The Tánaiste has defended the €130,000 salary proposed for directly elected mayors in Cork, Limerick and Waterford, insisting that’s what’s required to attract the right candidates.

The Tánaiste says the Government is committed to supporting Irish communities abroad.

The Tánaiste is starting a working visit to Jordan today.

The Tánaiste has called on the Russian Federation to cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

The expulsion of an Irish diplomat from Russia has been described as regrettable and unjustified by the Tánaiste.

By early yesterday afternoon, the Tánaiste’s proposal for a two-thirds majority to protect in perpetuity changes he has influenced in the Government’s proposed abortion legislation lay tossed aside with the remains of lunch and the Strategic Communication Unit.

The planned transition period for Britain when it leaves the EU may has to be extended beyond a deadline agreed by Brussels, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney says circumstances for terminating a pregnancy must be justified and that, while the Constitution should be amended, he does not favour unrestricted abortions.

Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald directly contacted the Garda commissioner in 2015 to raise concerns that issues relating to whistleblower Maurice McCabe were not being resolved.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has voiced concerns about the welfare of the unborn over proposals to legalise abortions in all cases up to 12 weeks of gestation.

The Tánaiste is working on an initiative to save the stalled Cork event centre project from collapse amid concerns that an extra €10m in State aid may not be enough to get the controversial project over the line.

Tanáiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he hopes the resignation of Barry McElduff will help create space to restore talks in the North.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney remains resolute that Ireland will not back down on a Brexit border agreement being stalled by the DUP.

The email accounts of former minister for justice Frances Fitzgerald and her political advisers were not examined in the recent trawl for documents relevant to the Charleton Tribunal.

The Tánaiste says the Government do not want to veto the progression of Brexit talks, but that more progress on the border issue is needed.

Frances Fitzgerald could be appointed as the head of Fine Gael's abortion referendum campaign as part of her return to front-line politics.

In case you haven't heard by now Frances Fitzgerald has resigned as Tánaiste.

Whistleblower Maurice McCabe will forever be linked with some of the biggest names in Irish politics being brought to crisis point.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald’s position in Government was last night deemed to be “untenable” by the opposition and many of her own ministerial colleagues as talks to avoid a general election entered the 11th hour.

Having called for the head of Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald last Thursday, he has spent the past four days seeking a way out of causing a general election.

Opposition parties say new documents on what Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald knew about a garda strategy to discredit Maurice McCabe make her position untenable.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald faces mounting pressure from her Fine Gael ministerial colleagues after fresh information around her knowledge of the Maurice McCabe scandal emerged.

The office of the Attorney General did not give crisis-hit Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald legal advice when she received the May 15, 2015, email raising concerns over the deeply controversial garda legal team strategy against Maurice McCabe.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald is fighting for her political life as the Government’s handling of garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has yet again engulfed the coalition in controversy.

The Taoiseach has dismissed calls for the Tánaiste’s resignation amid fresh controversies over the treatment of Garda whisleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

She is either the least curious justice minister in the history of the post or else she is smart enough to know when not to ask a question if you don’t want to know the answer.

It took the Department of Justice and the Tánaiste four days to tell the Taoiseach about an email which revealed efforts by gardaí to discredit Sergeant Maurice McCabe at an inquiry.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has claimed she forgot about an email revealing a legal strategy to discredit Maurice McCabe because she was told she didn’t need to act on it.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald is under fresh pressure to explain why she only learned of the strategy to undermine Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe a year after his cross-examination at a state commission in 2015.

Was the Tánaiste kept in the dark by the gardaí or by her own officials? We await the answer with interest, writes Daniel McConnell.

The last ground breaking research was published in 2002 and did not include male victims or social media.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has backed calls for the Government to find €1m to fund implementation of a 2002 national sexual abuse report, saying a “large-scale” review of the scale of the problem is “worthwhile”.

It is all part of the International Day of the Girl.

A major push to win new business with Mexico, Korea, Canada, and Japan is to be made as part of the Government’s Brexit-proofing efforts.