Three separate investigations are underway into a series of complaints of suspected sexual abuse of unconscious patients by a doctor at Naas General Hospital.

At least 45 people, including a dozen minors, were killed after a bus caught fire south of the Bulgarian capital today, officials said.

Plans to provide cheaper antigen tests are still being finalised today as discussions on the matter continued last night.

The Garda Representative Association is calling for mandatory sentences for those convicted of attacking gardaí and other frontline workers.

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue along with Junior Minister Pippa Hackett will bring details of a €1.5bn renewable energy project to Cabinet this morning.

A project which will see the planting of 8,000 native trees to represent the number of people seeking asylum in Ireland and living in Direct Provision has been launched in Co Offaly.

The Cabinet will this morning consider proposals to address the impact of price inflation on materials in the delivery of public building projects.

The American actor Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to the production company that made the series House of Cards in which he starred until he was fired over allegations of sexual harassment.

The level of air pollution from traffic last year in Ireland was down on previous years due to the impact of Covid-19 restrictions, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Israel has begun rolling out Covid-19 vaccines for children aged five to 11, becoming one of a handful of countries to inoculate children so young as it seeks to ward off another pandemic wave.

Nearly half the world's population suffers from poor nutrition linked to too much or not enough food, a global assessment said today with wide-ranging impacts on health and the planet.

Cybercrime cost the Irish economy €9.6 billion last year, new research by Grant Thornton has calculated.

The International Monetary Fund has warned El Salvador against using bitcoin as official tender given the risks associated with the cryptocurrency, a day after the country announced plans for the world's first 'Bitcoin City'.

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) is expected to publish later today the outcome of a public consultation examining the process for how the connection of new data centres to the national grid should in future be handled.

French police have detained 15 suspected members of an international migrant smuggling syndicate that helped people illegally cross the Channel to Britain.

The Cabinet Economic Recovery Committee has concluded its discussions on the pandemic supports available to businesses.

The Department of Health has confirmed 5,634 new cases of Covid-19. There are 684 people in hospital with the disease, an increase of 16.

The Minister for Education is to meet senior officials from the country's teacher education colleges with a view to establishing whether final-year students training to be teachers can play a greater role in supporting schools during the current scho...

Lorna McSwiggan Martin is one of the 650 or so people currently on the organ transplant waiting list. The nurse, and mother of two, has kidney disease. For her, the pandemic has been spent largely indoors, wary of catching the virus.

Most Germans will be "vaccinated, cured or dead" from Covid-19 in a few months' time, according to the country's Health Minister Jens Spahn.