Family members and neighbours of a couple and their son who died in a suspected double murder-suicide in Co Kerry last year have called for greater psychological support and counselling for bereaved communities in such cases.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee says she expects a report to be submitted to her in the coming weeks on a review of familicide and domestic homicide cases.

The Green Party has removed the party whip and suspended TDs Patrick Costello and Neasa Hourigan from its parliamentary party for six months.

Moscow said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Russian-held Mariupol as it shored up a key gain in the south, while the United States became the latest Western country to reopen its embassy in Kyiv.

A further four men arrested in connection with alleged match-fixing in the League of Ireland, have been released from garda custody.

Health authorities in North America and Europe have detected dozens of suspected or confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May, sparking concern the disease endemic in parts of Africa is spreading.

People receiving Social Welfare payments will be able to earn rent of up to €14,000 a year without their means-tested allowances being impacted, under changes set to be announced today.

The backing of a Sinn Féin motion on the National Maternity Hospital by two Green TDs and their subsequent suspension from the party will not have "long-term implications" on Government, a Fine Gael TD has said.

North Korea is ready to conduct a nuclear test at any moment, a South Korean politician has said, with the United States warning it could happen while President Joe Biden is in Seoul this week.

The HSE has published a plan to improve the care and treatment for adolescents and young adults with cancer which includes three new specialist units at St James's Hospital in Dublin, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital.

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said today.

The cost of living crisis has impacted lower-income households the most, according to TASC, which has examined inequality and the cost of living since Covid-19.

Parents in the US have grown increasingly desperate for baby formula amid a perfect storm of supply chain issues and a massive recall, but experts are warning them not to try and make their own formula substitutes.

A writer who penned a piece titled "How To Murder Your Husband" is on trial in the United States for killing her husband.

Delegates are gathering in Killarney for the national conference of Fórsa, the country's largest public sector union.

The first Russian soldier on trial in Ukraine for war crimes during Moscow's invasion has pleaded guilty, facing possible life imprisonment in Kyiv.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar warned colleagues tonight that Brexit is not a passing storm. It will go on forever and will never just be "done", he told a meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.

Two companies that were part of the former Quinn group have launched High Court proceedings against the former billionaire businessman and the group's founder Seán Quinn.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told a right-wing American think tank in August 2019 that the only people in Ireland concerned with a no-deal Brexit were "farmers with a few turnips in the back of their truck", a former British diplomat has claim...

The mother of two 11-year-old twins with autism who have been denied appropriate schooling has said that an apology from Taoiseach Micheál Martin is "too little, too late".