A British request for a Brexit deadline extension as well as consequences of a chaotic no-deal will be discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and French President Emmanuel Macron today.

At the height of the debate about opening up Croke Park to ‘foreign’ games, a hurling aficionado of my acquaintance offered up a soundbite for the ages.

Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic French fans celebrated the return of their World Cup winning football team yesterday, jumping and chanting “We are the champions” as their bus paraded down the Champs Elysees before a special presidential reception.

In a month’s time, the result of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment will be known.

The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was held in police custody yesterday for questioning on allegations that Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya funded for his 2007 election campaign.

Peter Jackson discusses ’What’s Hot and What’s Not’ in this weekend’s review. 

French president Emmanuel Macron is using instability in the Middle East to cast himself in the role of honest broker and position France as Europe’s top player, says Maysam Behravesh.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar insists Ireland’s tax rate for internet giants based in this country remains “a national competency” and must not be decided on an individual country-by-country basis by anyone else in the EU.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is currently holding talks with French president Emmanuel Macron in a meeting set to be dominated by Brexit and a fresh row over Ireland's coproration tax rate.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar travels to Paris today to hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Brexit and the future of Europe.

French president Emmanuel Macron's dog Nemo has interrupted a meeting his master was having with members of his government by urinating against a fireplace in the Elysee Palace.

US president Donald Trump has congratulated Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on his “great victory” in becoming Fine Gael leader.

WHEN Yip Harbug — real name Isidore Hochberg — and Harold Arlen wrote ‘Over the Rainbow’ for The Wizard of Oz in 1939 they were writing about America. 

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Edouard Philippe, a relatively unknown 46-year-old politician, as prime minister.

Latest: Emmanuel Macron has been sworn in as France's new president in a ceremony at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.

In the face of Russian cyber attacks and Moscow’s backing for Le Pen, Guy Verhofstadt argues that Europe’s only defence is for Macron supporters to come out and vote. 

Driving through Sophia Antipolis, France’s Silicon Valley on the Riviera, there was a strong welcome for the news Emmanuel Macron had topped the poll in the first round of the presidential elections.

Le Pen has transformed the face of politics in France, writes Christine Ockrent

Marine Le Pen calls Emmanuel Macron "a hysterical, radical 'Europeanist'."

The British wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon is facing preliminary charges over well-paid parliamentary jobs that investigators suspect she never performed.

A WEEKEND opinion poll shows Sinn Féin is enjoying its strongest support in over a year. 

Take a quick look at the main metrics and it appears that the year just gone was a vintage one. The unemployment rate dropped by over 1%.

French president François Hollande’s hairdresser is paid a gross salary by the state of €9,895 a month.

A knife-wielding attacker has stabbed a senior police officer to death outside his home in a suburb of Paris.

David Cameron has promised to set out a “comprehensive” strategy for tackling Islamic State (IS) on Thursday that will include British air strikes on the terrorists’ bases in Syria.

Russia continued to bomb Syria for a third day yesterday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than Islamic State (IS) fighters it said it was targeting.

Embarrassed by leaked conversations of three successive French presidents and angered by new evidence of uninhibited American spying, France demanded answers from the Obama administration and called for an intelligence “code of conduct” between allies.

Faith Ryan takes the chair to suggest iconic choices to give your home designer appeal.

Security authorities are monitoring reports that Ireland is being used as a training ground for jihadists, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said, as he was among 50 world leaders and senior figures leading a demonstration in Paris following the killing of 17 people last week.

Nicolas Sarkozy is making a political comeback in France.

Francois Hollande’s image took a new knock yesterday with publication of a tell-all book in which ex-partner Valerie Trierweiler accused the French President of describing the poor as "the toothless".

Ceremonies to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day are drawing thousands of visitors to the cemeteries, beaches and stone-walled villages of Normandy, including some of the few survivors of the largest sea-borne invasion ever mounted.

As heads rolled over the European Parliament election results in several countries, French president François Hollande went on TV to respond to the shock victory of far-right Front National.

A close adviser to François Hollande has resigned after allegations about an alleged conflict of interest and his extravagant lifestyle, in a fresh blow to the beleaguered French president.

French president François Hollande appealed to foreign business leaders to invest in his country yesterday, offering them simpler and more stable tax policies as his unpopular government tries to spur growth and create jobs.

THIS time it’s not the White House that’s embroiled in a sexual scandal, it’s the Elysée Palace. Location apart, there’s nothing to beat a full-dress political scandal except, that is, a full-undress one.

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

We all know about the French President Francois Hollande.

French President François Hollande faced fresh scrutiny over his affair with an actress as the magazine that broke the story published claims he started seeing her before his 2012 election.

Francois Hollande planned to announce to the world’s press last Tuesday that he and Valerie Trierweiler had officially split, but his plans were scrapped after his partner was hospitalised, according to reports.

François Hollande’s partner Valerie Trierweiler is “ready to forgive” the French president for having a secret affair with a 41-year old actress, but wants “clarification” about his future intentions, it was reported.

A 67-year-old driver tried to ram through a gate of the French presidential palace yesterday, officials said. He was arrested and treated for light injuries.