Taoiseach Micheál Martin has been in contact with Independent TDs this weekend to seek their support in advance of a confidence vote in the Dáil this coming week.

A man in his 30s has died after falling from a bonfire in Co Antrim.

The Government has the numbers to defeat Sinn Féin's upcoming no-confidence motion, writes Paul Cunningham.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Irish Amateur Boxing association takes place in Roscommon today.

At least six people have been killed and more than 30 are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine's Donetsk region, collapsing the building, the region's governor said.

A plan to apply stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction targets on different parts of the economy will not go to Cabinet next week, as had been planned.

Childcare is often referred to as a second mortgage for families; Adam Maguire takes a look at how the cost stacks up across the country and how it compares to the rest of Europe.

National Day of Commemoration ceremonies will be held this morning at Collins Barracks in Dublin, as well as at several other locations across the country.

You can never have too much of a good thing, or so the saying goes - except it seems if that good thing is corporation tax, writes Business Editor Will Goodbody.

Calm has returned to the streets of Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo this morning and protesters are jubilant as the President agreed to resign after his house was stormed.

Nine Tories have so far put themselves forward to replace Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister, just days after a collapse in party support forced his resignation.

A growing number of younger people are choosing digital-only banks such as Revolut and N26 over the traditional banks.

Japanese voters are casting their ballots this morning in an upper house election, just two days after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while on the campaign trail.

Thousands of protesters have stormed the Sri Lankan president's official residence and set the prime minister's private residence on fire in Colombo as anger intensified over the country's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Former British health secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid have both pledged to slash corporation tax as they announced separate bids for the Tory leadership.

Ukrainian defenders battled to contain Russian forces along several fronts, officials said, as the US urged China to align itself with the West in opposing the invasion following an ill-tempered G20 meeting.

It is "definitely time for sunscreen" this weekend, Met Éireann has said, with temperatures of between 23C and 24C forecast.

The Department of Housing has confirmed that the deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála, Paul Hyde, has resigned.

Thousands of people have attended a rally in Navan protesting against the proposed closure of the emergency room at Our Lady's hospital.

The next British prime minister must face up to the reality that the Northern Ireland Protocol is here to stay, Michelle O'Neill has said.