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Saturday 23 February 2019

'Britain's Attorney General Geoffrey Cox currently has a key role to play.' Photo: Reuters

Martina Devlin: 'My driving licence will swap a seamless process for a less convenient one ... a metaphor for Brexit in its own...

When I got my first driving licence at 21, it felt like a toehold on the adult world. I remember gazing with awe at that pink and green sheet of paper saying I was valid to drive with it until I was 70 - an impossibly long time away. It would take me into another...

Blueprint: Terminal 2 building at Dublin Airport

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Cathal Guiomard: 'We don't need to reinvent wheel to shield taxpayers from overruns'

How are we to protect taxpayers from cost escalation on public investments that draw from a finite pool of taxpayer funds and squeeze out other plans?

'Despite all the turbulence, Ian Paisley Junior suggests there is a simple answer to this whole Brexit quandary.' Photo: PA

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Gerard O'Regan: 'MPs of an independent mind can free us all from dogma of the Brexiteers'

We have been travelling through a tortuous maze, going to and fro, left and right, backwards and forwards, and all the while seeking the pathway which at its end has the sign: 'Brexit - The Final Act.'

We speak a number of different versions of the English language in this country. Stock photo: PA

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Billy Keane: 'You'd want to be a right lúbán not to enjoy the English language as it's spoken in all corners of our island'

We speak a number of different versions of the English language in this country. Our linguistic log started in Cork city. We travelled from there to west Limerick and ended in John B's, when Derry came to Kerry.

Radicalised: Londoner Shamima Begum (19) and baby son Jarrah during an interview with ITN in a Syrian refugee camp on Wednesday. Photo: PA

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Patricia Casey: Why Britain should take back Isil bride and her baby'

Shamima Begum, the most hated woman in Britain, has not been helping her own cause. She left her...

On guard: An Irish Customs Post stands along the Border in Tully. Photo: Getty

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Donal O'Donovan: 'Fine Gael frozen by fear of 'owning' a hard Border'

What happens at the Border? The first and most important question the Government needed to address, in setting out preparations for a worst-case Brexit, is the one they didn't answer.

Press conference: Richard Bruton TD following the publication of a report on the NBP. Photo: Collins

Comment

Ivan Yates: 'Pull the plug on the State broadband plan before it is one more money pit'

The outcry over the National Children's Hospital (NCH) scandal comes too late to apply either the handbrake or effect any cost reductions to the project. The time for all this scrutiny was 2016, when the project design, procurement procedures and legal tender documents were being finalised.

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Martina Devlin: 'My driving licence will swap a seamless process for a less convenient one ... a metaphor for Brexit in its own...

Cathal Guiomard: 'We don't need to reinvent wheel to shield taxpayers from overruns'

Gerard O'Regan: 'MPs of an independent mind can free us all from dogma of the Brexiteers'

Billy Keane: 'You'd want to be a right lúbán not to enjoy the English language as it's spoken in all corners of our island'

Patricia Casey: Why Britain should take back Isil bride and her baby'

Donal O'Donovan: 'Fine Gael frozen by fear of 'owning' a hard Border'

Ivan Yates: 'Pull the plug on the State broadband plan before it is one more money pit'

Editorial: 'Time to face truth about how we'll manage hard border'

Michael Verney: 'What's the point in sporting victory if you can't celebrate it?'

Letters to the Editor: 'These are fraught times for Ireland – we have to choose which bloc to align ourselves with'

Jennifer Rubin: 'Democrats have a lot to gain from a clean, fair fight in the primaries'

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Kevin Doyle: 'We might have backed wrong horse by placing blind faith in May as she rides towards a cliff'

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Comment

Cathal Guiomard: 'We don't need to reinvent wheel to shield taxpayers from overruns'

Dr Frank Crowley: 'Focus must be on supporting grassroots initiatives to help towns left behind'

Michael Kelly: 'The scapegoating of gay priests for the Church's abuse scandals is dying thanks to saner voices'

Gay Mitchell: 'If UK ministers believe in frictionless borders, they should offer one to Scotland'

Fiona Ness: 'Forget the lavish gifts, Meghan - nipple cream is your new bestie'

Tom Peck: 'Even as MPs quit party, Corbyn is unable to learn from - or even see - his mistakes'

Sinéad Moriarty: 'The mother and father of all debates'

Dan O'Brien: 'People over 65 who are fighting fit should be seen as a valuable resource, not some sort of burden'

Kevin Doyle: 'We are on the right side of the debate, but what about history?'

[TICON-A VIDEO] Paul Williams: 'Hutch faces another kind of life sentence as Kinahan thugs seek more bloody revenge'

Columnists

Ian O'Doherty: 'The strange case of the jihadi bride and Western weakness'

Ian O'Doherty: 'I'll still listen to Ryan Adams... but John Wayne, you're history to me'

They're gaining new popularity, but are boarding schools a prison or a paradise?

Colm McCarthy: 'Punishing Ireland will only send carbon emissions higher still'

Gene Kerrigan: 'We're being governed by D'Unbelievables'

Thy Kingdom come - all the way to London

Ian O'Doherty: 'Nobody has the right to gather outside someone's home'

Ian O'Doherty: 'Hate crime or hoax? Smollett row is fascinating'

Mary Kenny's Brexit cookbook: 'Have you tried only eating food that doesn't have to be transported or imported?'

John Downing: 'Two things we do not need: an early election and further delays in the children's hospital project'

Letters

Letters to the Editor: 'These are fraught times for Ireland – we have to choose which bloc to align ourselves with'

Letters to the Editor: 'Nuns did their best on sex education in a different time'

Letters to the Editor: 'Tory party needs its own split to be free of zealots in ERG'

Letters to the Editor: 'Common sense and a Brexit committee can solve impasse'

Letters to the Editor: 'Church should go back to the spiritualism of its past'

Letters to the Editor: 'We must all be invested in lowering carbon footprints'

Letters to the Editor: 'Do the right thing, minister, and let nurses do their jobs'

Letters to the Editor: 'Children’s Hospital scandal isn’t big enough to sink FG'

Letters to the Editor: 'My answer to the NCH fiasco comes for cut-price fee of €15'

Letters to the Editor: 'If only Hume was still showing way'

Editorial

Editorial: 'Time to face truth about how we'll manage hard border'

Editorial: 'Breakaway MPs more a tremor than necessary earthquake'

Editorial: 'Hope of orderly Brexit lost to narrow party agendas'

Editorial: 'Government has ignored squeezed middle at its peril'

Editorial: 'EU cannot allow us to burn as may fiddles over brexit'

Editorial: 'Spin-obsessed response has made cancer scandal worse'

Editorial: 'Rocking boat irresponsible as we face into Brexit storm'

Editorial: 'Conciliation the best path to resolve nurses' dispute'

Editorial: 'Time has come for the UK and EU to signal a Brexit delay'

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