Catherine Connolly will be officially declared the country's tenth president at an inauguration ceremony in Dublin Castle later today.

Taiwan issued a land warning and evacuated more than 3,000 people ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong which is expected to bring large amounts of rain to the island's mountainous east coast.

The inauguration of Catherine Connolly as President marks the ultimate stage in a long and winding political journey.

The US Senate has approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions and left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid.

Follow live updates as Catherine Connolly is officially sworn in as the tenth President of Ireland.

On a windswept Cork farm, hi-tech cow collars track animal health and solar panels glint on the milking parlour's roof, as Ireland tries to reduce its agricultural carbon footprint.

When President Michael D Higgins was beginning his first term of office in 2011, RTÉ programme 'The School Around the Corner' showed pupils at St Ultan's School in Ballyfermot in Dublin a photograph of him to see if they knew who he was.

India's defence minister has vowed that those responsible for a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital that killed at least eight people will face justice.

The Head of Addiction Services at St John of God Hospital has warned that shopping, video gaming and gambling are part of a surge in behavioural addiction in Ireland, and that the problem is "all predicated on the smartphone".

Thailand's government has confirmed it will halt the implementation of an enhanced ceasefire agreement with Cambodia, signed last month in the presence of US President Donald Trump.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda commander who until recently was sanctioned by Washington as a foreign terrorist, has said his association with the militant group was a matter of the past and was not discussed in his meeting with ...

Author David Szalay has become the first Hungarian-British author to win the Booker Prize.

A third outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in less than a week.

Aer Lingus pilots, who are members of the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association (IALPA), have passed a motion of no confidence in the airline's Chief Executive Lynne Embleton and its Chief Operations Officer Adrian Dunne.

The United Nations climate conference has opened in the Brazilian Amazon with pleas for the world to keep up the fight against global warming, even as the United States turns its back.

US Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action over the way a documentary aired edited clips of his speech just before the 2021 US Capitol assault.

A prolific sex offender arrested by police was able to carry on offending while on bail, leading to the death of a 12-year-old American girl, according to a report from Northern Ireland's Office of the Police Ombudsman.

Apart from giving a positive impression of Ireland at home and abroad, what exactly does the role of the President involve, and what can the incumbent do when they eventually enter the Áras?

A Status Yellow rain warning is in place for many parts of the country with Met Éireann warning of the potential for localised flooding.

New figures obtained by RTÉ News show that up to August this year, children in Dublin were waiting up to 13 years to be seen by a primary care psychologist.