The Taoiseach is meeting party leaders in Belfast today for talks on restoring power-sharing at Stormont.
It’s now just 11 days until the deadline for an Executive to be reformed – or another election will have to be called.
The DUP is refusing to end its boycott of the North’s political institutions until its issues with the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol are resolved.
Alliance Leader Naomi Long said today that she wants to see fundamental changes to political structures in the North: