A man has been arrested in connection with the capital murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe on 25 January 2013.

A man has been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a woman at her home in Dublin at the weekend.

The number of patients in ICU with coronavirus is now at 46, the lowest level this year and 79% down on the peak of 221 in late January.

Emotions ran high as excited passengers set off on the first flights to take advantage of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand, allowing families split when borders closed almost 400 days ago to finally reunite.

The former president of the European Commission has said he "made a mistake" in listening to David Cameron after being told not to interfere with the Brexit debate in the UK.

All-Ireland hurling champions Limerick will begin their title defence against Cork in a Munster SHC semi-final.

A search is under way in the Comeragh Mountains in Co Waterford for a walker who has been missing since yesterday.

Two men were killed in a crash in Texas while travelling in a Tesla car that police said almost certainly had no one behind the wheel, US media reported.

An eight-year-old girl was rescued in Switzerland yesterday, five days after being kidnapped from her grandmother's French home in a "military" style operation with the alleged involvement of her mother.

Twelve of Europe's biggest soccer clubs and the sport's governing bodies appear to be on a collision course after the clubs announced the formation of a new Super League competition.

An initiative to provide free sanitary products to women and girls affected by period poverty has been announced.

Canada will funnel additional health staff and equipment into virus-hit Ontario as the province battles a worrying spike in Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said.

NASA is hoping to make history this morning when the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.

A wildfire on the slopes of South Africa's Table Mountain forced University of Cape Town students to evacuate, as runaway flames set several campus buildings ablaze and firefighters used helicopters to water-bomb the area.

Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris will today launch a plan that aims to offer 10,000 new apprenticeships every year by 2025.

A jury is to hear closing arguments today in the trial of the white ex-police officer accused of murdering African-American George Floyd.

The European Union will today launch a new digital platform inviting citizens from across Europe to register their views on reforming the bloc.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney will join other EU foreign ministers at a virtual meeting today for talks on the health of the jailed Russian opposition activist, Aexei Navalny.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin received hundreds of emotional letters and emails about the pandemic in the first two months of this year.

There have been 269 new cases of Covid-19 and one further Covid-related death reported by the Department of Health.