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By Suzanne Pender CHAMPION ploughmen proved their skill and expertise are down to so much more than machinery as they turned the clock back to compete using…
By Suzanne Pender THE wonderful skills and expertise of world-class ploughmen will be put to the test at a charity vintage ploughing event in Clonmore…
Schoolchildren strike for action on climate change; Brexit deadline approaching; Dublin losing its cultural cachet; Ireland's UN youth delegates;
BREXIT AND THE BORDER The October 31 deadline is fast approaching and yet we seem to be as far as ever from agreeing on a deal for Brexit. The question of the Irish border continues to be a bone of contention between the Irish and British governments, and in recent weeks, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has described British proposals to solve the issue as “fanciful.” In a speech that the second most senior person in the Irish government gave at a breakfast hosted by the Irish Consulate in New York, he expressed frustration that Ireland was spending “hundreds of millions” to prepare f...