Tánaiste Simon Harris has said the country must engage with the future of the island ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan said a Reform UK government could hasten the timeline for calling referenda on reunification.

Fine Gael leader Simon Harris was speaking after announcing at the weekend that his party will develop a blueprint for a unified island.

Fine Gael will develop a new ‘blueprint for a unified island’ by November, the Tánaiste has announced.

Mary Lou McDonald said the clause around a border poll was the ‘beating heart’ of the Good Friday Agreement.

Sinn Féin argues that the conversation on Irish unity is ‘well under way across society’.

‘It’s something I believe fundamentally in,’ the leader of the Labour Party said

The Fine Gael presidential candidate referenced her Protestant heritage at an event launching her campaign

The presidential candidate said she believed people in NI should be allowed to vote in the Áras election.

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach last year, said it is possible Mr Farage will be prime minister in four years or nine years time.

The SDLP Stormont leader was speaking ahead of an opposition motion in the Assembly, nine years on from the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Cathal Crowe made the remarks during a Dáil session to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The reform would see MLAs and Northern Ireland MPs contributing to debates.

Mary Lou McDonald said the incoming government in Dublin must also take ‘urgent’ steps to start planning for unity

The former SDLP leader Mr Eastwood said conversations about a unity referendum had “moved to a different level” since Brexit

Leader Mary Lou McDonald said it is ‘still very much game on’

The UK Government is obliged to call a referendum in Northern Ireland if there is evidence of a shift in opinion in favour of Irish unity.

Mary Lou McDonald is hoping to lead Sinn Fein into government in Ireland after the election on November 29.

The former taoiseach outlined a series of proposals on the constitutional question at an event in Derry on Thursday.

The Sinn Féin leader described recent comments on Irish reunification made by the former Taoiseach as welcome but ‘belated’.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald repeated her prediction that there would be a Border poll by 2030

The Taoiseach said it was more important for the British and Irish governments to support the powersharing institutions at Stormont.

Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy called for an ‘honest and structured dialogue’ on constitutional change.

Gavin Robinson also denied his party has performed a U-turn on endorsing the Windsor Framework

Simon Harris praised the work of the Government’s Shared Island Unit.

The former taoiseach also said financial planning needs to start for a united Ireland

Northern Ireland’s First Minister was taking part in the Ireland’s Future event in Belfast

The former taoiseach is set to take part in a conversation event with the New Ireland Commission on Tuesday.

The former speaker of the US House of Representatives visited the US ambassador to Ireland.

Speaking in Belfast, the Prime Minister said ‘constitutional change’ was not a priority.

The Sinn Féin vice president became the first-ever nationalist to assume the post of First Minister on Saturday.

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald insisted a border poll was a possibility within the lifetime of the next Dáil