Dara Doyle

In the run-up to the U.K.’s 2016 Brexit referendum, the Irish border barely featured in the debate. Two years on, the question of how to keep the 310-mile (500-kilometer) frontier free of checkpoints and patrols threatens to derail Britain’s plans for an orderly departure from the European Union. How did we get here? And what happens next?

Conall Laverty, who raised over $1 million for his Dublin-based startup, jokes that his mother still wants to know when he’s going to get a real job -- maybe at Google or one of the other technology giants scattered across the city.

Northern Irish politicians blasted the Irish government in a row over fishing rights, saying a “warship” had seized two trawlers.

The traditional fight between the DUP and Sinn Fein barely used to resonate outside Northern Ireland.

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will receive an award in Dublin on Jan. 20 in recognition of the iPhone maker’s 40 years of investment in Ireland.

With one riposte, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald may have changed the course of Irish history.

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AIB Group Plc lost about a quarter of its market value on Thursday, in moves reminiscent of the worst of the 2008 financial crisis. The precise reasons behind the decline remain shrouded in mystery.

In early March, The Big Romance in Dublin was gearing up for the most profitable period of the Irish drinking season. With about 10,000 euros ($10,800) worth of beer in stock, it stood ready for the pint-wielding revelers who flood the city for the St. Patrick’s festival. Then the lockdown hit.

When the lockdown finally ends and global travel resumes, expect a night at hotel to feel rather different.

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar got a hostile reception from Irish farmers last year when he announced he was cutting back on his meat eating partly out of concerns for the environment.

Imagine being stuck at Dublin port for 36 hours, in the dead of winter during a pandemic.

The different pace of rollouts captures the tension within the EU over its comparatively slow approval of Covid-19 shots.

Thirty years ago, during Northern Ireland’s long-running sectarian conflict, gunmen botched an attempt to assassinate a young academic in Belfast.

The trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union will be thrown into question if Britain revokes its commitments to the Northern Ireland protocol, the Irish foreign minister warned.

For years, James Anderson had earned a reputation as the techno-visionary oracle of Edinburgh.

The European Central Bank will increase interest rates “several” more times, according to Chief Economist Philip Lane.

Six years ago, a little-known textile maker called Shandong Ruyi Group embarked on a frantic acquisition spree, openly setting out its goal of becoming China’s version of luxury powerhouse LVMH.

In May 1921, the island of Ireland was split in two, giving rise to Northern Ireland as part of the UK, and to what would become the independent Republic of Ireland. A century later, the idea that reunification could eventually happen has taken on new life. There’s little prospect of a referendum being held in the near future, but shifting demographics, coupled with the forces unleashed by Brexit, suggest a ballot one day is possible — assuming the British government chooses to hold one.

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