Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said he is expecting a revised agreement on proposals to change Ireland's corporate tax rate today.

As Ireland prepares to say farewell to the 12.5% corporate tax rate - for larger companies at least - we've been looking at its likely legacy and what a 15% rate might mean for Ireland.

Previous coronavirus infection gives double jabbed people greater protection, new research suggests.

A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will become the oldest person yet to be tried for Nazi-era crimes in Germany when he goes before court today charged with complicity in mass murder.

Ash from the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano has forced authorities in Spain's La Palma to close the airport on the island, Spanish air traffic operator, Aena said.

The Cabinet will consider today whether to send a Government representative to an event in Armagh which President Michael D Higgins declined to attend.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, following a challenge from the Biden administration.

Around 20 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a shallow earthquake hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of this monring as people slept, government officials said.

The Brazilian agency that regulates health insurance plans has opened an investigation into allegations that a hospital chain tested unproven drugs on elderly Covid-19 patients without their knowledge.

There has been a 22% increase in helpline calls to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) during the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisation has said.

The Tánaiste has told a Fine Gael party meeting that evidence is stacking up that the country will need an extensive vaccine booster programme this Winter.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has announced that 25 additional Irish citizens have been evacuated from Afghanistan.

The Economic and Social Research Institute has become the latest body to forecast a robust recovery in the economy.

A South Korean court has ruled it was unfair for the military to forcibly discharge a soldier over her gender-reassignment surgery, months after she took her own life over the decision.

Global streaming giant Netflix has edited a phone number that appears in its global hit series "Squid Game" after South Koreans who use it or similar combinations were deluged with calls.

An investigation by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board into a boating incident on the River Shannon in Limerick in February 2019, in which a 12-year-old girl was seriously injured, has criticised the absence of proper safety planning and prepare...

One of the country's best known travel companies, Joe Walsh Tours, which ceased trading earlier this year as a result of the impact of travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, is to reopen after the business was bought from its liquidator...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has dismissed suggestions that Budget 2022 is going to be a give-away, warning that "there will not be something for everybody in the audience".

President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes a review of the Defence Forces will address all allegations of bullying, harassment, sexual harassment and discrimination, and not just those raised in the Women of Honour documentary broadcast on RTÉ.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said two of the senior people who recently resigned from the Sláintecare reform programme did not raise any frustrations with him indicating that they planned to quit.