Four ships carrying Ukrainian food stuffs have sailed from Black Sea ports as part of a deal to unblock the country's sea exports, Ukrainian and Turkish officials said.

The death toll from violence in Gaza has risen to 29, including six children, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said today.

Two people have been arrested after approximately €300,000 of suspected cannabis was seized during Garda searches in counties Tipperary and Carlow yesterday.

A motorcyclist has died following a collision in north Dublin last night while the driver of a car was killed in a crash in Skibbereen, Co Cork. Both men were aged in their 20s.

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Westlife performed their greatest hits to a packed Wembley Stadium on Saturday - the first time in the chart-topping group's history that they have played at the famous London venue.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the operator of the facility reported major damage at the site.

Detectives in Ballymoney, Co Antrim have charged an 18-year-old man with sexual activity by an adult with a child between 13 and 16-years-old.

The Tipperary GAA community is in mourning following the death of senior hurler Dillon Quirke after he collapsed whilst playing for his club Clonoulty/Rossmore in a county championship match at Semple Stadium on Friday evening.

A leading private student accommodation operator in Galway has told those who booked single rooms that they face losing a place, if they do not switch to twin rooms this academic year.

Police in Northern Ireland have launched a murder investigation following the disappearance of a man from Cookstown, Co Tyrone late last year.

Around 50 people attended the annual commemoration in Merrion Square Park in Dublin this afternoon for the victims of the US atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on this day in 1945.

A major operation to rescue 10 trapped Mexican coal miners is approaching a crucial moment, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, raising the hopes of desperate relatives.

The Unite trade union has confirmed it plans to ballot its public sector members on possible industrial action in the wake of rising inflation.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he is "deeply concerned" about the escalation of violence in and around Gaza in the past 24 hours.

The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since Russia's invasion will no longer arrive in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Sunday as planned, Ukraine's embassy in Beirut has said.

The head of Amnesty International's Ukrainian office is leaving the human rights group after it accused Ukraine's armed forces of endangering civilians by basing troops in residential areas.

With many parts of the country expecting another dry, sunny spell, environmental organisations are reminding people to protect and care for Ireland's waterways, coastline and marine life.

Twelve people were killed and 31 injured, 18 of them seriously, when a Polish bus filled with religious pilgrims slipped off a road and crashed near Varazdin in northwestern Croatia, authorities have said.

Archie Battersbee has died after his life support was withdrawn this morning, his family have said.