The Irish and UK Governments have published an outline deal to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland, and urged the parties to sign up to it.

It may seem churlish to begin consideration of the spectacular Tory election victory in Washington but it seems unavoidable.

The DUP has said peace in Northern Ireland is at risk if a Brexit deal draws a customs border in the Irish Sea.

A British-Irish parliamentary body has warned that the strong relationship between Gardaí and the PSNI “could be undermined” if there was no Brexit agreement.

Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson said his party continues to hold firm and will vote against Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

I should be writing about today’s budget this morning. But there’s nothing to say, really.

The DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson has called on the Irish courts and the Irish government to facilitate any extradition request for controversial former priest Patrick Ryan who confessed his involvement with the Brighton bombing on a BBC programme which is to be broadcast on Tuesday night.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned British prime minister Boris Johnson that London will still face "years" of talks with the EU even if it forces a no-deal Brexit.

Mr Donaldson said that unless the EU and Ireland compromise on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, they are heading for a no-deal Brexit.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The DUP is not prepared to take no-deal off the table, Jeffrey Donaldson MP has said.

The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legislate for marriage equality and abortion in Northern Ireland, unless the government at Stormont is up and running again by October 21.

It is a bit rich of Jeffrey Donaldson of the Democratic Unionist Party to complain of what he sees as Dublin’s failure to engage in dialogue with unionists, when his own party has been sluggish in addressing Sinn Féin concerns in order to restore the North’s power-sharing institutions.

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson has repeated his call for the Irish government to agree a specific timeline for the backstop - the insurance mechanism to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

Brexit has damaged relations between Dublin and Belfast but those relations must be repaired, DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

Nigel Dodds, speaking in the UK parliament on March 25, emphasised the backstop as the problem.

Brexit presents a “constitutional earthquake” for this country and is a “game-changer” for the future of the island of Ireland, according to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that Brexit presents a "constitutional earthquake" for this country and is a "game-changer" for the future of the island of Ireland.

Anglo-Irish relations have been put under strain by Brexit and will continue to be strained in the future says Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe.

Over 1,000 party members are attending the two-day event in Wexford, which ends with a televised address by the Taoiseach tonight.

The DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson says he believes that a deal will be reached between the UK and the EU at the last minute.

Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman Pearse Doherty has been appointed as the party’s deputy leader in the Dáil by party president Mary Lou McDonald.

James Brokenshire last night said there is still time to save powersharing in Stormont.

James Brokenshire has said there is still time to save powersharing in Stormont.

The imposition of a customs frontier on the Irish border would "play fast and loose" with both the economy and peace process, Sinn Féin has warned.

The Democratic Unionists have warned the Irish Government to stop engaging in "megaphone diplomacy" as their row over Brexit continued.

The DUP has backed a deal to support the minority Conservative government in the UK.

A senior DUP member has said the chances of reaching a deal with the Conservatives to prop up Theresa May's minority government are "very good".

Conservative and Labour figures reacted cautiously to the exit poll predicting Theresa May could have lost her overall majority.

Sinn Féin has said voters in the British general election have a right to know the actual source of the donation.

The Democratic Unionist Party is ready to fight another snap election in Northern Ireland if necessary, a senior party member has said.

A senior Democratic Unionist negotiator has accused Sinn Féin of peddling "doom and gloom" misinformation about the state of talks to restore powersharing in the North.

Arlene Foster has long been disliked by Sinn Féin, but the breakdown in government brings an election that could be the most bitter in many years, writes Brian Murphy

Northern Ireland is facing a prolonged period of direct rule from Westminster in the wake of the anticipated collapse of power-sharing at Stormont, a senior Democratic Unionist predicts.

Northern Ireland is facing a prolonged period of direct rule from Westminster in the wake of the anticipated collapse of power-sharing at Stormont, a senior Democratic Unionist has predicted.

A political inferno around a green boiler scheme is to remove Arlene Foster from her once-seemingly unassailable job as Stormont First Minister. 

New game Mafia 3 hasn't getting the best reviews and now it's under fire from an unlikely source - Unionist MP's have taken issue with its content.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today prioritise trade with the EU single market, and opposition to a return to a hard border in the North, during his first meeting with British prime minister Theresa May.

Irish and British leaders will continue their final push to rescue the peace process in the North today after crunch talks continued late into the night between parties.

A breakthrough in crunch talks between the Taoiseach, the British prime minister and Northern Ireland’s political leaders is still a long way off, the Democratic Unionists said tonight.

Ian Paisley has been praised as the politician who finally cemented Northern Ireland’s peace process.

Did I blink during the RTÉ live coverage of Albert Reynolds’s funeral or did no prominent member of the unionist/loyalist community come to Dublin to pay their respects to the former taoiseach?

The Government has denied there was an amnesty for IRA killers operating in the Republic for more than a decade.

A senior Northern Ireland MP has demanded an urgent response from the Irish Government over claims by a former Irish justice minister of a top-level decision not to pursue IRA killers in the republic.

Marathon all-night negotiations to resolve outstanding peace process issues in the North have failed to produce an agreement.

Politicians in the North were last night locked in last-ditch negotiations to strike a deal on outstanding peace process issues.

Politicians in the North are set for another late night of negotiations in a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal on outstanding peace process issues.

Marathon through-the-night political negotiations in Belfast have failed to produce an agreement to deal with unresolved peace process issues in the North.

An investigation is underway into a suspected arson attack on the offices of Alliance Party MLA Trevor Lunn in Co Antrim this morning.

In describing the findings of the Smithwick Tribunal report as “absolutely shocking”, Taoiseach Enda Kenny spoke for the vast majority of the Irish people, north and south.