The United States and Canada, as well as a number of EU countries including France, Belgium and Italy, are among sixteen countries that have been added to the mandatory hotel quarantine list following a Cabinet meeting.

The Eurovision winning songwriter and former RTÉ broadcaster Shay Healy has died at the age of 78.

GP practices are to participate, for the first time, in the Covid-19 vaccination of medically vulnerable people aged between 16 and 69.

Two men have died following separate road crashes in counties Wexford and Galway.

Leaders in Northern Ireland are fearful the chaos that has plagued the region in recent days will continue over the weekend.

The national vaccination campaign is under scrutiny like no project before in Ireland.

Ireland has now been under Level 5 restrictions for over 100 days - since midnight on 30 December 2020. From 12 April however, and on into May, new measures will begin to take effect on a phased basis. Here's what to expect from Monday.

Details of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral are expected to be released this weekend after his death yesterday at the age of 99.

Last night's decision to add several big-ticket countries to the mandatory hotel quarantine list has the appearance of a Government under pressure to act, amid accusations that it was not doing everything possible to combat the arrival of danger...

Groups of people are continuing to congregate at house parties and social gatherings, according to the latest update on breaches of public health regulations from An Garda Síochána.

Philip Mountbatten, a Greek prince, and Duke of Edinburgh was born in 1921 as Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark.

There has been a steady increase in the number of people meeting others outside their household, the latest Social Activity Measure survey by the ESRI suggests.

The High Court will be asked to decide if a woman in mandatory hotel quarantine is being detained by the State.

Five additional walk-in test centres for people who do not have symptoms of Covid-19 are opening from tomorrow.

People who develop symptoms of Covid-19 have been urged to isolate and contact their GP, after the Deputy Chief Medical Officer said anyone exposed to the virus over the Easter weekend "will now be at their most infectious".

George Floyd had heart disease and had consumed drugs but they were not the "direct causes" of his death, the doctor who conducted the autopsy said today at the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent "explosively" erupted this morning, spreading ash across surrounding villages, the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre said.

The EU's drug regulator has said it has launched a review of possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and blood clots after reports of four cases, one of them fatal.

Britain's Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced, saying he "passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle".

There is "no adequate data" on switching Covid-19 vaccines between doses, the World Health Organization has said, after France said under-55s who received an AstraZeneca first jab should get their second from a different vaccine.