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Jude Webber

Ireland Correspondent

Jude Webber is Ireland correspondent, covering all developments in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Jude moved to her current role after 21 years in Latin America, covering most of the continent including Peru, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and most recently Mexico and Central America. Prior to joining the FT in 2007, she worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent for Reuters.
Email Jude Webber @jude_webber  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Ireland
    Skort shrift: the fight over women’s sportswear

    After high-profile pitch stand-offs, players can finally wear shorts

    Kilkenny Captain Katie Power in shorts with Referee Ray Kelly and Dublin Aisling Maher also in shorts
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Newspaper industry
    200-year-old newspaper fights decline of UK local media

    Northern Ireland’s Impartial Reporter revamps as local press battles for readers in tough online world

    Rodney Edwards with his arms folded at an exhibition to mark the newspaper’s 200th anniversary
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Northern Ireland
    Gerry Adams wins defamation case against BBC

    Veteran republican leader awarded €100,000 in damages at Dublin’s High Court

    Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin, Ireland on May 30 2025
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Ireland
    Top Kinahan drug cartel sidekick extradited to Ireland from UAE

    Pressure rises on organisation’s boss Daniel Kinahan, who remains in Dubai, as Sean McGovern is charged in Dublin

    Members of the Gardai armed support unit patrol outside the Special Criminal Court in Dublin before the court appearance of Sean McGovern,
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    EU countries push for swift trade deal with Trump

    Italy’s Meloni holds emergency call with US president ahead of exchange with von der Leyen

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, and Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Ireland moves to ban trade with Israeli businesses in occupied Palestinian territories

    Bill to focus on goods as government says it cannot target services such as Airbnb rentals

    Ireland’s foreign and trade minister Simon Harris
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Kneecap
    Member of Belfast rap trio Kneecap charged with terror offence

    Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh to appear in court in London next month over allegations of waving a Hizbollah flag at a concert

    Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    News in-depthGold
    US lawmakers warn over delays to major gold mine in Northern Ireland

    Backers fear long planning process for Curraghinalt project could deter other investors in one of poorest UK regions

  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast21 min listen
    How Trump’s tariffs threaten Ireland’s pharma fortune

    The pharma hub stands to lose a lot in the US president’s second term

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    EU tech regulation
    Ireland leads charge to force Big Tech to vet financial ads for scams

    EU member states push for rule change to make tech groups shoulder responsibility for fraud that costs billions each year

    Ad promoting a fake government scheme with an AI-generated video of Leo Varadkar
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Person in the News
    Kevin Farrell, the cardinal running the papal conclave

    The Irish-American camerlengo is responsible for overseeing the Vatican’s secretive election to choose the next pope

    Illustration of Person in the News Kevin Farrell
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    TikTok Inc
    TikTok fined €530mn for sending EU user data to China

    Social media group hit by one of the biggest financial penalties ever issued by Ireland’s data protection watchdog

    TikTok app logo
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    OutlookNorthern Ireland
    From presidents to hillbillies, Northern Ireland wants more recognition in the US

    Its influence in America has long played second fiddle to that of émigrés from the Republic of Ireland

    US vice-president JD Vance delivers remarks at a St Patrick’s Day breakfast in Washington last month
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Airbus SE
    Airbus deal with supplier Spirit raises fears for 2,500 jobs in Belfast

    Unions call for government intervention to safeguard operations

    Boeing 737 Max fuselages sit on a tarmac outside Spirit AeroSystems’ factory in Wichita, Kansas
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    EU defence
    Tech groups pivot to defence in neutral Ireland as EU re-arms

    Radar, AI and subsea surveillance are big growth areas for security technology with dual uses

    A Royal Navy frigate shadowed Russian reconnaissance vessel Yantar before it moved into Irish waters in January
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump tariffs bring furrowed brows to Ireland’s Botox town

    Westport makes the world’s entire supply of the anti-wrinkle drug — now it fears production could move to the US

    Industrial estate housing pharmaceutical company AbbVie and other local business in Westport
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Some good news for Northern Ireland Premium content

    Plus, the Troubles cast a long shadow over education

    Northern Ireland secretary of state Hilary Benn addresses the media after a visit to St. George’s market on July 7 2024 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why the EU will struggle to negotiate an alternative trade deal with Ukraine Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Irish students warned to think twice before going to the US

    A combine harvests wheat near Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Work Watch
    AI praise-giving tool promises ‘authentic’ insights

    Irish company Workhuman says new technology can help workers feel more valued

    Montage of clapping hands coming out of a laptop screen
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Northern Irish whiskey sector faces confusion over Trump tariffs

    With ingredients sourced on both sides of the border producers are unclear over the impact of US levies

    Bottles of Bushmills whiskey
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Northern Ireland fears becoming ‘collateral damage’ in trade war

    Brexit deal means region could be hit by EU counter-tariffs on US goods

    Shoppers on Donegall Place in view of the Belfast City Hall in central Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK economy
    UK consults business on retaliation against Trump tariffs

    Starmer pledges to redouble efforts to strike trade deal with the US

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer vows ‘cool-headed’ response to Trump tariffs

    UK prime minister tells MPs a trade war is ‘in nobody’s interests’

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London, on Wednesday
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why Norway is edging towards a fresh EU membership bid Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Ireland’s pharma industry braces itself for Donald Trump’s tariffs

    Flags of Norway and the European Union with the sky in the background
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    News in-depthRare earths
    Belfast magnet recycling start-up offers rare earth promise

    Ionic Technologies says it is the only company outside China able to separate the four most valuable oxides

    A sample of neodymium, extracted from recycled magnets, is prepared for analysis by a woman in a laboratory
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