Considered by many the cornerstone of peace and stability on the island of Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement and the path to it was fraught with hurdles and political landmines, writes Juno McEnroe.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has held talks with DUP Leader Arlene Foster at the Killarney Economic Conference.

The importance of a common travel area between Ireland and Britain has to be “protected” at all costs, Taoiseach Enda Kenny will tell British Prime Minister Theresa May at a face-to-face meeting next week.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has further distanced himself from talk of a post-Brexit united Ireland poll after the North’s first minister, Arlene Foster, told him to concentrate on “reality” instead of “summer school” comments that cause “instability” in the province.

IT isn’t often that a nationalist southern newspaper is in agreement with a lofty, unionist member of Britain’s House of Lords, but it is hard to argue with the logic of Ulster Unionist, Peer Lord Empey, regarding the Taoiseach’s contradictory remarks over Brexit.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and leaders from Britain held a minute’s silence in tribute to the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, at a meeting of the British-Irish Council in Glasgow.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Greece has a responsibility to conclude a deal with its international creditors as he warned it was getting “very close to a real crisis time”.

Nine months after the Seanad was saved, we’re still wondering why it was retained, writes Prof Gary Murphy

Ministers from around Britain and Ireland will convene in Stirling, Scotland today to discuss shared priorities in boosting energy generation and tackling unemployment.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has ruled out accepting an EU-backed transaction tax on Irish financial services unless the levy is introduced in Britain and other states.

Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will warn today that the UK and Ireland need each other more than ever because of global uncertainty.

THE opposition has labelled as “incredible” a decision by Enda Kenny to turn down the offer of a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the eurozone debt crisis.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is travelling to London today for a meeting of the British-Irish Council in Lancaster House where economic co-operation is expected to top the agenda.

The controversy surrounding ’head shops’ and legal highs will be put under the spotlight by government officials from across Ireland and the UK, it emerged today.

The 13th British-Irish Council Summit is being held in Jersey today.

Elements of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) hark back to the days of unionist rule and hope to undermine Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, Sinn Fein claimed today.

The North's Assembly sessions are in danger of being cut back if the crisis facing the Executive is not tackled, it was warned today.

THE Queen of England will visit Ireland during her reign but probably not for a few years, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

The fight against drugs will be one of the key issues on the agenda as political leaders from the Irish and British governments as well as other devolved administrations meet in Dublin today.

IF PROOF was ever needed politicians spoil all the fun, it came in a cavalcade to Dundalk Institute of Technology.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will hold face to face talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown next Sunday, it was confirmed today.

The DUP's Ian Paisley Jnr is calling for the Gardaí and the PSNI to be allowed to cross the border in pursuit of suspected criminals.

The penalty points systems in Ireland and the UK are set to be harmonised under a deal reached at last week's British-Irish Council.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due to hold his first formal meeting with the new British Prime Minister later today.

ALMOST 20% of motorists who incur penalty points are foreign drivers, although few risk losing their licence or being fined due to the absence of legislation.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Tánaiste Mary Harney are due to attend a meeting of the British-Irish Council on the Isle of Man today.

Opponents of the SDLP’s plan for a team of civic administrators to run government departments in Northern Ireland in the absence of devolution are really arguing for direct rule from Westminster, party leader Mark Durkan claimed today.

Environment Minister Dick Roche has welcomed an improvement in the level of information being provided to the Irish Government in relation to the Sellafield nuclear plant.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern travels to Guernsey today for the sixth summit of the British-Irish Council.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley will today meet the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for their first political discussions in Dublin.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy is today set to announce his intention to increase the role of a special police unit set up to investigate unsolved murders in the North.

Though the cold reality of the results in the Northern Ireland elections may be ominous, they were hardly a bolt from the blue.

Bertie Ahern has called on the people of Northern Ireland to use their vote in tomorrow’s Assembly elections, stressing the importance of the Good Friday Agreement.

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Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has blamed UUP leader David Trimble for the current crisis facing the Irish peace process, despite Mr Trimble’s assertion that the IRA is at fault.

A team of Irish and British parliamentarians is to make an investigative trip to the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing plant earlier next year to assess security at the controversial plant.

British plans to commission the mixed oxide (MOX) facility at the Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing facility in Cumbria were today claimed to have the potential for souring Anglo-Irish relations.

The Sellafield nuclear waste reprocessing plant - which exposed major differences between the London and Dublin governments at a prime ministerial summit - will again be on the agenda at a conference involving British and Irish politicians this week.

The Tanaiste, Mary Harney, has married IBEC boss, Brian Geoghegan in a small ceremony in Dublin yesterday evening.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today promised to help ‘‘in any way’’ with the investigation into the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

Differences between the Irish and British governments over plans for a controversial development at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria were highlighted when the leaders of the two countries met today.