Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Mariupol is "inhuman" and called on the West to immediately provide heavy weapons.

Gardaí investigating the death of a 48-year-old man following an assault in Limerick city on Friday night have been checking the vicinity of the crime scene for closed circuit television images.

A man in his 20s is being treated for serious injuries after he was struck by a car in Co Meath in the early hours of this morning.

Covid deaths on weekends have been higher compared to weekdays during the pandemic, according to a new global study.

The British government's plans to send migrants to Rwanda cannot stand up to the judgment of God, the head of the Church of England has warned.

With people starting to travel abroad again in great numbers and Covid-19 still very much present, the question of travel insurance is once again top of mind for many.

North Korean state media has said Kim Jong-un supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve the country's tactical nuclear weapons.

Christians have been celebrating Holy Week in places of worship around the country for the first time in two years.

Pope Francis has condemned the cruelty of the war in Ukraine at an Easter vigil Mass he attended but at which he did not preside, presumably because of leg pain that has forced him to curtail activities.

Music teachers around the country are offering free lessons to Ukrainian children fleeing the war.

A small number of cases of a new variant of the Omicron strain of Covid-19 have been discovered in Northern Ireland, public health officials said.

Six people were found dead and 29 are missing and presumed dead after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today.

Many of the nearly five million people who have fled Ukraine will not have homes to return to, the United Nations has said as another 40,000 people fled the country in 24 hours.

President Michael D Higgins has expressed his "deepest support and condolences" to all those impacted by the deaths of two men in Sligo earlier this week.

The process of appointing Dr Tony Holohan to a post in Trinity College, Dublin via secondment was "incomplete, lacked transparency and was mishandled", according to Minister for State Robert Troy.

Russian missile strikes hit Ukraine's capital Kyiv and other cities today, as Moscow said its troops had cleared the urban area of Mariupol and only a small contingent of Ukrainian fighters remained inside a steelworks in the besieged southern port.

There are 735 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals across Ireland this morning. That is 74 fewer than yesterday.

Thousands of anti-far right protesters marched across France as opponents of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen seek to form a united front to prevent her from winning an election runoff against incumbent Emmanuel Macron on 24 April.

Gardaí have seized €1.75 million of cocaine and arrested a man following an operation in Clondalkin in Dublin.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country's longest crewed space mission to date.