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After months of mounting and intense speculation, the Taoiseach has played his trump constitutional card with the calling of a general election for Friday, November 29th. Harris has broken recent tradition with his predecessors Enda Kenny and Leo Varadkar who both were said to have regretted opting for February polling days in 2016 and 2020.

Eight years ago, the US Embassy, then run staffed by Barack Obama appointees, held an election-night party in London which was meant to be a wild celebration of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s confirmation as the first female president of the United States. It turned into a wake.

The EU must navigate the evolving global trade and political landscape, marked by Donald Trump's return to the White House, by strengthening its industrial policies and unified single market to maintain and enhance its competitiveness.

Each summer, a key event in the Irish political calendar is held in County Donegal, in the far reaches of the north west of Ireland, over 260 kilometres from the political capital of Dublin. The MacGill Summer School has been running in Glenties, Co. Donegal since 1981, and is named after the local 20th Century writer, Patrick MacGill. Over the last forty years, the school has attracted senior political, economic and academic figures from across the country.