Labour to back second Brexit vote in effort to avoid no-deal outcomeLondon to bring back direct rule in NI as administrative move in event of crashoutTue Feb 26 2019 - 03:00
Donohoe beats retreat to buy time on public service payUnravelling of pay deal will take months and may get subsumed into an electionSat Feb 16 2019 - 04:00
Children’s hospital board predicts little interest if project retenderedConstruction firm Bam says it will step down if asked to do soSat Feb 16 2019 - 01:00
Children’s hospital fiasco a stark warning for €116bn capital planState is still learning about infrastructure costings. Hospital is dear but valuable lessonSat Feb 16 2019 - 00:36
Senior civil servant agrees to appear before public accounts committeePAC wants to question DPER head Robert Watt about children’s hospital spendingFri Feb 15 2019 - 16:53
Government ministers report upsurge in contacts from British counterpartsTaoiseach warns Ministers not to engage with British requests to discuss the backstopWed Feb 13 2019 - 21:44
State to examine if unrealistically low bids submitted to win contractsGovernment concerned over companies low-balling for tenders for children’s hospitalWed Feb 13 2019 - 00:46
Settling of nurses’ dispute carries price for GovernmentInside Politics: Paschal Donohoe concedes a pay increase to nurses of some €1,200 eachTue Feb 12 2019 - 08:06
Nurses offered average pay rises of 2.5% to avert strikesFears that pay increases for nurses may threaten wider public sector pay agreementTue Feb 12 2019 - 06:54
Capital projects will not be cut or delayed to save €100m for hospital, says DonohoeHarris describes protest at his house as ‘plain and simple intimidation’Tue Feb 12 2019 - 01:00
Nurse proposal places big questions over public sector pay accordFórsa poised to scrutinise Labour Court implications for other civil and public servantsTue Feb 12 2019 - 01:00
Theresa May running down the clock on Brexit, Starmer saysLabour MP visited Dublin and met unions, businesses and Tánaiste Simon CoveneyMon Feb 11 2019 - 16:20
Fine Gael reputation for prudence takes a batteringGovernment’s efforts to project itself as a sensible manager of the national finances now underminedSat Feb 09 2019 - 04:00
Taoiseach and May discuss Brexit ‘overall state of play’ in DublinPrivate dinner meeting described as ‘warm’ by aides also focused on stalled NI assemblyFri Feb 08 2019 - 23:19
Taoiseach and ministers rally around Harris but privately there are nervesFew people believe, at this point anyway, that Harris will be forced to resign on the issueFri Feb 08 2019 - 17:53
Dublin wonders why May is coming over here to meet VaradkarA common view is PM's visits to Brussels and Dublin are to show activity, momentumFri Feb 08 2019 - 01:00
May to meet Taoiseach in Dublin on Friday to discuss Brexit impasseVaradkar to confirm EU’s repeated line to prime minister that backstop not on tableFri Feb 08 2019 - 00:04
Why the Government cannot give in on the nurses’ strikeLatest public pay row is the most important battle of Paschal Donohoe’s ministerial careerThu Feb 07 2019 - 06:00
Government rejects new May appeal to reopen withdrawal agreementBritish prime minister says during Belfast visit promise to avoid hard border is ‘unshakeable’Wed Feb 06 2019 - 00:30
Individuals may be held accountable over cost of children's hospitalTaoiseach yields to concerns around oversight layers and acceptance of responsibilityMon Feb 04 2019 - 01:00
Higher taxes on wealth and business needed to tackle poverty – reportSocial Justice Ireland’s annual report says Ireland’s economic model not fit for purposeMon Feb 04 2019 - 00:01
Brexit: Dublin dismisses Javid's call to use technology at borderTaoiseach frustrated UK is revisiting things already rejected and which will not workSun Feb 03 2019 - 16:54
Ireland has yet to make its most important decision on BrexitPat Leahy: The Government is going to have to decide whether to help Theresa MaySat Feb 02 2019 - 04:00
Varadkar to discuss next Brexit steps with Juncker and TuskFew significant public developments likely until votes in the Commons on February 14thSat Feb 02 2019 - 01:00
Brexit: Britain may need to delay exit to pass legislation, Jeremy Hunt saysCorbyn says an extension may be required due to government’s ‘failure to negotiate’Thu Jan 31 2019 - 15:18
