Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said the Government is expecting to receive at least one million Covid-19 vaccine doses per month in April, May and June.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland has called for further engagement and clarifications on the Government's hybrid exams and calculated grades Leaving Certificate plan which was announced yesterday.

After much uncertainty, the Government has moved to deliver clarity to tens of thousands of Leaving Cert students over this year's State exams.

The Cabinet has signed-off on primary legislation governing the introduction of a mandatory hotel quarantine for incoming passengers into the country.

The DUP will have its day out in Westminster next week. The party will get debating time in the House of Commons on Monday. It flows from the DUP petition, seeking the triggering of Article 16, which attracted the necessary 100,000 signatures.

The first patients have arrived at Ireland's first hospital dedicated to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife.

Seven months after blast-off, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will have to negotiate its shortest and most intense phase today: the "seven minutes of terror" it takes to slam the brakes and land the Perseverance rover on a narrow target on the planet's surf...

Researchers have urged governments to delay administering the second dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, which they said had an efficacy of 92.6% after the first dose.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described as "arrogant" and "disappointing" a decision by Facebook to block all media content for users in Australia.

Facebook Inc has blocked Australian users from sharing and viewing news content on its popular social media platform, escalating a dispute with the government over paying media publishers for content.

A national ban on the sale of smoky coal and restrictions on sales of turf and unseasoned wood are among proposed new regulations on solid fuels.

Nearly two million people were still without power in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, with some facing water shortages as a deadly winter cold spell that hit the southeastern part of the country headed east.

New Zealand will distribute free sanitary products in schools to combat "period poverty" among the disadvantaged, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said.

Thai takeaway chain Camile Thai has announced it is to create 220 jobs in Ireland this year.

British banking group NatWest has declined to comment on reports tonight that its board will make a decision on Thursday evening on a proposal to wind down Ulster Bank's operations in the Republic of Ireland.

Ireland's Covid-19 death toll has surpassed 4,000, following confirmation of a further 57 deaths from the Department of Health, as well as 650 additional cases.

Four people are set to be charged in connection with the Oireachtas Golf Society's dinner in Galway last August.

The European Commission has said it had struck a deal for an extra 150 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine this year, nearly doubling the number of shots secured from the US biotech firm for 2021.

The Executive Director of the World Health Organisation's Health Emergencies Programme has warned that after frontline workers and the most vulnerable are vaccinated, reopening society will need to be managed carefully.

Bank of Ireland is to refund tens of thousands of its mortgage customers after it discovered that it had overcharged them.