Concerns over the possible return of a hard Irish border have rarely been out of the news since the Brexit vote. From the Brexit backstop, to the Northern Ireland Protocol, to the current Windsor ...

Ireland faces financial penalties from Europe if it systematically fails to enforce customs controls with the UK should the latter leave the Customs Union, a former European Commission official has ...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not understand how customs checks between Ireland and Northern Ireland can be avoided under the proposed deal put forward by UK prime minister Boris Johnson.

The Irish question now threatens to grind Brexit to a halt. The next EU summit is coming in a few weeks, and for the Brits and the EU to proceed to the next phase of Brexit negotiations, Ireland must ...

IRELAND is set to become the first country to have full pre-clearance facilities for travelers wishing to visit the U.S. U.S. Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano ...

Ireland has boosted Theresa May’s hopes of breaking the impasse in Brexit talks by backing her emerging plan for an all-UK customs union with the EU. Ahead of a crucial EU summit this month, the ...

LONDON—The U.K. will on Wednesday rule out extending the European Union’s customs area to encircle Northern Ireland after Brexit, saying such a move wouldn’t be “constitutionally or economically ...

While the British prime minister clarified her government's approach to Brexit on Tuesday, clarity does not bring reassurance for Ireland. In one key dimension, trade, it is clear that the UK’s ...

But it was exactly a century ago, on 1 April 1923, that the hard Irish border was born. Almost two years after the partition of Ireland, customs barriers were built, halting the free movement of goods ...