A senior official at Stormont's Department of Agriculture is seeking legal advice this morning after its minister Edwin Poots ordered officials to end all checks on goods coming into Northern Ireland.

Senior members if the DUP are due to meet this afternoon to decide whether Paul Givan will resign as First Minister of the Stormont Assembly.

Vicky Phelan has said she is honoured to receive the Freedom of Limerick.

New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its border that has been largely closed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but travel bodies have said self-isolation rules need to be removed to revive the struggling tourism sector.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar have both signalled that the Government is going to take further actions to counter the rising cost of living.

A men's walking group in Cork is taking a fresh approach to mental health and wellness - with a little help from their four legged friends.

The number of ceasefire violations in the conflict in eastern Ukraine has decreased and there have been no combat losses for the past three weeks, according to Ukraine's Defence Minister.

The number of dog owners requesting to surrender their pets since Christmas has risen by 73% on the same period last year, Dogs Trust Ireland has said.

Fine Gael and the Green Party look set to clash over planning reform, after Tánaiste Leo Varadkar gave strong backing to proposals being developed by Fine Gael Minister of State Peter Burke.

Sweden will lift pandemic restrictions next week despite record levels of infections as it banks on booster shots and high rates of past Covid-19 infections to keep hospitalisation rates manageable.

Another name has been added to the list of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, those killed and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.

The Government's solution to Ireland's housing issues is to increase supply. But some believe that not all new homes will lead to cheaper prices more generally, explains Louise Byrne.

The Pentagon has said that US special forces carried out a counter-terrorism mission in northwest Syria, a raid which Syrian sources said was believed to have targeted a leading jihadist.

Some of the 1,000 US diplomats hit by a mysterious illness known as Havana Syndrome could have been targeted by electromagnetic energy pulses, according to a report to US intelligence leaders.

New York prosecutors have said they had charged four men in relation to the drug overdose death of The Wire actor Michael K. Williams.

Russia has written a stern letter to the Irish Government demanding a "prompt response" to a series of claims that the Government may have changed its position on post-Cold War European security arrangements.

The Russian Ambassador has told an Oireachtas committee that there is an "almost daily drumbeat of so-called imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine", when there are no facts on the ground to support that invasion "fantasy".

The UK Government has said it will not intervene in an order to stop Brexit agri-food checks at Northern Ireland ports.

The US will send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania to reinforce Eastern European NATO allies in the face of what Washington describes as a Russian threat to invade Ukraine, US officials said.

There are no finalised plans regarding the "wind-down" of the National Public Health Emergency Team, but it is being considered, the Oireachtas Health Committee has heard.