Budget 2021: €5.5bn set aside due to Covid-19 and Brexit uncertainty

Varadkar insists contingency funds needed as ‘we don’t know what’s going to happen’

International coverage of Coalition deal consistently spells ‘Micheál’ incorrectly

New York Times notes SF rise to main opposition party as shift in Irish politics

Green Party negotiators at odds over merits of government deal

Hourigan voices ‘considerable’ concerns while Smyth cautions against ‘ideological approach’

TDs and senators back ‘best achievable’ programme for government

Crucially, Catherine Martin, the Green Party deputy leader, has supported the deal

Future government should look at options for Cork-Limerick motorway – Ryan

Green leader says any savings on proposed motorway could fund light rail in Cork city

Fianna FĂĄil plan set to freeze public service pay, Taoiseach claims

FF rejects Varadkar comments and says Fine Gael seeks to stir up pre-election pay auction

Leo Varadkar says general election should be held at ‘right time for the country’

Taoiseach’s election language seen as more ambiguous than before

Dáil expenses system ‘too lax’ and needs overhaul, says Varadkar

Taoiseach calls for clerk of DĂĄil to launch investigation into ex-FG TD Dara Murphy

Affordable childcare the key to gender equality in workplace, say experts

Taoiseach promises Citizens’ Assembly on equality will close to the gender pay gap

Varadkar defends housing record saying opponents more focused on ideology than delivery

Taoiseach turns sod on State’s first affordable purchase housing scheme in the country

An Taisce calls on Varadkar to clarify climate change remarks

Taoiseach showed ‘reckless disregard for science’ by talking of climate change benefits

Varadkar’s comments on illegal immigration ‘dangerous’, says rights group

Sinn FĂŠin leader criticises Taoiseach for singling out migrants from Albania and Georgia

Donohoe keeps everything centred with middle-of-the-road budget

The Minister is claiming the mantle of fiscal prudence, but is it looking a little threadbare?

UN summit: environmentalists criticise lack of ‘concrete actions’

Secretary general welcomes 77 countries’ commitments to net-zero emissions by 2050

Government to seek ‘consultative role’ in NI if direct rule imposed after Brexit

British PM expressed desire to attend next British-Irish Council meeting, says Varadkar

Shadow of children’s hospital looms over capital plan

Analysis: Taoiseach says any claims projects would be cut were ‘scandal-mongering’

Issues over Public Services Card ‘certainly’ require change - Varadkar

Taoiseach foresees further work on retention of data, transparency and legal basis of PSC

Varadkar defends Mercosur trade deal from beef farmers’ backlash

Taoiseach says opposition to deal could thwart future free-trade arrangements

Taoiseach withdraws Dáil remark about ‘sinning priest’ Martin

Varadkar said remarks ‘caused offence to people I never intended to offend’

Áras party celebrates 100th anniversary of first Dåil

Michael Holohan returns to the Áras 80 years after attending its first garden party

Housing crisis: Dáil told of ‘mind-numbing’ lack of ambition

Labour Party leader tells Taoiseach, ‘I am convinced you don’t have the will to solve it’

Pelosi pledges to raise Irish visa Bill with Republican Senate leader

Democrat says she will help renewed push in Congress to pass extension of E3 visas to Irish

Retendering children’s hospital contract not an option – Harris

Minister says he wants ‘everyone to continue doing what they’ve signed up to do’

MEP says EU is ‘standing behind’ Ireland as no-deal Brexit looms

Philippe Lamberts says Ireland is between ‘a rock and a hard place’ in Brexit negotiations

The English have been getting stuff wrong about Ireland again

Donald Clarke: Brexit fever is escalating Britain’s ignorance of Ireland to intolerable levels

Martin rules out election in 2019, saying it would not be in the national interest

‘Political chaos we see in London will not be allowed to spread to Ireland,’ Martin says

Government ramps up preparations for no-deal Brexit

Varadkar says Ireland will not make plans public until appropriate to do so

Failure to publish report on rape of three children in foster care condemned in DĂĄil

Taoiseach said he would have to check with Minister for Children on the report

FF to push Government on slow progress in tackling housing crisis

Move comes as party prepares to decide on confidence and supply deal extension

May to warn of ‘division and uncertainty’ if MPs reject EU deal

British prime minister to argue deal delivers Brexit while protecting jobs and livelihoods

Varadkar insists lack of staff in hospitals at Christmas results in delayed treatment

Taoiseach said his experience working in various hospitals helped form his views

Brexit: Varadkar sets out second condition for review of backstop

Taoiseach says possibility of special Brexit deal summit in November becoming less likely

‘Race against time’ to conduct safety checks of 40 schools

Minister says it is likely that more schools will close due to structural concerns

Brexit: Varadkar says transition extension is not alternative to Border backstop

Taoiseach says any Brexit deal must be acceptable to European Parliament

Nobody ‘in right mind’ wants to see cervical cancer cases in court - Harris

Solicitor working with some CervicalCheck affected says State ‘effectively hiding behind women’

Dublin airport could have a third terminal, says Shane Ross

Minister raises possibility of privately run terminal, says second runway an ‘imperative’

Brexit: ‘call Ireland’s bluff’ on Border, Rees-Mogg tells May

Hardline Brexiteer says EU’s stance on Border is political rather than legal

Screening controversy: Woman’s anger ‘outweighs her fear of dying’

Mary Lou McDonald says mother with cervical cancer ‘has no confidence’ in HSE chief Tony O’Brien

Naughten expresses ‘sincere regret’ over phone conversation on INM

Denis Naughten: ‘I do sincerely regret expressing a view’

EU issued warning to Government over alcohol Bill

European Commission said the proposed legislation may conflict with bloc’s law

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