More than 30,000 people availed of the walk-in vaccination centres that operated around the country over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Kellie Harrington has guaranteed herself an Olympic lightweight medal after beating Algeria's Imane Khelif on a unanimous decision to win bronze.

A missing Belarusian activist has been found dead in a park in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, police have said, adding they have now opened a murder investigation.

A man in his 80s has died in a road collision involving three cars in Co Laois.

Authorities in Wuhan said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year.

A Belarusian Olympic athlete is sheltering in Poland's embassy in Tokyo after being offered safe passage to Warsaw, as the US slammed her team's attempt to send her home.

An estimated 4.7 million fewer girls are expected to be born globally in the next ten years because of sex-selective practices in countries with a cultural preference for male offspring, research showed.

The Minister for Agriculture says he fully understands the frustrations children and parents are feeling around communions and confirmations, but that public health advice is very clear on the matter.

Bank of Ireland is reporting a strong recovery in its business performance with a €465 million underlying profit before tax, according to the bank's interim results for the first half of the year.

The presence of Namibian teenagers Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma in the Olympic women's 200 metres final weeks after they were banned from the 400m due to excess levels of testosterone has reopened the debate about DSD athletes.

Andrew Coscoran has qualified for the semi-finals of the men's 1500 metres in Tokyo as one of the fastest runners outside of the automatic qualifiers.

Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi has been inaugurated as president of Iran, a country whose hopes of shaking off a dire economic crisis hinges on reviving a nuclear deal with world powers.

Olympic medalists Paul O'Donovan, Fintan McCarthy and Emily Hegarty are among six athletes who were welcomed back to Skibbereen by the local rowing club at a function in the town this evening.

Kellie Harrington secured at least a bronze medal overnight, while US superstar Simone Biles is ready to make her return to action. Follow it all here.

Ireland's Oliver Dingley missed out on qualification for the semi-finals of the 3m springboard at Tokyo 2020, finishing 25th overall in the preliminary round.

Almost 300 fraudulent Covid-19 passport claims have been rejected in Northern Ireland.

Common cranes hatched two baby chicks earlier this year, the first recorded birth of crane chicks in Ireland in over 300 years.

Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a report about the alleged removal of potential artefacts from a protected Spanish Armada shipwreck.

German prosecutors have said they are examining a possible manslaughter investigation arising from failed or delayed warnings about July's deadly floods.