LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: All the reaction to the Brexit border deal; What happens next in EU-UK negotiations?

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

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IRELAND: The UK and the EU's joint commitment to the retention of a free-flowing Irish border post-Brexit is "rock solid and cast iron", the Taoiseach has said.

IRELAND: The Democratic Unionists have welcomed the "substantial progress" achieved in the agreement between the UK and EU, but cautioned that much more work was needed on managing the Irish border post-Brexit.

WORLD: Now that the European Commission has agreed that "sufficient progress" has been made on the UK’s EU withdrawal deal, what happens next?

BUSINESS: The pound was trading at six-month highs against the euro as investors celebrated news of a Brexit breakthrough in Brussels.

IRELAND: The 40-year-old woman found dead in a doorway on a Cork city centre street has been remembered as a “kind, nurturing lady”, who died in the same spot where her aunt passed away seven years ago.

IRELAND: Temperatures will plummet to minus two today as Met Éireann issued two weather warnings.

ANALYSIS: Stephen Hawking has warned of the dangers of ‘effective AI’. It needs to be governed before it gets too big, too quickly, writes former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt.

SPORT: Ronan O’Gara is set to join the TV3 panel for Six Nations 2018. In his Irish Examiner column today, he wrote that Joey Carbery won’t be leaving Leinster anytime soon.

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— The National (@ScotNational) December 6, 2017

VIRAL: A newspaper in Scotland has asked its readers to design a front page describing what the impact of Brexit will be and the replies are brilliant.

FEATURES: Ask Audrey's column: C’mere what’s the story with a one-night scoring pass?

VIRAL: How many Taoiseach mugs does Leo Varadkar own? It seems Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is single-handedly keeping the Irish sock and mug companies in business.