European firm Bauer Media Audio has agreed a deal to buy Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group in a deal believed to be in excess of €100m.

A teenager was shot and seriously injured in the south inner city area of Dublin last night.

The National Clinical Director of the BreastCheck Programme has said there is a huge price to pay for the pandemic and a lot of ground has been lost in all services including health, mental health and education.

Finland will go into a three-week lockdown starting on 8 March, Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said, as the country faces a rising number of coronavirus cases.

There were 135 Covid-19 patients in intensive care at 8pm yesterday, sharply down on the night before due to a high number of deaths.

It has been confirmed that Kelsey Grammer will reprise his role as Dr Frasier Crane in a new series of comedy classic Frasier on US streaming service Paramount+.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has found that the Government has persistently blurred the boundary between legal requirements and public health guidance in its response to Covid-19.

The Data Protection Commission handled more than 10,000 cases last year, a 9% increase on the previous year.

European Union leaders meet today and tomorrow under pressure to speed up Europe's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, and divided over border closures and what introducing vaccine travel certificates could mean.

Australia's parliament has passed landmark legislation requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world.

Poor communications and project management in the Department of Agriculture has led to difficulties in the forestry sector, according to a leading expert who has devised a plan to clear a backlog of licence applications.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has denounced "an attempted military coup" and called on supporters to take to the streets, after the country's top brass demanded his resignation.

The National Competitiveness Council has said key actions must be taken to reduce costs in the Irish liability insurance market, including bringing personal injury award levels in line with other jurisdictions.

They're a well-worn pair of size 9, bright blue wool slippers with a wolf's head stitched on the toe caps

Old and unsuitable buildings are impacting the delivery of high-quality mental health care, according to the Mental Health Commission.

A man in his 40s is due in court in relation to the seizure of €204,000 worth of cannabis seized in Trim, Co Meath.

An Irish family has won an appeal in the highest ecclesiastical court in Britain to have an inscription in Irish on their mother's grave.

The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe Covid-19, including newer variants, according to documents released by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said there are currently around 1,000 to 3,500 international arrivals into the country each day, while 10,500 people arrived at Dublin Airport last week.