A woman, believed to be in her late 20s, has died in a drowning incident on the Longford-Cavan border, while a man in his 70s also drowned in a separate incident in Co Leitrim.

Government guidelines on how indoor hospitality will operate from Monday are due to be published shortly.

China has rejected a WHO plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.

Bank of Ireland has agreed a deal to buy the wealth management, capital markets and associated businesses of J&E Davy Stockbrokers for an enterprise value of €440m.

Australia's prime minister has apologised for the country's glacial vaccine rollout, as Sydney recorded a record jump in new coronavirus infections.

Norway today marks the 10th anniversary of the worst massacre in its modern history, as church bells toll for the 77 people murdered by Anders Behring Breivik.

Met Éireann's Status Orange high temperature warning for six counties remains in place, with temperatures set to top 30C in some areas.

A study shows visitors feeding the deer at Phoenix Park is having a huge negative impact on the wild herd.

Garda National Economic Crime Bureau has issued a warning about a new 'smishing' scam.

Thousands of residents have fled blazes in western Canada with several hundred soldiers scheduled to deploy to fight this year's virulent and early fires, which are wreaking havoc across portions of western North America.

Tangier Island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay is shrinking due to a combination of coastal erosion and rising sea levels.

The UK government has outlined several possible new arrangements with the EU to ensure there are fewer 'burdens' on the movement of goods in both directions between Britain and Northern Ireland.

Britain's Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he was concerned by a so called 'pingdemic' in which hundreds of thousands of workers have been told to self-isolate after being alerted by the NHS Covid app.

Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated from flood-hit regions of central China as officials raised the death toll from heavy rains that have deluged Henan province for almost a week to 33.

Seven Hong Kong government supporters who took part in a violent assault on democracy supporters and commuters have been jailed for what the trial judge described as an "indiscriminate attack".

The show director for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has been fired on the eve of the event over a decades-old skit referencing the Holocaust, in the latest blow for organisers of the pandemic-delayed Games.

Britain has demanded that the EU agrees to rewrite a deal overseeing the post-Brexit trade involving Northern Ireland just a year after it was agreed with the bloc, a call immediately rejected by Brussels.

The Cabinet has agreed that indoor service in bars and restaurants can resume on Monday 26 July for those who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19.

There have been 1,378 new cases of Covid-19 notified to the Department of Health. The number of people in hospital who have tested positive for coronavirus is 96.

Ireland is entering the Delta wave with a lot of people vaccinated. We all know this wave will be different, Mark Coughlan explains. But how different will it be?