A ship carrying a cargo of 33,000 tonnes of Ukrainian grain is due to dock at the port of Foynes in Co Limerick this afternoon.

Ireland's Ciara Mageean has secured a silver medal in the 1500m final at the European Championships in Munich.

A community programme of events to commemorate the death of Michael Collins 100 years ago will reach its height in Clonakilty, Co Cork this weekend.

While the student accommodation scramble is always pertinent at this time of year, many student leaders and university heads are already reporting the 2022 version to be far worse than anything they've encountered before.

There is a line that connects the past, the present and the future of Donald Trump's dominance of the Republican Party. And that line runs through the elections of 2020, 2022 and 2024.

Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels few can remember, exposing long-submerged treasures - and some unwanted hazards.

Kobe Bryant's widow has told a Los Angeles court she was "devastated" when she learned first responders had snapped graphic photographs of her dead husband and daughter in the wreckage of the helicopter crash that killed them.

At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel leading to a siege that authorities are still trying to end, an intelligence officer has told Reuters.

Swedish police have arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of killing one person and injuring another in a shooting at a shopping centre in the southern city of Malmo.

In just over a decade microtransactions have gone from a minor annoyance for gamers to a multi-billion dollar industry. Now they leaking out of our smartphones and into the real world, writes Adam Maguire.

A young boy has died after being hit by a vehicle near Ballinagare in Co Roscommon just after 9am this morning.

Ireland have won the Aga Khan Trophy for the first time since 2015 after beating France in a thrilling jump-off at the RDS.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following the death of a man in his 50s in a hit-and-run incident in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said today she had taken a drugs test in the wake of video footage published earlier this week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his French counterpart of the possibility of a 'large-scale catastrophe' at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

The nephew of Irish man Thomas O'Halloran has described his uncle's murder in London this week as "horrendous".

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has told a court he never saw Ryan Giggs lose his temper as he gave evidence defending his ex-player.

A member of an Islamic State cell which kidnapped and then beheaded American journalists and aid workers has been jailed for life by a US federal court.

The EU's drug regulator has today advised a new technique for monkeypox injections that will allow more people to be inoculated against the disease as supplies of the vaccine run short.

A 44-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Irishman Thomas O'Halloran in west London.