The Minister for Children has defended the deletion of audio files of witness testimony at the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, saying it was done to protect people who wanted to speak confidentially to the inquiry.

The Taoiseach has said it is very important that all those involved in talks around the format of this year's Leaving Certificate do everything they can to bring clarity for students.

The UK are currently World Vaccinator champions leaving the EU in the shade, with Team Boris vaccinating more than three times the population of the Republic of Ireland so far.

Legislation leading to the introduction of mandatory quarantining at hotels in Ireland will be presented to the Cabinet this morning by Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.

Fears are growing in Japan, where an inoculation drive against Covid-19 will begin today, that millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine could be wasted due to a shortage of special syringes that maximise the number of shots used.

The European Space Agency is launching a recruitment programme for the first time in 11 years and is strongly encouraging women to apply.

Britain's Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to take part in an "intimate conversation" with Oprah Winfrey on US television next month.

The banking industry's representative association, Banking and Payments Federation Ireland, has published a report claiming Irish banks are forced to hold three times the amount of capital as its European counterparts.

Figures from the Health Service Executive show that the pressure on hospitals due to Covid-19 continues to reduce.

The Government is expected to announce a review today of the legislation setting up the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

Trócaire has said the inability to distribute its Lenten collection boxes through schools and at church services threatens to leave the charity with a €6 million shortfall in its income this year.

Video-sharing app TikTok was hit with multiple complaints from EU consumer groups today for allegedly violating the bloc's consumer laws and for failing to protect children from hidden advertising and inappropriate content.

The day before Lent began may have involved feasting and food, but it certainly wasn't a good day for single people

A renewed effort to build consensus on the island of Ireland around a shared future will come before Cabinet today.

An engineering graduate from Co Down hopes to aid millions of people after helping create a robotic glove which uses artificial intelligence to boost muscle grip.

The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party has voted former Senator Gerry Horkan to be its candidate in one of the two upcoming Seanad by-elections.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm has been released from prison.

The Department of Health has been notified of no new deaths, with 821 new confirmed Covid-19 cases.

From advice to exercise alone to a caution that we must not squander the progress we have made so far in suppressing Covid-19, here are six things we learned from this evening's Covid-19 briefing.

There will be at least one vaccination centre in each county, with 37 in total, according to new details on the vaccination programme published by Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.