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The economic and political situations of troubled France and confident Ireland could not be more different. Or are they?

As Trump barrels into another season of purges, pressure campaigns and “peace talks,” voters are left with rally culture, binary politics and little room for a middle ground. But in Maine, a long-shot challenger hints at the appetite for something different.

Where does the medtech company that has consumed the career of Gareth Sheridan until he declared his presidential intentions stand – and who are its Moldovan and Irish backers?

The Maga movement that swept Donal Trump to victory has been seriously splintered by the Epstein sex storm. The scandal has engulfed the Republican party and emboldened the Democrats, writes Siobhán Brett in the US.

The State’s commitment to fund Metrolink before its cost is known illustrates the abandonment of project selection on the basis of their business case.

Political parties’ accounts outline different spending priorities and sources of funding in 2024.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was proving that socialism could work in Spain, but then the lights went out. Now, for the first time since he became prime minister in June 2018, he’s looking vulnerable.

Eighty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel Animal Farm, the writer’s dissection of the drift towards authoritarianism remains as relevant as ever – despite deep personal contradictions.

As Trump’s second term barrels forward with spectacle, tariffs, and foreign posturing, the cracks at home are widening. From food stamps to fighter jets, Siobhan Brett asks: how long can the president sell strength abroad while Americans tighten their belts?

A renewed media committee quizzed the broadcaster’s equally refreshed leadership line-up one year on from the Ryan Tubridy-fronted payments controversy, but still ignored the crucial commercial aspect of its model.