Update: Bernie Kelly has been located safe and well.

The political sparring plays out in the media between Leo Varadkar and Mary Lou McDonald.

Robertson revealed that he will be seeking the SNP’s nomination to stand in Edinburgh Central at the 2021 election.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has found her mojo. But even she, in private, must be surprised at how well her party appears to be doing in this general election campaign, writes Alison O’Connor

Nothing will change my belief that an elected British government is democratic and the EU bloc is a doomed dystopia, says David Kernek

It is difficult to know how to regard a coincidence unfolding this week.

The Indian Ambassador to Ireland, Sandeep Kumar, paid tribute to MacSwiney in City Hall as his embassy staged a showcase of his country’s food, dance and culture to mark India’s Republic Day.

We are confronted by a US presidential second-term election cycle. We all must contend too with various interests. Do we have in play a version of ‘operation boot’? The 1952 US/UK regime-change operation in Iran. And do people regionally also view the late, recently murdered Major General Qasem Soleimani as an Iranian Che Quevara? Would Iran’s supreme Ayatollah be viewed as an Iranian Fidel Castro? How annoying for a rightist US administration: a Cuba in the Middle East. How much more death and devastation will flow out of our fossil-fuel dependency and the military powers of the main players, the chief one being the US?

Putting forward the proposals at Westminster, former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain pointed out they had all-party support in the province, including the DUP and Sinn Féin.

The Irish and UK Governments have published an outline deal to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland, and urged the parties to sign up to it.

The UK’s departure from the EU will be less fractious if its policies stay close to EU policy, but if it prioritises deals with, say, the US, disputes will be inevitable, writes John Bruton.

What do an award-winning street in Cork, an oak tree in Ardpatrick, and a church in Blackrock have in common?

How the football world will look in another decade...

Since devolution in Northern Ireland collapsed in January 2017, things have been operating north of the border in a political limbo. That may be about to change.

The political ground has shifted in the North since last Thursday’s election.

The British Prime Minister will welcome the more than 100 newly-elected colleagues, many of them from former Labour areas across the north and Midlands, to the House of Commons on Monday.

It may seem churlish to begin consideration of the spectacular Tory election victory in Washington but it seems unavoidable.

The British Prime Minister broke with a tradition set by his recent predecessors and voted at Methodist Central Hall, near Downing Street, at around 8.15am.

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Sinn Féin’s Westminster abstentionist policy, the lack of an Assembly in the North, and absence from 2016 government formation talks have created a bad smell, writes Daniel McConnell

Northern Ireland is being dragged out of the European Union into a “little Englander nightmare,” Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill has said.

While the economy and how we live have changed utterly, Labour’s template hasn’t at all, writes Gerard Howlin

Former submariner Steve Aiken has been confirmed as the new Ulster Unionist Party leader.

In the short-term, the deal is unlikely to help the UK avoid a technical recession.

Almost three and a half years after the Brexit referendum the uncertainty continues.

The US president staged a major intervention by calling for the Prime Minister to team up with the Brexit Party leader to form an “unstoppable force” for the December 12 vote.

It would be the first December British election in 100 years and there would be a five-week campaign by parties up to polling day.

The EU 27 accepted the ‘principle of an extension’ and their work will continue in the ‘coming days’.

Over the past three years the whole Brexit fiasco has been a total circus, but the circus has undoubtedly become even more bizarre over the past week.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told his TDs and senators he believes British prime minister Boris Johnson could win an election if his campaign is based on the new EU-UK Brexit deal.

Irish shares fell sharply as investors took fright as British prime minister Boris Johnson said he would seek an election if MPs fail to back his new Brexit deal in the coming days.

Irish shares fell sharply as investors took fright as Boris Johnson said he would seek an election if MPs fail to back his new Brexit deal in the coming days.

Sterling held most its gains against the euro and the dollar yesterday even as analysts saw the dangers of UK prime minster’s Boris Johnson’s new Brexit deal becoming ensnared in the Commons.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has appealed to British MPs to back the new Brexit deal as he conceded an extension is still possible if the agreement is once again rejected by Westminster.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said his party continues to hold firm and will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

British prime minister Boris Johnson has just 24 hours to win enough MP support to drag the Brexit deal over the line — or face the prospect of the DUP tearing up the agreement just as it has been reached.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a “great new” Brexit deal had been agreed “that takes back control”.

European Council president Donald Tusk has said the "punchline" in the Brexit deal drama will be whether British prime minister Boris Johnson "has done what he should" and passes the agreement through the House of Commons.

Waiting for the Brexit finale has been a bit like sitting in a dentist’s surgery for three years — scared of the worst while hoping for the best, yet willing to accept a modicum of discomfort to get it all over with.

Fianna Fáil has criticised Sinn Féin for refusing to take its Westminster seats for crucial Brexit votes.