A woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of three children in Newcastle, Co Dublin, last Friday.

Following last night's televised leaders' debate in Galway, election campaigning is back in action. Keep up to date with events as they happen with our daily blog.

President Donald Trump has unveiled long-awaited details of a US plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning it may represent the last chance at statehood for the Palestinians.

EU citizens will be flown out of Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak, the European Commission has said.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck in the sea south of Cuba, triggering warnings of "hazardous" tsunami waves up to a metre high for Cuba, Jamaica, and west to Mexico and Central America.

One thing we know at the halfway mark of this campaign is that change is emerging as an overarching theme, writes Mary Regan.

French police have clashed with firefighters protesting in Paris against their working conditions and demanding more pay.

Sinn Féin has pledged to abolish the Universal Social Charge on income under €30,000, open 1,500 beds and hire thousands of nurses and midwives in health and build the largest social housing programme in the history of the State if in government.

US President Donald Trump's lawyers have wrapped up their arguments in his impeachment trial with a plea for the Senate to acquit him.

An appeal has been issued to trace a 34-year-old woman missing from the Dublin 4 area.

Hundreds of newly discovered photographs, including some taken at the Sobibor death camp, represent a "quantum leap" in research into Nazi crimes against humanity, historians at the Berlin museum Topography of Terror have said.

The Labour Party has launched its election manifesto, with a plan to freeze rents and build 80,000 social and affordable homes over the next five years.

A retired consultant surgeon has said more lives could be saved if the HSE worked with community groups to publicly identify the location of defibrillators.

Fine Gael General Election candidate Catherine Noone has apologised for calling Taoiseach Leo Varadkar "autistic".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has granted China's Huawei a limited role in the UK's 5G mobile network.

The work of an Irish technology company has been described as "mission critical" to next week's launch by the European Space Agency of its solar orbiter which is designed to examine the sun in the coming years.

A Dublin man has been accused of fraudulently claiming the dole while working as a civilian employee at Garda headquarters.

Monaghan Councillor Hugh McElvaney has been found to have breached the ethics laws by intentionally seeking payment from a company he believed was going to fund a planning application for a wind farm.

A 40-year-old man who had claimed to have suffered serious back pain after his bicycle was hit by a car has withdrawn his case.

A man accused of the murder of a garda who was shot dead in Co Louth seven years ago lied to the gardaí on several occasions and gave a false alibi, the Central Criminal Court has heard.