Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it will be "very problematic" if the UK again extends unilaterally the grace period for Northern Ireland Protocol checks.

Leaders of the G7 group of wealthy nations are today expected to agree plans to change the way infrastructure projects in the developing world are funded.

Aer Lingus is introducing a temporary replacement schedule for a number of its regional routes, which were cancelled yesterday following the sudden announcement from Stobart Air that it was immediately ceasing its contract to operate the services.

Israeli politicians are to vote today on a "change" coalition government of bitter ideological rivals united by their determination to banish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power.

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US President Joe Biden has marked the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting in a gay nightclub in Florida by saying he would designate the club as a national memorial.

The Dublin International Chamber Music Festival has paid a special tribute to William Butler Yeats on what would have been his 156th birthday today.

At least 12 people have been killed and nearly 140 others injured after a gas line explosion ripped through a residential block in central China's Hubei province, local officials said.

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There has been contact at ministerial level today between the Irish and British governments following the rising number of cases of the more infectious Delta variant in the UK.

In removing Benjamin Netanyahu from the Prime Minister's office, the new eight-party coalition likely to form Israel's new government this weekend will have fulfilled its biggest electoral promise on day one.

Denmark talisman Christian Eriksen received emergency medical treatment on the pitch after collapsing during the first half of the Euro 2020 clash with Finland in Copenhagen.

A new opinion poll suggests that Sinn Féin has increased its support in the last month.

An unnamed bidder paid $28 million at auction today for a seat alongside Jeff Bezos on board the first crewed spaceflight of the billionaire's company Blue Origin next month.

Since Covid-19 first arrived at our shores last year, few sectors of the economy have been as hammered by it as aviation.

Britain will do "whatever it takes" to protect its territorial integrity in the increasingly bitter row over post-Brexit trading with the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, threatening emergency measures if no solution was found.

The loss of the daily Dublin-Kerry regional airline service has been described as a devastating blow for Co Kerry, where tourism and business interests relied heavily on the critical connectivity it provided.

Aer Lingus said it has developed plans to replace some of the Aer Lingus Regional schedule disrupted by the decision of Stobart Air to terminate its contract to run the service.

A US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale yesterday and yet lived to tell the story.

The Irish Ambassador to the US has criticised a New York Times columnist for his use of the term "leprechaun" when referring to Ireland.