Asylum seekers would be obliged to contribute between 10% and 40% of their weekly income towards their State accommodation costs, under a plan to be considered by the Cabinet tomorrow.

Ukraine and Russia counted casualties this morning after trading deadly overnight strikes, as officials scrambled to revise a framework to end the nearly four-year conflict ahead of a US-imposed deadline.

The Cabinet could approve a scoping inquiry as soon as tomorrow into Michael Shine who worked as a consultant at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, and was later found guilty of sexual assaults on nine boys.

A legacy body is seeking witnesses to the death of a milkman and his son during rioting linked to the 1981 hunger strikes.

Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.