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Boris Johnson will always change his policy to suit his needs and anyone can be sacrificed to save himself but the latest corruption stories in Westminster will not be forgotten by his MPs.

Micheál Martin's comments at Bodenstown indicated that even a man as averse to a row as the Taoiseach recognises that the EU are now putting on the hard hats in discussions with the UK.

There is no honour, only expediency, in Lord David Frost's manoeuvres on the Northern Ireland protocol but that is all anyone can expect from Boris Johnson's government.

The Donegal fishing business Atlantic Dawn has survived the sudden death of its founder and increasing environmental scrutiny of large trawlers. Yet Karl McHugh, the second-generation leader of the group, warns that it is now under severe threat after Irish mackerel quotas were sacrificed in the trade deal between the EU and the UK.

There have been many quiet heroes on the way to peace on this island. A driver called Brian O'Driscoll was one. Now Ireland needs diplomats to bring commonsense.

The DUP has made an astute assessment of the damage the protocol is doing to the political weather, but the party has failed to acknowledge the reason for the climate change.

The UK and the EU remain at loggerheads over how to manage trade around Northern Ireland after Brexit, yet current issues were first raised four years ago and solutions agreed in 2019. In his book, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier explains how we came to this, but also reveals his personal outlook on Ireland, partition and why peace was his top priority.

The EU is generally seen to have had Ireland’s back until the very end of Brexit negotiations. As they stare into quota cuts and supply chain disruption, fishermen and seafood processors feel they are the exception.

With Arlene Foster resigning, the DUP stands at a fork in the road. The danger is they burn the road to the ground, says Sarah Creighton.

Comments allegedly made this week by Boris Johnson were a callous dismissal of the lives lost to Covid-19, but other failings could bring down the UK's prime minister.