There was a spike in work permits granted in 2024 after significant changes to permit rules that year.

Ireland will have a "huge role" to play in Ukraine's future with the EU presidency, an MEP has said

The unionist party is set to table a petition of concern against the motion in the Stormont Assembly on Monday.

The presence of Russian vessels off the Irish coast has been well documented in the last few years

The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commenting as talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials took place in Geneva.

Mr McGrath made particular reference to Russia's election interference

The MEP for Midlands North-West described them as having the potential to "vastly accelerate affordable housing delivery across Europe"

But Tánaiste Simon Harris said there is ‘no sign or sight’ of a peace agreement being struck in the near future.

It calls for an EU-wide end of trade with goods and services originating from illegal settlements.

Drones which entered Polish airspace were shot down.

The drinks sector is the ‘next major area of priority’ for the European Union in tariff discussions with the US, the Tánaiste has said.

A pint of beer in Ireland is levied with an excise rate of 55 cent, compared to just five cent in Germany.

Micheál Martin attended a virtual meeting of the coalition of the willing in support of Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday.

The former president said she would 'urge Ireland' to put heavy pressure to suspend the current preferential trade agreement between the EU and Israel

Simon Harris said the EU tariff rate of 15% would come into effect from next Thursday.

The Armagh Bramleys are one of only three products from Northern Ireland with the sought-after PGI status recognition.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said there was a 50/50 chance or perhaps less that the United States would reach a trade agreement with the European Union

The Irish Farmers' Association said changes to the EU's farming subsidies are potentially devastating

Simon Harris said the EU has to ‘prepare for all scenarios’ after US President Donald Trump threatened 30 per cent tariffs against the bloc.

US President Donald Trump said he would impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decided to retaliate.

The minister is to take part in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council on Trade in Brussels on Monday.

Donald Trump said the European Union and Mexico will face a 30% tariff on imports to the US from August

The fresh tariffs were announced in separate letters posted on Truth Social on Saturday.

The survey, which involved over 26,300 people across the 27 EU member states including over 1,000 in the Republic, examined public attitudes to corruption.

Countries had been working to a Wednesday deadline to make a new deal with the Trump administration.

Out of 202 million private households in the 27-country bloc, just under a quarter included children last year, according to information collated by Eurostat, the EU statistics office.

Simon Harris also said he wants to put pressure on the other 26 European countries to consider banning trade with occupied Palestinian territories.

The SDLP Stormont leader was speaking ahead of an opposition motion in the Assembly, nine years on from the 2016 Brexit referendum.

The Fine Gael MEP made headlines in 2014, as she was the first openly gay winner of the Rose of Tralee.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he believes the US is anxious to reach a deal on trade with the EU.

Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne urged the EU to ‘stand firm’ in trade talks with the United States.

The Taoiseach said the announcement from US President Donald Trump came as a “surprise”.

Throughout the inquiry, TikTok denied that it stored European users’ data on servers located in China.

The former taoiseach said younger generations should not ‘be afraid’ of economic uncertainty.

The Tanaiste’s comments came after US President Donald Trump said he would take the measure to improve domestic production of medicines.

The Tánaiaste said it is important to ‘utilise’ US President Donald Trump’s 90-day tariffs pause.

Paschal Donohoe welcomed Mr Trump’s decision to pause the so-called reciprocal tariffs.

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have welcomed a pause on higher tariffs from both the US and EU sides

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said ‘we’re not out of the woods yet’.

The Tánaiste met with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington DC on Wednesday.

The EU response to Donald Trump's tariffs should be "measured and strategic" rather than reactionary, according to an Irish MEP

Jack Chambers has compared US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime to the circumstances which precipitated the Great Depression.

In an interview with BreakingNews.ie, Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Cowen discussed the "severe threat" to Ireland's whiskey industry