UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess, which police believe could be linked to Islamist extremism.

Gardaí in Cork have begun an investigation after a 25-year-old man was seriously injured in a shooting incident in the city last night.

A push to vaccinate students and staff on college campuses will continue this Monday, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris has said.

Around 10 days ago, things were looking quite positive with the Covid-19 trends and then something happened to cause a rise in the key metrics.

The United States has said it has offered to pay unspecified compensation to relatives of 10 people in Afghanistan including seven children who were killed by mistake in a US drone strike as American forces were completing their withdrawal.

A series of unfortunate events - most of which happened thousands of kilometres away - will mean less choice and higher prices in Irish shops this Christmas, writes Adam Maguire.

A new mobile recording studio project is supporting people living in Direct Provision to make their own music.

New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people today as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with Covid-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.

Above all, member states are tired of the protocol and Brexit, but they are also tired of what they see as British bad faith.

NASA is set to launch a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore for the first time a group of rocky bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, gathering new insights into the solar system's formation.

In the run up to the Budget, the Government's plans had been characterised as potentially "risky" and at the limit of what could be considered "prudent" by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. But on Budget night, according to IFAC, the Government had...

The Health Service Executive said it has been asked by gardaí to delay the publication of a report while investigations continue into allegations of sexual abuse by a former resident at a Donegal care home.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,914 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

The Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, has said he believes people will continue to be patient if all the planned easing of restrictions on 22 October do not go ahead.

A 26-year-old woman who has admitted careless driving causing the death of her 17-year-old friend in Co Monaghan almost ten years ago has apologised, although she says she has no recollection of what happened.

The body of a woman reported missing in deadly floods that struck western Germany in July has been found in Rotterdam, likely transported by the Rhine river 300km across the border, according to German police.

The funeral mass for Paddy Moloney, founder member of The Chieftains, has taken place at St Kevin's Church in Glendalough, Co Wicklow.

A woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter and neglect of her newborn baby girl in a trial at Waterford Circuit Criminal Court.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber attack at a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar which left dozens killed and injured, according to a statement posted by the group's Amaq news agency.

A skeleton discovered in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, destroyed along with nearby Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, could offer fresh insights into the disaster, according to experts.