Ireland's former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan may seek compensation from the European Commission, following his resignation in August 2020 over the Oireachtas golf society controversy, according to a French newspaper.

Around 29,000 homes and businesses remain without power, while a Status Yellow wind warning has been issued for two counties.

Russia has said it was too early to discuss organising a summit between the Russian and US presidents, after France announced the possibility of a meeting to calm tensions over Ukraine.

A rally driver in his 20s has died following a crash at the Killarney Forestry Rally in Co Kerry, yesterday.

The three coalition leaders will consider the Government's approach to the lifting of mandatory mask wearing, ahead of a Cabinet decision tomorrow.

A scheme allowing members of the Irish-Afghan Community to apply for family members to join them here has been criticised as being "stressful", "cruel" and a "missed opportunity."

The death has been announced of the British music entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards at the age of 31.

Credit Suisse has said it "strongly rejects" allegations of wrongdoing after dozens of media published results of coordinated, Panama Papers-style investigations into a leak of data on thousands of accounts held there in previous decades.

Three Irish families have returned from Ukraine with their babies who were born via surrogacy there and a fourth family is also en route home.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Australia will welcome international tourists tomorrow after nearly two years of sealing its borders, relying on high Covid-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections decline.

The number of people with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units is at its lowest level since 4 September 2021.

Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury cars which is adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands, a port official said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied throwing "caution to the wind" as he prepares to end all pandemic-related legal restrictions in England, amid a political backlash and scientific unease.

A woman in her 30s and a 19-year-old man have died in two separate road crashes.

Questions remain following the news this week that a resident at a HSE centre for people with disabilities in the northwest accessed material of child sexual exploitation online.

The Greek fire brigade has recovered the body of a man who was listed as missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy.

A member of the Climate Change Advisory Council has said he expects that Ireland's carbon emissions will continue to rise this year.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe will hold an extraordinary meeting of permanent representatives on Monday to find ways to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, the Polish chairmanship of the European security body has ...

The last big rigs were being towed out of Canada's capital today, where the streets were quiet for the first time in three weeks after a massive police operation ended a drawn-out siege over Covid-19 health rules.