Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and European Council president Donald Tusk have ridiculed Britain’s latest Brexit stand-off solution, saying Theresa May’s plan to solve the issue is “having your cake and eating it” and “an illusion”.

Bowing out as leader of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams’ denial of IRA involvement continues to anger many of his political contemporaries, but all acknowledge his skills in delivering a peace deal, writes Political Reporter Elaine Loughlin.

Redrawing the North's border would be a “fatal mistake”, ex-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald privately warned Margaret Thatcher, secret files have revealed.

ALAN MCGEE’S record label Creation created the sounds of a generation before it folded up in 1999. It included acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, as well as his oldest and best friend Bobby Gillespie’s band, Primal Scream. McGee, who was born in 1960, a year before Gillespie, grew up around the corner from him in a working-class neighbourhood in Glasgow.

It’s every parent’s nightmare: To get home from an event and realise that a child is missing.

David Cameron is under pressure to reveal details of his meetings with Tory donors in the wake of explosive claims that access to the British Prime Minister could be secured by making large donations to Conservative Party.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson stayed as a guest of Prime Minister David Cameron at Chequers in March, it was disclosed today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was today in France, following the sudden death of his father Ian yesterday.

DAVID CAMERON’S father, Ian, died yesterday after suffering a stroke while on holiday in France.

I HAVE to take issue with the headline and conclusions of the article by Shaun Connolly – ‘TDs v MPs: 33% less work for 20% more pay’ – comparing the service, pay and conditions of British MPs and Irish TDs (August 31).

THE catastrophe that has struck Pakistan is gargantuan, but the Irish aid agencies and Government responded with customary spontaneity and wholehearted engagement, supported by the generosity and compassion of the Irish people.

Pakistan’s intelligence agency has cancelled planned talks with security experts in the UK in the wake of David Cameron’s claim that elements within the country were promoting the export of terror, it was confirmed today.

David Cameron flew into Afghanistan today for his first visit to the country since taking office.

The expulsion of activists detained during the storming of an aid flotilla heading for the Gaza Strip was under way today.

Tony Blair today rejected claims that he struck a private deal with President George Bush over Iraq 11 months before the invasion.

The 9/11 attacks on the United States changed the “calculus of risk” posed by Saddam Hussein dramatically, Tony Blair said today.

A future Conservative Party government in the UK that does not deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles risks fresh violence in the region, a leading commentator warned today.

A PRESTIGIOUS dresden figurine manufacturing company in Co Limerick is to close with the loss of about 15 jobs.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to meet Pope Benedict XVI before he leaves office next week in what media say involves his preparations for converting to Roman Catholicism.

Previous deadlines in relation to the North may have been rather like moveable feasts, but November 24, as set down by both the Irish and British Governments for the restoration of devolved government, may not be quite as mutable.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night made it clear he expects the push to restore power sharing in the North to go right down to the November deadline.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are to meet tomorrow to discuss their latest push to restore devolution in the North.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is expected to meet British prime minister Tony Blair in Chequers tomorrow as both prepare for the crucial two months of talks that may deliver a lasting political settlement for the North of Ireland.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to meet the Rev Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams later this week to assess the chances of a return to devolution in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

The Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said this morning that he will not be lectured to by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, or by any politician.

Sinn Féin must be warned that the IRA’s activities must end following accusations that it was behind the £26.5m (€38.1m) Northern Bank raid, ministers in the UK were told tonight.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will this week warn Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams that the Provisional IRA must cease all paramilitary and criminal activity, if republicans are to be included in Ulster devolution.

The Iraq coalition will overcome the wave of terrorist-style attacks destabilising the post-Saddam Hussein state to help it emerge as a free nation, President George Bush vowed today.

England’s World Cup winners will fly home to a heroes' welcome on Tuesday.

Tony Blair was today embarking on a series of meetings just a day after hospital treatment for a heart problem.

Prime Minister Tony Blair was today admitted to hospital where he underwent treatment for an irregular heartbeat.

NORTHERN IRELAND parties still want elections sooner rather than later, the Taoiseach said yesterday, but the same obstacles remain to be overcome.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern met his British counterpart Tony Blair tonight as government efforts to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly were stepped up.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing to meet Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today, amid frantic diplomatic efforts to restore Northern Ireland’s Assembly.

The prospects for early elections for a new assembly in Northern Ireland were assessed in Dublin tonight by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the SDLP.

An investigation was under way today into the deaths of three Royal Military Police servicemen in an ambush in Iraq’s second city Basra.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair summoned crisis talks to discuss how the Government should handle the news that David Kelly may have leaked information to the media, the inquiry into the scientist's death heard today.

Britain's prime minister Tony Blair is holding a second day of talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Britain and Russia have formed a working group to combat global terror, Prime Minister Blair announced tonight.

Prime Minister Tony Blair was today poised to announce the deployment of British ground troops in Afghanistan before the onset of winter.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be ‘‘completely straight’’ with the British public on what casualties to expect when troops go into action on the ground in Afghanistan, Downing Street said today.

President Bush is due to hold what is being seen as a ‘council of war’ meeting with his national security team at Camp David later today.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today gearing up for a coalition-building visit to Washington and New York later this week as the world waits to see what action the United States will take over the terrorist attacks.

US President George Bush was today paying his first visit to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.