Unravelling of pay deal will take months and may get subsumed into an election

Construction firm Bam says it will step down if asked to do so

State is still learning about infrastructure costings. Hospital is dear but valuable lesson

PAC wants to question DPER head Robert Watt about children’s hospital spending

Taoiseach warns Ministers not to engage with British requests to discuss the backstop

Government concerned over companies low-balling for tenders for children’s hospital

Inside Politics: Paschal Donohoe concedes a pay increase to nurses of some €1,200 each

Fears that pay increases for nurses may threaten wider public sector pay agreement

Harris describes protest at his house as ‘plain and simple intimidation’

Fórsa poised to scrutinise Labour Court implications for other civil and public servants

Labour MP visited Dublin and met unions, businesses and Tánaiste Simon Coveney

Government’s efforts to project itself as a sensible manager of the national finances now undermined

Private dinner meeting described as ‘warm’ by aides also focused on stalled NI assembly

Few people believe, at this point anyway, that Harris will be forced to resign on the issue

A common view is PM's visits to Brussels and Dublin are to show activity, momentum

Varadkar to confirm EU’s repeated line to prime minister that backstop not on table

Latest public pay row is the most important battle of Paschal Donohoe’s ministerial career

British prime minister says during Belfast visit promise to avoid hard border is ‘unshakeable’

Taoiseach yields to concerns around oversight layers and acceptance of responsibility

Social Justice Ireland’s annual report says Ireland’s economic model not fit for purpose

Taoiseach frustrated UK is revisiting things already rejected and which will not work

Pat Leahy: The Government is going to have to decide whether to help Theresa May

Few significant public developments likely until votes in the Commons on February 14th

Only 10% of those surveyed trust social media influencers

Corbyn says an extension may be required due to government’s ‘failure to negotiate’

Inside Politics: Taoiseach tells British PM it was unusual to go back on an agreement she had made

Europe reaffirms backing for State ahead of visit to discuss no-deal Brexit preparations

Despite widespread public support, there’s little hope of a resolution before next week’s planned stoppages

PM wants to secure ‘legally binding changes’ to withdrawal agreement

Gaffes creep in as realisation dawns that Ireland may soon face uncomfortable choice

Logjam continues as Conservative Brexiteers say latest proposal does not go far enough

Four main strategies are being proposed - some more attractive to Ireland than others

Opposition groups not looking like serious contenders after Mansion House performances

Varadkar insists it is the British who have the responsibility to compromise over backstop

Thoughts turn to backstop as device not principle and Border function as May lacks deal

Some already have laws giving government special powers should UK crash out

Hiring accelerated to deal with up to 20 million customs forms, a 12-fold increase

Inside Politics: reports of disharmony in Cabinet over Shane Ross circulate around Leinster House

Commission’s chief spokesman says ‘you will have a hard border’ when asked a about the effect of a no-deal scenario on Ireland

Did the commission spokesman misspeak about a hard border? That would be very odd

‘Government will not support the re-emergence of border infrastructure’, says Coveney

Simon Coveney says backstop is the solution to protecting the status quo in Ireland

In event of no-deal Brexit, arrangements at ports will remain unaltered for nine months

Temple Street head medical social worker calls spike in presentations ‘shameful’

President says 1919 gathering an act of courage that provoked ‘arrogant’ British response

The wreckers in the Conservative Party are willing to destroy everything in their path in pursuit of a Brexit with an uncertain ou(...)

A device that was meant to facilitate progress has instead become a barrier to it

Liam Fox admits Britain may not be able to replace any of the EU’s trade deals ahead of March 29th

‘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’

Brexit preparations at the Department of Transport are described as ‘all over the place’

Article 50 process likely to be paused to allow parliament give its view and EU to respond

Dublin calls on the UK to outline its next steps after House of Commons rejects deal

Inside Politics: Theresa May’s authority and credibility likely to be diminished further after Commons defeat

Taoiseach, Minister for Climate Action promise plan to reverse increasing emissions

Prime minister admits letter from Juncker and Tusk does not address MPs’ concerns

Specific updates on medicines and transport issues will be issued to Ministers

Window to address to climate action rapidly closing, Richard Bruton tells party colleagues

Brexit and its associated discontents may put FF off marching northwards

European Commission clarifications unlikely to sway minds of DUP

Preparatory work seen as prelude to increasing capacity at Co Kildare plant

Psychiatric nurses’ union says it will join wave of strikes by nurses next month

Taoiseach says weekend strike would have affected far fewer patients

INMO announces six days of work stoppages in January and February over pay issues

Minister for Finance says acceding demands would ‘take us back to the bad old days’

President not to attend Soloheadbeg event to mark IRA attack on Royal Irish Constabulary

DUP calls backstop ‘poison’ amid efforts to end Brexit impasse over likely duration

Some tough choices are now inevitable

It suited Micheál Martin, and the national interest, to keep Leo Varadkar in power

External threats loom against backdrop of bullish news about exchequer finances

Some in Fianna Fáil believe the longer Varadkar is in office, the more he will be damaged

Change in circumstances could trigger election next year, says Taoiseach

Construction costs have risen, now estimated annual operating costs spiral upwards

The State’s continued rejection of radical politics was one of the year’s main trends

Leo Varadkar calls for social media firms to remove some comments on incident in Falsk

Claim relates to a row over the amount of tax paid on the sale of a stake in a major drug

We don’t think a no-deal Brexit is a probability, but it’s a possibility, Leo Varadkar says

Government document sets out threat to Ireland in no-deal Brexit scenario

Department of Public Expenditure says average pay for nurses is €57,000

Government says creditors to be paid in full from the proceeds of the bank’s liquidation

Inside Politics: Labour leader’s motion of no confidence threatens to further fray PM’s authority

Cabinet to review capital budgets in Government departments as hospital costs rise

No Cabinet decision until new year in project that has been beset by controversy

Micheál Martin has backed extension of Government deal due to fear of a Brexit election

Such was the level of support for the Irish backstop that Juncker wore a green tie

We can’t have guarantees and assurances that contradict agreed treaty – Taoiseach

Cost estimates for facility at St James’s Hospital spiralling from 2012’s €404m

‘We don’t want the UK to think there can be any form of renegotiation whatsoever,’ says Juncker

Long meeting with May reiterates stance of not reopening withdrawal treaty for UK

The Irish know what they are talking about when it comes to declarations and clarifications

FF leader says it would be ‘highly reckless and irresponsible’ to have an election now

Taoiseach outlines option to avoid no-deal outcome and says EU wants to help May

PM tells European leaders she can get exit deal through parliament with ‘right assurances’

Irish sources say victory for British prime minister could prompt North backstop concessions from EU leaders

Juncker says there is ‘no room whatsoever’ for renegotiation of the withdrawal treaty

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

Nice and Lisbon treaties came with declarations to placate many of Ireland’s concerns

Legislation’s passage could be delayed due to the number of Amendments tabled

British PM speaks to Leo Varadkar by phone ahead of vote in the House of Commons

Healthcare group seeks to allay fears over future of the NMH after protest in Dublin

Pat Leahy: Public myopia and our political culture are obstacles to economic prudence