Decision imperils agreement to prop up minority Conservative government

Varadkar government holds line despite chaos in Westminster over Irish ‘backstop’

Bloc nations pore over draft withdrawal pact that could form basis of UK-EU relations 

Prospective agreement would reward Dublin for year of diplomacy but no deal poses threat

Paris says jet seized as ‘last resort’ in dispute over repayment of regional funding

Irish PM has nudged Theresa May away from previous tougher stance but risks remain

Cede ground to get deal, PM will tell Eurosceptics, with Irish compromise on table

Brussels’ support for Dublin’s plans to avoid a hard border is the result of two years of painstaking diplomacy

Labour veteran wins 56% of vote to beat five challengers for second term

Voters also expected to remove blasphemy laws from constitution

Bernard Byrne to leave state-controlled Irish lender and join Dublin stockbroker Davy

Veteran leftwinger leads against scattered field — including TV personalities

Theresa May’s reliance on party for her survival leaves her exposed to the mood in Ballymena 

UK and EU consider extending transition deal to defuse dispute over Irish border backstop

In return, Theresa May must accept ‘two-tier’ backstop to avoid a hard Irish border

Concern mounts that officials in London are failing to understand implications for province

Theresa May says deal achievable but Britain cannot be kept in backstop indefinitely

Taoiseach says he always believed a deal this month was unlikely

If efforts to agree backstop deal fail, Ireland is set to suffer economic shock