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This week’s Westminster election may reshape Northern Ireland’s political landscape along Brexit fault lines – but on a UK scale, it still looks set to return a majority set on unrealistic trade expectations, raising again the prospect of a no-deal.

Where they go, Ireland goes. In part three of his series on where Ireland is going, Stephen Kinsella looks at the institutional design of our society, analyses our ruling ideas, and asks which sets of interests dominate.

Brexit has changed the role of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. And the current incumbent of the portfolio, Simon Coveney, has revelled in the position. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses negotiation strategy, his political ambitions and Ireland’s role in a post-Brexit Europe.

Paschal Donohoe worked at a high level in the corporate world and has since risen the ranks in politics to become Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. What can the public sector learn from the private world, and vice versa?