Some members of the public can schedule their own appointment for a Covid-19 booster vaccine at a select number of vaccination centres from today.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that the heightened level of pandemic supports will remain in place until the end of January in line with most recent public health restrictions.

The Noone family from Donegal do not want to think about - let alone dream about - when they might get back to their own home.

Married women and those aged 29 are now eligible to enter the Rose of Tralee Festival, according to one of the organisers.

Actress Sally Ann Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died at the age of 91.

One hundred years ago this Christmas, the fate of the Anglo-Irish Treaty hung by a thread, the Dáil almost equally split.

Singapore suspended quarantine-free travel and Australia renewed its vaccination push today as surging cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant just days before Christmas forced authorities to impose new curbs and expedite booster shots.

The captain and first mate of a bulk carrier that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, causing the Indian Ocean archipelago's worst-ever environmental disaster, have been convicted of endangering safe navigation.

Irish consumer confidence dropped again in December, as concerns around Covid-19 and the cost of living intensified.

A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least one person, injured 25 and left dozens missing.

The Chief Medical Officer has advised people to limit their social contacts this week to those with whom they will spend Christmas Day.

A woman who got lost for three hours in Ikea's huge warehouse at Ballymun, Dublin after she had been struck on the head by a falling flat-pack, has been awarded €60,000 damages against the company.

Israel has announced that it will offer a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to people older than 60, amid concern over the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia was prepared to take military steps in response to "unfriendly" Western actions over the Ukraine conflict, in a sharp escalation of rhetoric.

After Bitcoin blazed the trail in cryptocurrency markets, Conor Wilson asks whether half a million Irish people have made a sound investment.

The jury in the sex crimes trial of Ghislaine Maxwell asked the judge today for transcripts of the testimony of three accusers of the British socialite and retired for the day without reaching a verdict.

Portugal has ordered nightclubs and bars to close and told people to work from home for at least two weeks starting this Saturday to control the spread of Covid-19 over the holiday period.

US President Joe Biden has announced the opening of more federal vaccination and testing sites to tackle a surge in Covid-19 cases sparked by the Omicron variant.

The current wait period for a vaccine following recovery from Covid-19 is to be shortened from six to three months for those who are fully vaccinated.

The mother of a young boxing champion who was murdered by a man who drove over him repeatedly has said she does not get a minute's peace, knowing how brutally her son's life was taken.