Yahoo

The North’s border will be the UK’s only land frontier with an EU state after next year’s withdrawal and is one of the most vexed issues facing negotiators in Brussels. British prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet is considering whether to support a customs partnership with the EU after Brexit, whereby the UK would effectively collect tariffs on behalf of the bloc, or a technological solution to border control known as ‘maximum facilitation’. Ms McDonald told the ard fheis: “Allowing the Tories to dodge, equivocate, and engage in fantasy non-solutions to the Irish question is most certainly not the answer. If the architects of Brexit still can’t agree what Brexit looks like, that is their problem.

PARIS, France - A 24-year-old woman was detained by the French police on Sunday, after she stabbed two people at a supermarket in southern France. On Sunday morning, the woman is said to have yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest) before stabbing two people at a supermarket in La Seyne-sur-Mer. According to prosecutors, the woman attacked customers waiting in a checkout line at the supermarket with a boxcutter. They said that the woman was born in France in 1994, and entered the supermarket dressed in black and wearing a veil. She struck one customer and a supermarket staff member at the E.Leclerc shop at 10.30 am on Sunday. Toulon Prosecutor Bernard Marchal said in a statement, “A man was struck

AS THE OLD saying goes, Slaven Bilic tells it like it is. The ex-Croatia defender’s bluntness sent his ITV colleagues into hysterics on Sunday night during their coverage of Brazil’s tense 1-1 draw with Switzerland. Steven Zuber’s second-half equaliser denied Tite’s favourites an opening day victory with a well-taken header, however the goal was at the centre of debate as it featured a push inside the box. The Hoffenheim midfielder shoved his marker Miranda inside the penalty area before meeting Xherdan Shaqiri’s corner with a pinpoint header, with Brazil’s players demanding the goal to be ruled out for a foul. Pundits across the globe will debate whether the goal should have stood, but former

PDForra (Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks Representative Association) took a case to the High Court over members of the Defence Forces being excluded from the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997. The test case was finally settled last Thursday after negotiations between PDForra’s legal representatives and representatives of the Minister with Responsibility for Defence, Paul Kehoe. As a result, Susan O’Donnell, a member of the army, is to get annual leave she lost in 2015. She will also receive an ex-gratia sum in compensation. PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan said members of the Defence Forces have been unable, as a result of an exclusion clause contained in the Act, to avail of