The Head of Communications for airport operator daa has said "well over 1,000 passengers" missed their flights at Dublin Airport due to lengthy queues yesterday.

The Chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport has said he is embarrassed for Ireland following the chaos at Dublin airport yesterday.

ESB is to recruit 1,000 people over the next three years to support the delivery of its Driven to Make a Difference: Net Zero by 2040 strategy.

European Union leaders will meet to reiterate support for Ukraine, while Russian forces have intensified attacks to capture Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the southeastern Donbas region that Russia has prioritised taking full control over.

President Joe Biden yesterday tried to comfort families in the south Texas town of Uvalde after the nation's deadliest school shooting in a decade.

More than 1,000 delegates from over 60 countries have begun arriving in Ireland for the 11th international World Potato Congress.

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.

Russian troops are moving into the city of Sivierodonetsk from the outskirts, Luhansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai has said.

250 new highly skilled jobs are to be created in Athlone by Swedish telecoms infrastructure firm Ericsson.

Rescue workers in Nepal have recovered 14 bodies as they searched a remote Himalayan mountainside scattered with the wreckage of a small plane that crashed with 22 aboard.

The Stormont Assembly is due to meet to discuss the election of a First and Deputy First Minister, but the DUP has already made it clear it will block the move.

The World Health Organization has said that monkeypox constitutes a "moderate risk" to overall public health at global level, after cases were reported in countries where the disease is not typically found.

Almost one third of workers would change jobs - even if it means a pay cut - if their remote working preferences are not facilitated, according to the third annual National Remote Working Survey.

Germany's government and conservative opposition have agreed a deal that will release €100 billion to modernise the army in the face of Russian threat.

Students will be able to work and earn more this summer and still qualify for third-level grants, under plans being considered by Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris.

A couple based in Co Kerry who missed their flight from Dublin Airport to Italy this morning have described the situation faced by passengers there today as a "terrible bad advertisement for Ireland".

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has said the Government will bring forward specific Budget measures to address the rising cost of living.

Russian shelling has destroyed all of the critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the largest city Kyiv still controls in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has saluted the dedication and bravery of Irish peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, saying the nation values and respects their work.

Violent clashes affecting Liverpool fans in Paris have been dubbed the "worst" seen at a European football match, a UK police force has said.