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Romania’s ruling Social Democrats were on course to win a parliamentary election despite gains by a nationalist group that had threatened to deliver a blow to the Black Sea nation’s political establishment. The Social Democrats took about 23 per cent…

In an introduction to his latest book, Diarmaid Ferriter looks back to one he published 20 years ago, The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000, and admits the title “now appears provisional”. Over coffee in a Dublin hotel, I put it to…