Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said giving workers the choice to retire from 65 is a mark of a "progressive and civilised society".

Labour leader Alan Kelly has said that the vote of no-confidence in Simon Coveney is not a priority for the party and there are bigger issues for the Dáil when it resumes for the autumn session.

Third-level students in Limerick are staying in hotels because they cannot find suitable accommodation in the city.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has said the Government should abandon its plans for tax cuts in the upcoming Budget and instead prioritise increases in public expenditure on housing, healthcare and childcare.

Lone parents and their children account for 53% of all homeless families and are much more likely to experience poor housing than other household types, according to a new report.

The family of a Co Meath man with Stage 4 brain cancer have appealed to the Australian ambassador to Ireland to help them get into Australia to see him.

Southern Chinese cities have closed schools and ordered testing for millions in a race to curb a new Covid-19 outbreak which has sparked concerns over infections among unvaccinated schoolchildren.

The British government has said it is delaying the implementation of some post-Brexit border controls which had been due to come into force at the start of October.

Heavy rains fell across the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana as tropical storm Nicholas strengthened into a hurricane before making landfall, bringing the threat of widespread flooding, power outages and storm surges.

Cash-strapped property group China Evergrande Group said it has engaged advisers to examine its financial options and warned of default risks amid plunging property sales, sending its stock and bond prices lower.

South Korea's competition regulator has fined Alphabet's Google 207 billion won ($176.64m) for blocking customised versions of its Android operating system (OS).

Hong Kong will create a host of new national security offences, a senior official has confirmed, building on a law Beijing imposed last year that has criminalised much dissent and transformed the city.

Chinese housing giant Evergrande is one of the country's largest private conglomerates and world's most indebted property developer, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy after years of rapid growth and a buying spree.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 1,394 confirmed cases of Covid-19. The number in hospital has risen six to 321, of whom 58 are in ICU.

An inquest has begun at the Dublin District Coroner's Court into the death of baby Laurence Somers on 28 January 2018, five days after his birth.

Britain's Prince Andrew plans to challenge a US court's jurisdiction over a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting and battering her two decades ago, according to a court filing today.

The Criminal Assets Bureau returned over €5 million of crime cash to the State last year, according to its annual report released today.

Minister for Arts Catherine Martin has said the numbers are moving in the right direction for a full opening of the live entertainment sector on 22 October.

Lawyers for convicted murderer Graham Dwyer have argued at Europe's highest court that Ireland's legal regime for using the mobile phone data used in his conviction had minimal protections and was contrary to the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.