Theresa May’s battle against her Brexiteers is far from won

We generally tend to be very critical of the Irish political system and frequently criticise our very diluted form of democracy, writes Jim Power.

However, the events of the past two years — and particularly the past week — in the UK make the Irish political system look positively sane and sensible.

If somebody had told me three years ago that the UK political system could turn out to be so dysfunctional, I would not have believed it. But dysfunctional it has turned out to be and since last weekend it has turned into farcical comedy.