Follow live developments as EU finance ministers are to meet in Brussels where the threat of tariffs on countries opposed to Donald Trump's plans for Greenland looms large.

Europe is preparing countermeasures against US President Donald Trump's "blackmail" after he threatened tariffs against several countries over their opposition to his designs on Greenland, Germany's vice chancellor has said.

At least 39 people were killed ⁠after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one in southern Spain last night, marking the worst railway accident in the country since 2013.

Serious concerns have been raised about Ireland's childcare system, with severe shortages of social workers and vulnerable children being left in unsuitable accommodation among the issues cited by the Child Law Project.

Seven people have had curative surgery as part of the first pilot Lung Health Check Programme of its kind, funded by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS), with another seven patients due to have surgery in the next month.

A report by the Simon Community has highlighted what it calls the "growing crisis" in the number of older adults becoming homeless.

Senegal coach Pape Bouna Thiaw was roundly jeered and then walked out of his scheduled ⁠post-match press conference as the drama of Sunday's contentious Africa Cup of Nations final continued well after the final whistle.

Minister for Housing James Browne will this week announce the first call for projects under the Government's new Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund.

Calls are growing louder for the European Union to deploy its powerful "anti-coercion instrument" in response to US President Donald Trump's threats to impose tariffs in the standoff over Greenland.

Ireland's 11 billionaires are wealthier than 66% of the country's population, according to a new study from Oxfam.

The Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Attorney General, as well as the ministers for Artificial Intelligence, Justice and Communications will meet to discuss existing laws relating to the generation and sharing of sexual abuse images.

US President Donald Trump's tariff decisions since he took office in January 2025 have shocked financial markets and sent a wave of uncertainty through the global economy.

A review of the International Protection system by NGOs, academics, migrant representatives and the think-tank Social Justice Ireland has stated that a fair, timely, and humane asylum process is essential.

China's birth rate plunged last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed, as its population shrank for a fourth straight year despite efforts to curb the decline.

Tributes have been paid to a woman in her 40s who had been sleeping rough in Dublin city centre, who died on Friday.

An Irish citizen has been detained by Russian authorities due to messages on his phone which expressed anti-Russian sentiment, according to his Ukrainian wife.

A man in his late teens has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Loughrea, Co Galway.

Saltmarshes are in decline all over the world, including in Ireland, which is seeing the size of its wetlands decreasing as well as a significant decline in the quality of the ecosystems.

In the attention economy, US President Donald Trump has cornered the market in this most valuable commodity, writes Washington Correspondent Sean Whelan.

The Government is adamant that the one-off payments are consigned to history. It is now an almost sacred policy point that is not up for negotiation, writes Mícheál Lehane.