as seven professional football clubs are now embroiled in the growing child sex abuse scandal, with more than 20 ex-players alleging they were victims, the head of the players' union has said.

Jose Mourinho’s ‘anti-football’ tactics prove their worth on Merseyside, writes Chris Hatherall.

A lorry driver has been filmed using two mobile phones simultaneously while driving on a motorway in England.

Sunderland 0 Everton 3

Eleven men have been charged after six cannabis farms worth around £6m were uncovered in England.

The haunting persistence of anti-semitism is what fuels Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. A book on Shylock, its main character, offers an adroit slant on modern Judaism by a master literary stylist, writes Mary Leland.

Chart-topping band The 1975 may have a reputation as a louche bunch of party boys, but Ed Power finds singer Matthew Healy is a hard worker who’s written some great songs

Everton 2 West Ham 3: West Ham captain Mark Noble believes a “special” last-gasp win at Everton capped a pivotal week for the club.

Reading 3 West Brom 1: Chris Brunt insists he could have been blinded after being hit by a coin thrown from West Brom’s own fans.

A FOG of suspicion has long enveloped the creator of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, so much so that James Joyce once prudishly referred to him as ‘Lewd’s Carroll.’

There’s show-stopping suspense ahead with a major find in the offing for the Antiques Roadshow. Kya deLongchamps is mesmerised by this and other tales from the long-running BBC programme.