Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised those predicting a crash “around every corner” amid warnings from spending watchdogs over excess Government spending.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised those predicting a crash “around every corner” amid warnings from spending watchdogs and economists over excess government spending.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Ireland must be wise to the possibility of British prime minister Boris Johnson calling a snap general election in the autumn.

Ireland remains "completely off course" to achieve its 2020 and 2030 climate change targets, the Climate Change Advisory Council has warned.

Further significant rises will be necessary over the coming decade to tackle climate change linked to carbon dioxide, an advisory panel added.

Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and incoming British prime minister Boris Johnson must avoid public spats and commit to restoring power-sharing in the North, Fianna Fail's Micheal Martin has said.

Structures are not in place for a border poll and a national dialogue is needed to ensure all voices are heard ahead of any such vote.

Britain's likely next prime minister Boris Johnson has been warned he will not be able to win the Brexit stand-off by "sloganeering" and must put his "ego" to one side if he is to find a solution to the crisis.

A man is to be charged with the murder of former Sinn Féin member and British agent Denis Donaldson.

The double standards and discomfort of Michael D Higgins’ self-appointed adherents is comedy gold, writes Gerard Howlin

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed that the Government wants to nail down a date for the next general election and that it would “make sense” to go to the polls in June 2020.

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has raised concerns about the North being left in limbo without peace and infrastructure funds as attention focuses on efforts to avoid a hard border.

A successful business making pens which have been bought by famous people around the globe was almost bankrupted by an uncle of the two teenage entrepreneurs.

Phone company Eircom has been fined €10,500 after it admitting overcharging customers.

Just who is going to replace the Garda chief and are the force’s organisational problem solved with Nóirín O’Sullivan’s shock departure, asks Cormac O’Keeffe

If a well-known beer did ringside seats, they would probably be like this — right in front of the cattle ring with a freshly-poured pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

MEP Brian Hayes has called for a grand coalition of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in government for five years in order to hold the centre ground and a majority in the Dáil.

It’s Tuesday night and dotted around the bar is an EU commissioner, a former education minister, the secretary general of a government department as well as a scattering of local and national politicians.

Ireland’s healthcare system is crumbling with overstretched acute hospitals attempting to treat patients with equipment that is increasingly obsolete, consultants have warned.

An Garda Síochána is in crisis and must urgently change now or risk failing to ever reform, the head of the commission into the future of policing has warned.

The head of AIB has warned that Brexit will weaken Irish financial institutions as foreign firms relocating here will poach the best talent with better pay offers.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has revealed that the money has been found to pay for €170m in water charge refunds and departments will not be asked to cut services to help foot the bills.

Lucinda Creighton has said she will not get involved in any campaign ahead of next year’s referendum on abortion.

Gerry Adams is taking action against the BBC over allegations about the murder of an MI5 spy in the IRA.

VIEWED in isolation, the accusations against and attacks on Gerry Adams this week were unfair. 

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has categorically rejected new claims that he authorised the murder of an IRA double agent Denis Donaldson in 2006, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) issued 12 Closure Orders and one Prohibition Order on food businesses in July.

A 74-year-old man from Scotland has been charged with withholding information in relation to the murder of IRA spy Denis Donaldson.

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 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.

A border poll may undermine relations with the North and would be “unsuccessful”, Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has insisted.

Thousands of social media posts of suspected Islamic extremists living in Ireland are being viewed every week, security sources have told the Irish Examiner.

The head of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has said its growth figures, which were dubbed ‘leprechaun economics’, do not reflect reality and a new system of measuring the economy is now being developed.

The Government intends to use the possibility of a future united Ireland referendum as a bargaining tool to secure a special post-Brexit deal.

A Sinn Féin TD says it's "quite possible" that his party will have a new leader within the next five years.

The new system of politics needs to be reviewed according to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

Donegal County Council has launched an initiative to secure land for social housing.

I watched Bressie on Claire Byrne Live recently. Also on the show was a beautiful young lady, Michelle Ross, who spoke about losing her brother, Derek, to suicide.

Aspiring journalist Emma O’Flanagan was prophetic when she wrote “politics is a mess” — long before the outcome of the general election was known.

A large number of people from Co Donegal who applied for a postal vote in the 1985 local elections were ineligible, a Garda investigation concluded.

Donegal team manager Rory Gallagher has expressed his disappointment his predecessor Jim McGuinness has chosen to comment on the breakup of the 2012 All-Ireland-winning management team.

Surely all investment should be accompanied by a highly public cost benefit analysis before we commit, writes Fergus Finlay