It appears an autumn election is on the cards, and one could also happen in Britain. Irish and British autumn elections have never happened in the same year.
Our world is often consumed by chaos and confusion, so it is comforting that some things remain constant (‘DUP rules out prospect of power-sharing in Northern Ireland before Christmas’, Irish Independent, December 18).
On the day that Donald Tusk made his first speech as the new prime minister of Poland, a far-right hooligan MP in the Warsaw parliament grabbed a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles burning in the chamber.