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The latest round of Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU begins on Monday, with officials from the two sides due to discuss the implications for the Belfast Agreement, the Border and the Common Travel Area between Ireland and the UK over four days of meetings in Brussels. However, substantive discussions on the future of the Irish Border will not take place until the next phase of the negotiations as the EU side will not discuss the future relationship between the union and the UK until it is satisfied with the progress of the separation agreement governing citizens’ rights and Britain’s exit bill. London sources say the British will push the EU to be “more flexible” in its approach

Standing on Dollymount Strand on a gorgeously warm end-of-summer Saturday afternoon I get a text message from a colleague which drains the colour from my face. The news is both unexpected and cataclysmic and, at first, I think it is a cruel joke. I stop in my tracks, sand swirling around my feet, and immediately go online to see if what I have been told is the fake news I hope it is. It isn’t. It is just a cruel twist of fate. Chelsea have conceded three goals against Burnley in the first half of the first game of the English Premier League football season. Now, I don’t support Chelsea. In fact, if anything, I loathe Chelsea and all their Russian oligarch’s money. But the spine of my fantasy

Jennifer Gannon Duran Duran: Ordinary World Seeing pop acts at festivals is always a moment of liberation. After an afternoon of angsty guitar bands, the sea of upturned noodles, the white-hot oblivion of various too-cool techno-bleats, sometimes I just want to go home. My home is within these giant unifying choruses. I want to strip off a layer of skin and reveal the glitter in my blood and dance to the superficial glam flashness of Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf. I want to marvel at how John Taylor’s cheekbones have been frozen in time and Nick Rhodes’s eyebrows still arch with feigned boredom. I want to listen to Simon Le Bon’s unique timbre: a half-drunk town crier - the foghorn of my childhood.

Jennifer Gannon Duran Duran: Ordinary World Seeing pop acts at festivals is always a moment of liberation. After an afternoon of angsty guitar bands, the sea of upturned noodles, the white-hot oblivion of various too-cool techno-bleats, sometimes I just want to go home. My home is within these giant unifying choruses. I want to strip off a layer of skin and reveal the glitter in my blood and dance to the superficial glam flashness of Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf. I want to marvel at how John Taylor’s cheekbones have been frozen in time and Nick Rhodes’s eyebrows still arch with feigned boredom. I want to listen to Simon Le Bon’s unique timbre: a half-drunk town crier - the foghorn of my childhood.

A series of speeches delivered by the then taoiseach, Charles Haughey in the United States on Northern Ireland in April 1988 angered the British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, according to previously confidential files released today in Belfast. The documents also reveal Haughey’s suspicions that the British were conspiring with his domestic political opponents against him, only to be told he “should forget this fantasy” by the British ambassador. The American speeches were the subject of a follow-up visit to Mr Haughey by the British ambassador, Sir Nicholas Fenn, on April 26th, 1988. In a report to the British foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Fenn noted that the visit was at Haughey’s

A Colobus monkey who made a daring escape from his habitat at Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork earlier this week has been safely rescued. Cheeky Chops escaped from the wildlife park on Tuesday. He returned to the car park outside the facility on Friday having spent at least one night sleeping in a public toilet. Roisin Fitzgerald, Marketing Manager at Fota Wildlife Park, said they finally managed to coax the monkey down from a tree in the car park Friday afternoon. “After a few hours of coaxing with his favourite treats of boiled potatoes, avocado, peanuts and bananas the rangers were able to entice him into a secure holding pen within the Wildlife Park grounds. “Cheeky Chops has now been safely

Donald Trump came into office as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling and after seven months things have not improved. He has already passed the mark for the lowest approval rating for a first-year president. Mr Trump's current approval rating of 34% is worse than Barack Obama's ever was. Mr Trump's early unpopularity defies some longstanding US patterns. Dives in approval are often tied to outside forces, such as a sluggish economy. Americans also tend to be optimistic about new leaders and typically cut presidents some slack in their early days in office. Gallup's most recent weekly estimate shows only 37% of Americans now view Mr Trump positively. Gallup's shorter,