For more than two years, British prime minister Theresa May insisted that her country would leave the European Union at 11pm on March 29 next. On the record, from the dispatch box in the House of Commons, she said it 108 times.

Theresa May’s leadership hangs by threads after her Brexit withdrawal deal fell to another historic defeat, says Andrew Hammond.

Her gamble on a general election last year was unnecessary.

There were two significant political announcements yesterday and though it may seem slightly skewed to compare one with the other, or to suggest that the long-term success of each proposal is as important as the other, that is the case — especially as, in our increasingly connected world, one is unlikely to be realised without the support of the other.

European Union negotiators have floated a tentative Brexit plan to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland and to give Britain stronger guarantees that a customs border would not be needed along the Irish Sea, the Financial Times said yesterday.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and European Council president Donald Tusk have ridiculed Britain’s latest Brexit stand-off solution, saying Theresa May’s plan to solve the issue is “having your cake and eating it” and “an illusion”.

When the history of the Brexit debacle comes to be written, and depending on who writes it, the assertion by Britain’s then justice secretary, Michael Gove, in June 2016, that “people in this country have had enough of experts” may be recognised as a call to the basest instincts of an uncertain, unnerved electorate longing for a return to the imagined magnificence offered by the catchall deception called “sovereignty”.

IT seems a core human instinct — though not quite a core belief — that things can get better; we seem to always imagine that faraway reindeer have longer antlers.

Northern Ireland's political leaders will later hold talks with the British Prime Minister on the ongoing powersharing crisis at Stormont.

It is up to the UK to decide whether there is a good Brexit deal — or even if the country decides to leave the European Union at all, Donald Tusk has told MEPs.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has promised to work “might and main” to protect homeowners from increases in local property tax rates.

Daniel McConnell reports on Leo Varadkar’s meeting with Theresa May in Downing Street. 

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has invited British Chancellor Philip Hammond to Dublin in the autumn to further discuss the impact of Brexit on the two economies.

AT a moment when the air crackles with indignation over the gender balance of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s first cabinet and his chorus line of junior ministers, it may seem incongruous to speculate about which of two powerful women, each at a career pinnacle, will resign, be ushered gently towards the door, or simply be fired, first. 

Leo Varadkar’s first visit to London as Taoiseach was an occasion on which to show authority, writes Michael Clifford

Gerard Howlin believes Leo Varadkar was right to know Fianna Fáil would not pull the house down over her appointment to the Court of Appeal.

Brexit negotiations dominated Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s meeting with UK prime minister Theresa May with both agreeing that a “seamless and frictionless” border is needed.

For the tourist Taoiseach, getting a peak inside the famous black door was in his own words “a little thrill”.

From the moment the exit poll was announced at 10pm on Thursday, and it was apparent that Theresa May was about to lose her Commons majority, the potential role for the Democratic Unionist Party took centre stage.

WHEN British Prime Minister Theresa May cast aside her assurances that she would not call an election, her opponents, and a growing number who are happy to be numbered in their ranks, accused her of trying to stage a coup.

Theresa May has dismissed claims she is at loggerheads with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker over her Brexit negotiating strategy as just "Brussels gossip".

FORMER British prime minister David Cameron is being criticised for rewarding the “old boys network” in the honours list he submitted with his resignation. But one of the names on the list that has gotten most mentions, universally snide ones actually, is a woman, writes Alison O’Connor.

Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, has promised a “practical solution” for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, following Britain’s exit from the European Union.

ENGLAND: The top cats in Whitehall have apparently ceased hostilities after a “fracas”, new Commons Leader David Lidington has reassured MPs.

A senior Labour MP says he suspects Jeremy Corbyn voted for Brexit after the party leader declined to tell him which way he cast his ballot.

Britain would not be able to strike a free trade deal with the US “any time soon” if it leaves the EU, as Washington’s focus would be on reaching agreement with the European Union, said US President Barack Obama.

A British peer and former 10 Downing St adviser to Gordon Brown, Wilf Stevenson, has just bought the West Cork home of former AIB chief executive David Duffy, Glebe House, for close to €2.5m.

British PM dismisses opponents’ claim that vote to leave could lead to negotiations on better deal for UK

THERE are always two sides to every story but correspondence released yesterday by Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave suggests that one side of the story around the decision to take the event out of Ireland may not be particularly impressive or inspiring. 

Suspected associates of the Tunisian beach gunman have been arrested, as it was announced that Britain will observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the massacre.

By defying history to pull off a spectacular election victory David Cameron may yet have set in train events that will soon consign the United Kingdom itself to the history books.

Will Number 10 Downing Street be home to the Con Man or the Squatter tomorrow night?

The two men battling to be Britain’s next prime minister traded insults in the last hours of the too-close-to-call campaign by branding each other a conman and a squatter.

The good news for Labour is Ed Miliband is not nearly as strange in person as he often comes across on TV.

David Cameron’s general election campaign ran into its first setback within hours of his visit to Buckingham Palace to inform the Queen of the dissolution of parliament as a respected economic think tank challenged his claim that a Labour victory would result in tax rises of more than £3,000 (€4,100) for every working family.

Sinn Féin is calling on the Taoiseach to engage directly with the British Prime Minister in relation to the political impasse in the North.

If EU leaders back Jean- Claude Juncker for the post of European Commission president this week it would be "flicking two fingers" at voters across the continent who had expressed concerns about Brussels, said British MP Iain Duncan Smith.

AFTER ALL the attention lavished on him by the Queen it was a bit of a royal comedown for President Higgins to get just a drive-by handshake from the crown prince of British politics, Boris Johnson.

A paralympic skier and former soldier challenged David Cameron about being denied compensation for his war injuries during a reception for the Sochi Games team.

An unknown artist has made a spectacular breakthrough by producing a painting fit for the walls of David Cameron’s Downing Street offices.

The first ever State visit by an Irish president to Britain will take place next April, when Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina, will be guests of Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.