Convicted murderer Graham Dwyer has won a significant legal battle in his attempt to have his conviction for murder overturned.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the UN Security Council, where he is expected to demand tough new sanctions on Moscow over killings in the town of Bucha he has called "war crimes" and "genocide".

Today marks the end of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment and remaining recipients will now transition to jobseekers' payments, if they are deemed eligible.

The European Commission is expected to announce a fifth set of sanctions against Russia later today which could, for the first time, target some Russian fossil fuel exports.

We are on a fast track to climate disaster with just three years left to start turning it around, writes Environment Correspondent George Lee.

Individuals along with economy-wide efficiencies can make a major difference in the drive to avert the worst of global warming, UN climate experts say.

Minister for Arts and Culture Catherine Martin is to ask the Cabinet to back a multi-million euro pilot programme in which artists are paid a basic income.

Outgoing Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan is availing of an "open-ended secondment" from the Department of Health in order to take up a role at Trinity College Dublin.

Joe Biden's big selling point when he became president - at least outside the United States - was his expertise in foreign policy, but it was a foreign policy mistake that saw his approval ratings take a sharp dip.

The Minister for Health will seek Cabinet approval this morning for his plan to introduce Regional Health Areas - a key element of the Sláintecare reform programme.

Follow the latest updates on the war in Ukraine as the EU is set to impose more sanctions on Russia over its invasion.

Chinese authorities have extended the lockdown of Shanghai to cover all of the financial centre's 26 million people, after city-wide testing saw new Covid-19 cases surge to more than 13,000 amid growing public anger over quarantine rules.

Several people were killed when a pick-up truck crashed into a train in southern Hungary, derailing carriages early this morning, police said.

A new report has found that family carers face significant hardship and a risk of poverty.

A man filmed a teenager being sexually assaulted after the man carrying out the assault had rendered the victim unconscious with a pain relief drug he had earlier stolen, a court has heard.

Wealthy countries like Ireland must cut fossil fuel subsidies, ramp up the transmission to renewable energy and stop practices that are killing biodiversity and harming nature, An Taisce has warned in the wake of today's new Intergovernmental Panel o...

Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them almost in half, the UN said in a landmark report on stopping global warming and ensuring a "liveable future".

UN scientists have warned that without immediate and deep cuts to greenhouse gases, it will be impossible to limit temperature rises to 1.5C - beyond which the most catastrophic impacts of climate change will be felt.

Shocking scenes have not been rare since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the world will recognise the killing of people in the town of Bucha, where dozens of corpses, some with their hands bound, were discovered after Russian forces withdrew late last week, as "genocide".