KBC Bank Ireland has agreed a deal worth about €5 billion which will see "substantially" all of its performing loans and its deposit book sold to Bank of Ireland Group.

US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico, police have said.

Late night entertainment is set to reopen across the country tonight, after new safety guidelines were signed-off between the Government and industry representatives.

A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% last year.

Friday, 22 October: The day and date were to have far greater significance, but there is still a lot to be positive about. Almost as if it was planned this way, it is all coinciding nicely with the beginning of the October bank holiday weekend. And, ...

250 additional jobs are to be created by Edwards Lifesciences in Limerick over the next four years.

The further easing of restrictions has led to a "certain anxiety" among GPs and healthcare workers who are concerned about the impact of rising Covid cases on hospitals, a member of NPHET has said.

Ukraine has reached a second successive daily record of new coronavirus infections and deaths, the health ministry said.

Over 5,700 people who were homeless, at risk of homelessness, or suffering ill health and social exclusion because of addiction were helped last year by Novas, which has services in Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, Kerry and Dublin.

EU leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels have supported taking tougher action against Poland over its challenge to the role of the European Court of Justice.

More than half of double-vaccinated blood cancer patients are left without effective protection against coronavirus, new research has found.

An Alabama man convicted of murdering a woman during a robbery 30 years ago has been executed.

The mysterious deaths of a family and their dog on a California hiking trail that baffled investigators for weeks was down to excessive heat, the local sheriff said.

The Department of Health has been notified of 2,029 new cases of Covid-19. There are 448 patients with the virus in hospital, 88 of whom are in intensive care.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney will meet Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford in Cardiff today, for the inaugural Wales-Ireland Forum - an annual meeting of Irish and Welsh ministers and officials.

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has written to the families of the crew of R116 to let them know that the department will cover their "reasonable legal expenses" incurred as a result of the review into the accident.

Support partners of women attending maternity services will be allowed access to in-patient areas in all maternity services from 1 November.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the current rise in Covid numbers would have pushed Ireland into a full lockdown, had it not been for the rate of vaccination in the country.

Chief executive Paul Reid led the HSE's first media briefing for many weeks today, as he and colleagues provided the latest update on Covid-19 in hospitals, testing and tracing and vaccinations.

Catholic Primate Archbishop Eamon Martin has told an Armagh church service to mark the formation of Northern Ireland that partition 100 years ago polarised people on the island of Ireland.