The Tánaiste said the government will not rush into imposing new restrictions

'Everything would be done to avoid another lockdown,' says Tánaiste

Around half of all healthcare workers and half of the people in their 70s have now received a booster jab, minister tells Dáil

In the most direct threat yet from Downing Street, Mr Johnson left Mr Martin in no doubt as to his willingness to press the pause button on the protocol

Costs have already escalated to €1.4bn and minister says final cost is some distance away 

Micheál Martin called on local councils to show “common sense” and ensure that anyone who finds work is not evicted from emergency accommodation

Earlier this week, the Ethiopian government informed Ireland’s embassy in Addis Ababa that four of its six Irish diplomats must leave the country within a week

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald called for a temporary three-month waiver of VAT on energy bills in response to spiralling costs

Education Minister confirms the tests would be issued by the HSE

Antigen test plan stalled as officials continue to hammer out details

Roderic O'Gorman defended the decision to block children who spent less than six months in mother and baby homes from the redress scheme

Leo Varadkar has said the Government's objective is to get subsidised antigen tests down to €2-3 per test

The Dáil hears that punishing the farming and ICT sectors is 'not the way' to improve Ireland's climate performance 

Next February will mark 1,000 days since people in Limerick voted to establish the office of a directly elected mayor

Wednesday's Leaders' Questions focused largely on the health service and highlighted shortfalls in the testing service

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will seek Government approval to subsidise antigen testing, particularly for poorer families

During his absence from Dáil Éireann, his chamber duties will be overseen by Leas- Cheann Comhairle, Catherine Connolly TD

Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister, Naomi Long, has said that “social media needs to do better” after she became a target of abuse online.

Attorney General is working to 'streamline' planning laws

The figures, described as 'shocking', do not include children who are wrongly taken, often by one parent, to countries not signed up to the Hague Convention

John McGuinness claims the Taoiseach criticised him for 'abusing Dáil privilege' in a speech about the Grace case, though the Taoiseach's office denies this

Simon Covneney: 'If we have to act, to protect society and to protect our health system and hospitals, then of course, we will do that'

Taoiseach said talks are progressing and there is a 'genuine desire' to get a solution across the line

Simon Coveney: 'Elements of the protocol, rely on the implementation of EU law and EU regulations. I don't see how the EU can outsource the arbitration on EU rules and regulations to a court outside of the EU.'

Unionists have reacted angrily to former taoiseach's comment that people in 'East Belfast and in the ghettos and in the areas where you’re likely to get trouble' did not understand the Brexit trade agreement

Edwin Poots claimed the EU created an 'artificial threat to the EU single market'

Cabinet minister Mr Gove expressed confidence that talks can progress without the need for the UK to trigger Article 16, which would suspend elements of the post-Brexit trading arrangements

New measures on the Brexit Protocol will create an “express line” on trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, resulting in a “win-win situation” for all, the EU’s lead negotiator has said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the UK and EU need to “knuckle down” and resolve the dispute over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangements.

A meeting of the British-Irish Council will take place in Wales on Friday.

Sinn Féin had the third-largest declared spend followed by Labour, the Green Party and the Social Democrats

The damning report has found the appointment was conducted in "a very poor way" and made 14 recommendations

Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann has been targeted in sinister graffiti. His name was daubed on a wall in the Newell Road area of Dungannon along with a target mark.

The Government has thus far rejected the idea that free tests should be widely available, with plans to subsidise the cost in motion.

There has been condemnation after Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister was targeted with a torrent of “vile misogynistic” abuse on social media.

'The coming weeks will be uncertain, with no guarantees,' the Taoiseach told his parliamentary party meeting tonight.

Government has 'gone well beyond the recommendations of the commission in respect of the payment scheme', Taoiseach tells Dáil

Alan Kelly claimed Micheál Martin had told him that teachers would not have to restrict their movements for five days under the new Covid household contact rules

Introducing new restrictions is the "last thing" the Government wants to do, but it cannot be ruled out, Simon Coveney has said.

Oireachtas health committee continued scrutiny of the proposed Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019

The scheme, which will include an enhanced medical card and two types of financial payment, will not open until late next year

'Unfortunately and it's hard to say this, but the situation is difficult and we're going to have to get through a difficult winter'

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy said the Government had ignored advice around ventilation and had 'abandoned contact tracing and testing in our schools'" and had banked on vaccination alone ending the pandemic.'

Financial payments and enhanced medical card among measures to be signed off on Tuesday

The average time parents are waiting for an initial assessment of their children stands at more than 17 months, despite a legal requirement for the assessment to be completed within six months