Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said he thinks that people can look forward to an earlier lifting of restrictions and that this will possibly happen next week.

The Taoiseach has said the €1,000 bonus payment scheme that acknowledges public healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic will be rolled out as soon as possible.

A man has been charged at Tullamore District Court with the murder of Ashling Murphy in Co Offaly.

Around 75% of homes built by the Land Development Agency will likely be cost rental, according to chairperson designate Cormac O'Rourke.

The first aircraft carrying humanitarian supplies has arrived in Tonga, five days after the South Pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated communities and spoiled most of its drinking water.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to keep alive Team Ireland's dreams of competing at the Powerchair Football World Cup in Australia later this year.

The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by former president Donald Trump to block the release to a congressional committee of documents related to the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.

US President Joe Biden sought to reset his presidency in a marathon first year press conference yesterday, vowing to reconnect with voters and touting successes, while delivering blunt assessments of the "disaster" facing Russia if it attacks Ukraine...

The head of RTÉ has told an Oireachtas Committee that the national broadcaster "cannot continue to deliver its remit for the people of Ireland" unless its funding is addressed.

The Charities Regulator will launch a classification standard this morning aimed at further developing the Register of Charities as a "single authoritative source of data" on the sector.

A report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church is due to be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those expected to be mentioned.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have formally asked for a new trial after they raised concern about a juror's possible failure to disclose before the trial that he was sexually abused as a child.

Public healthcare workers who worked on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic are to receive a once off €1,000 tax free payment under a plan passed by Cabinet this morning.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fight any no confidence vote launched against him by his own MPs and expects to fight the next General Election, No 10 has said, after he again faced calls to resign.

The Ombudsman for Children has said he is fully supportive of the demand by Leaving Certificate students for a hybrid approach to assessment this year, to include an accredited grades option.

Ireland head coach Andy Farrell has included Connacht's Mack Hansen and Ulster's Mike Lowry in his 37-man squad for the opening rounds of the Six Nations.

The Government will meet on Friday to decide on easing Covid-19 restrictions and the Taoiseach said it will give clarity to the public at that point.

Two New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical water supplies for the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami.

The Vietnamese head of a human trafficking gang was sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Belgian court today for the manslaughter of 39 people who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019.