Nurses more trusted than weather forecasters and scientists, survey findsOnly 10% of those surveyed trust social media influencersThu Jan 31 2019 - 12:42
Brexit: Wary stalemate looms as Dublin, Brussels rebuff May over backstopInside Politics: Taoiseach tells British PM it was unusual to go back on an agreement she had madeThu Jan 31 2019 - 08:10
EU officials set to visit Dublin for no-deal Brexit talksEurope reaffirms backing for State ahead of visit to discuss no-deal Brexit preparationsThu Jan 31 2019 - 00:50
Government set to stick to its hard line on nurses’ payDespite widespread public support, there’s little hope of a resolution before next week’s planned stoppagesWed Jan 30 2019 - 19:19
May pledges to reopen Brexit deal after victory in key votePM wants to secure ‘legally binding changes’ to withdrawal agreementWed Jan 30 2019 - 00:02
Dublin’s discipline on backstop wobbles as strain starts to tellGaffes creep in as realisation dawns that Ireland may soon face uncomfortable choiceTue Jan 29 2019 - 01:00
May to seek backstop replacement to avoid hard borderLogjam continues as Conservative Brexiteers say latest proposal does not go far enoughTue Jan 29 2019 - 01:00
The Brexit amendments: What the UK parliament is proposingFour main strategies are being proposed - some more attractive to Ireland than othersMon Jan 28 2019 - 16:29
Old firm no longer the be-all and end-all of Irish politicsOpposition groups not looking like serious contenders after Mansion House performancesSat Jan 26 2019 - 04:00
Strain over Brexit caused Taoiseach to refer to troops at Border, say aidesVaradkar insists it is the British who have the responsibility to compromise over backstopSat Jan 26 2019 - 01:00
EU support for Ireland evident as Brexit realities sharpen in focusThoughts turn to backstop as device not principle and Border function as May lacks dealSat Jan 26 2019 - 01:00
Many EU countries more advanced with no-deal Brexit legislation than IrelandSome already have laws giving government special powers should UK crash outFri Jan 25 2019 - 01:00
Revenue braces for Brexit deluge of paperworkHiring accelerated to deal with up to 20 million customs forms, a 12-fold increaseThu Jan 24 2019 - 00:54
Hard or soft border? Crucial Brexit talks in Dublin over next few weeksInside Politics: reports of disharmony in Cabinet over Shane Ross circulate around Leinster HouseWed Jan 23 2019 - 07:47
Government rejects idea hard border needed in no-deal scenarioCommission’s chief spokesman says ‘you will have a hard border’ when asked a about the effect of a no-deal scenario on IrelandWed Jan 23 2019 - 01:00
EU backstop intervention leaves Ireland with unpalatable choicesDid the commission spokesman misspeak about a hard border? That would be very oddWed Jan 23 2019 - 01:00
Taoiseach insists there will be no hard border despite EU statement‘Government will not support the re-emergence of border infrastructure’, says CoveneyWed Jan 23 2019 - 01:00
‘Very difficult’ to avoid border infrastructure under no-deal BrexitSimon Coveney says backstop is the solution to protecting the status quo in IrelandTue Jan 22 2019 - 17:15
Hauliers get assurance on customs arrangementsIn event of no-deal Brexit, arrangements at ports will remain unaltered for nine monthsTue Jan 22 2019 - 00:22
Homeless children in hospital emergency department up 29%Temple Street head medical social worker calls spike in presentations ‘shameful’Tue Jan 22 2019 - 00:01
Taoiseach says first Dáil ‘changed course of Irish history’President says 1919 gathering an act of courage that provoked ‘arrogant’ British responseMon Jan 21 2019 - 20:35
British politics is falling apart – the Tories are to blame, but Labour is also a shamblesThe wreckers in the Conservative Party are willing to destroy everything in their path in pursuit of a Brexit with an uncertain outcomeSat Jan 19 2019 - 04:00
Brexit: Dublin starting to think about a move on backstopA device that was meant to facilitate progress has instead become a barrier to itSat Jan 19 2019 - 01:00
German MP says Border controls in Ireland inevitable in event of no-deal BrexitLiam Fox admits Britain may not be able to replace any of the EU’s trade deals ahead of March 29thFri Jan 18 2019 - 19:58
Dáil hears calls for financial aid to help businesses and farmers hit by Brexit‘We have no idea, to put it bluntly, what if any money will be available to us in the event of a no-deal Brexit’Thu Jan 17 2019 - 20:27
