New draft of European fiscal treaty: Non-euro countries must be subject to the eurozone???s budget rules if they want to be invited to euro summits; Irish government may face legal challenge if it tries to avoid referendum

The fourth draft of the new European ‘fiscal treaty’ setting out stricter budgetary rules for the eurozone was published yesterday. The agreement now establishes that, from March 2013, eurozone countries will be allowed to receive bail-outs under the eurozone’s permanent rescue fund, the ESM, only if they have ratified the fiscal treaty – a provision which Germany was parti...

An Irish government minister will be invited to the Battle of the Somme Centenary commemoration at Belfast City Hall.

Irish government anxious to ensure the UK, a key trading partner and ally on a range of matters, does not remain completed isolated from the EU

Irish government launches new initiative to forge closer links with the 70m people who claim Irish ancestry but live abroad

The Irish government has started contributing towards the cost of the major A5 Londonderry to Aughnacloy road upgrade, the BBC learns.

Action by Moody's, the US rating agency, sends Portuguese and Irish government bond yields to euro-era highs and leads to one big European company pulling a debt deal

Mr Kempster, 73, owns permanent interest bearing shares (Pibs) that BoI wants to force him to sell at just 20pc of their cover value as part of a restructuring of the financial institution’s balance sheet by the Irish government. The former farmer, who also used to run a courier company, will claim in the High

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi says that a new Irish government could not 'renege' on what was agreed and ratified in the Irish parliament

The withdrawal of Green party will force Brian Cowen, prime minister, to dissolve parliament and bring forward the date of the general election, which had been set for March 11