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A FINANCIAL technocrat is to form a government of national unity following the fall of another Italian administration and to avoid elections.   It could be a decade ago, when EU internal market commissioner Mario Monti was summoned to head a compliant Italian government at the peak of the eurozone crisis following the great financial crash of 2008. This time it is Mario Draghi, until recently the head of the European Central Bank. Again unelected, he was central to imposing the Europe-wide austerity of the 2010s.  Behind the multifactional political divisions in Italy is another drive suppo...

End of the beginning The Brexit trade deal settles little - the EU will haunt British politics for years to come, writes Paul Demarty So, in the end, Brexit took place - apparently without a hitch. The vast tailbacks at ports did not, in fact, materialise (perhaps because the Covid-19-related logjams had already spooked hauliers). For all the rumblings of discontent at the details of the deal secured by Boris Johnson with the European Union, parliament approved it by a crushing majority, thanks to surprisingly strong discipline in the Tory ranks - and Labour’s support, of course. For Johnso...

The Government of Ireland Act 1920 received the royal assent from King George V a century ago last month. This most consequential of acts resulted in the partition of Ireland. The genesis of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 came in 1919. Home Rule had been on the statute book since 1914 and could no longer be postponed. It was scheduled to come into operation automatically when hostilities were formally concluded with the signature of the last of the peace treaties after the First World War. To prevent this, the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, set up a committee, chaired by Cabinet mem...

Updated The 32CSM has called for 'radical conversations' on the concept of a border poll. In its New Year statement the group reiterates its rejection of the Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland Act 1998 which provides for a referendum to be called if it appears a majority of people in the north would support a united Ireland. However, it acknowledges the changed political landscape brought about by the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. "2021 must be the year where republicans make up this lost ground," it states. "The paradigm shift in political direction brought...

Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley offers apology to those he has 'hurt' with IRA and Leo Varadkar tweets in the Dáil TEXT OF APOLOGY news@leinsterexpress.ie Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley addresses the Dáil in the company of his party leader Mary Lou McDonald ');  '); Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley has apologised in the Dáil for tweets about IRA attacks and the Táinaist Leo Varadkar. The Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee, who sat near his party leader, issued a personal statement in the Dáil on Tuesday, December 15. He first addressed the tweet about the Narrow Water bomb in 19...