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The next EU Council summit on December 10th and 11th will be the final opportunity to agree a budget for recovery for the EU. Standing in...

Despite the power that she wields on behalf of Irish people across the world it would be interesting to see how you get on in the...

Having to spend the weekend in Belgium has its upsides. I spent last Sunday in the battlefields in and around Ypres in southern Belgium....

It would be fair to say that there is a bit of a height disparity between myself and my wife. I am over 6 feet tall while she is just...

If the furore around Golfgate had any upside it was that it underlined how fortunate Ireland was to hold the powerful Trade portfolio of...

This is not an April Fool’s joke. From today, Vladimir Putin will play an enhanced role in Irish Foreign, Defence and Security policy....

Ireland fights with all other Member States for influence across the EU institutions. The European Parliament is no different. Last week,...

The proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D for short) mandates companies to ensure their value chain does not...

In recent months, I have been working on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D for short). It’s a new EU law that...

Four related things happened last week. If not already obvious, I will explain the connection at the end. But in summary, for those of us...

I spoke in the European Parliament last week on Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean and the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine...

May I be the first to call on you to resign. These were the words texted to me by a close friend on hearing that I had been appointed...

While Sean Lemass fulfilled his great talents in the service of the nation, we will never know what sort of public life his older...

I read somewhere this week, “two bad winters and we get Hitler”. Someone was trying to predict the damage the energy crisis will do to...