Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to up the stakes with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin this week by insisting, at a private meeting, that he will only put forward a budget in October if he knows his party will still be in power to implement it.

Fianna Fáil is set to press the Government to scrap plans for tax cuts in the budget and instead to spend money on services and alleviating living costs for struggling households.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin are to meet later this month in a bid to extend the confidence and supply deal.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have become embroiled in an argument over which party is closer to Sinn Féin.

Fianna Fáil are preparing for an election as early as September, with the party convinced Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is “gunning” to go to the polls.

A Fianna Fáil councillor who “lost out” on becoming a vice-chairman of a municipal district has complained to party headquarters.

The war of words between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over the confidence and supply agreement has prompted the Taoiseach to rule out calling a snap general election.

Poor Gerard Craughwell. Those Fianna Fáil feckers. How could they do it to him?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is pushing to renew the confidence and supply deal with Fianna Fáil before the Budget to allow the Government to get a handle on future spending.

The Government may fall before the long-awaited Public Health Alcohol Bill passes through the Oireachtas, Fianna Fáil health spokesman Stephen Donnelly has warned.

A farmer who started the campaign to have farmers compensated for loss of income due to a ban on agricultural activity in hen harrier conservation areas has declared his interest in running as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the next European Parliament elections.

Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley’s controversial hold on his European seat is set to come under intense scrutiny this evening when a party colleague formally challenges him for the role.

Sinn Féin delegates have voted to allow the party to negotiate with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil after the next election — despite insisting they still want to prioritise forming a “left-wing government” with other parties.

The confidence and supply deal has been further damaged after a widely leaked Fine Gael report accused Fianna Fáil of making €1.5bn worth of promises this year that the country cannot afford.

The Government will formally agree the start to the budget process this week as pressure mounts to bring forward talks on extending the confidence and supply deal with Fianna Fáil.

An extension of the confidence and supply deal between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil needs to be negotiated before October’s budget and in the interests of maintaining stability for the country.

A number of Fianna Fáil frontbench TDs have backed calls for the party to enforce a whip on the party in support of the pending abortion legislation.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is to have individual meetings with TDs and senators who campaigned against repealing the Eighth Amendment in a bid to gain their support to legislate for abortion.

Fine Gael has said its wants Fianna Fáil to agree to a two-year extension to the confidence and supply deal to allow the Government remain in office.

Pro-life Fianna Fáil TDs say they will back any legislation allowing abortion for rape, incest and fatal abnormalities if the referendum is passed in a major concession on the deeply divisive potential post-referendum laws.

Those who vandalise or take down referendum posters should be pursued by the gardaí, Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party have said.

Fianna Fáil has called on the Government to move on proposals made by its own expert group 15 months ago for a dedicated Garda insurance fraud unit.

Government ministers have rounded on Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin for “playing party politics” with Brexit for his own gain.

Fianna Fáil is still opposed to backing Transport Minister Shane Ross’s “dog’s dinner” judicial appointments bill despite the Cabinet agreeing to more than 50 amendments regarding it in a bid to rescue the proposed law from being scrapped.

The Government is to face stiff questioning in the Dáil over the data breach scandal at Independent News and Media (INM) this week, with Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil expected to raise the issue.

Fianna Fáil has ruled out any sort of a “gentleman’s agreement” to extend the confidence and supply deal by six months to deal with Brexit.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has all but ruled out forcing an election this year — but has strongly hinted he is prepared to go to the polls in spring 2019 amid ongoing tension within his party.

A minister has slammed Fianna Fáil moves to trigger a general election as “irresponsible” and “out of order”.

Micheál Martin has denied his reshuffle of the Fianna Fáil frontbench was in preparation for a general election.

The appointment of young Dublin West TD Jack Chambers was the sum total of change to the Fianna Fáil front bench in the reshuffle announced by Micheál Martin on Thursday, writes Daniel McConnell

A small number of Fianna Fáil TDs influenced many others in voting against a bill to allow a referendum on the Eighth Amendment, say party members.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is facing a widescale backbench revolt over his pro-choice abortion views, after half of his party’s TDs voted against allowing any referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

Fianna Fáil is to seek the introduction of legislation that would make anti-roll bars compulsory on all quad bikes following the inquest into the death of a farmer in Mayo.

RTÉ broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan is “most unlikely” to be the Fianna Fáil candidate to become president, party figures have said.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is to discuss demands from Fianna Fáil that vulture funds be regulated after concerns about Permanent TSB selling off 20,000 mortgage loans.

The office of a Fianna Fáil TD has been vandalised by what appears to be members of the pro-life campaign.

Fianna Fáil are to table amending legislation in the next two weeks to extend protections to home borrowers whose loans will be bought by vulture funds, a move that could likely snarl plans by Government-owned Permanent TSB for a huge €4bn disposal of distressed loans.

Fianna Fáil has demanded that the Government must immediately explain how it will protect industries most exposed if a hard Brexit occurs after it emerged a series of sectoral analysis reports, due last year, will not now be published until summertime.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has claimed he is not planning for an election this year and wants to continue the confidence and supply deal with Fianna Fáil when it runs out in October — despite admitting the issue is not “entirely in my control”.

The numbers could not be more stark, nor more difficult to swallow for die-hard Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil members intent on keeping Sinn Féin in the political wilderness.

The Government and Fianna Fáil are set to clash tonight over the botched broadband procurement plan, after cabinet sources said they will refuse the opposition party’s request to review the tendering process.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is using “backroom channels” to try to convince Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to extend the confidence and supply deal beyond October.

The Government has come under fire for not marketing regional towns for foreign direct investment after the Department of Business revealed almost the number of available IDA sites far outnumber those occupied.

At the Fianna Fáil ard fhéis last October, the party’s membership voted overwhelmingly to oppose the repeal of the 8th Amendment.