Former US president Donald Trump has been acquitted by the Senate of inciting the deadly 6 January attack on the US Capitol.

The Stardust disaster, in which 48 young people died and more than 200 were injured when a fire ripped through a nightclub in Dublin's northside in the early 1980s, is seared into the hearts and memories of a generation.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland into a snap lockdown for the first time in nearly six months, after three coronavirus cases emerged in the community.

Voting takes place in Catalonia today, in an election overshadowed by the pandemic and  which Madrid hopes will unseat the region's ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain.

Even before it began, Donald Trump's second impeachment was expected to end just like the first - acquittal by the US Senate.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake off Fukushima in eastern Japan injured more than 100 people, authorities have said, nearly a decade after the region suffered a devastating quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

The White House said it has accepted the resignation of a staffer who allegedly threatened to "destroy" a reporter who was asking about his personal life.

The white-water centre has joined a long list of controversial projects in Dublin which have provoked a backlash. Many have gone on to be a success while others remain controversial.

This week could be a big one for Ulster Bank's 2,800 employees in the Republic of Ireland, its 1.1m customers, the Irish banking market and the economy in general.

The Children's Ombudsman has said he is concerned about the regression all children have experienced because of the pandemic and that children will look back on this period and say that adults and the system failed them.

A series of weather warnings have been issued for tomorrow with more unsettled weather forecast across the country.

The ASTI has said it will re-enter discussions with the Department of Education on assessment for this year's Leaving Certificate.

The Department of Health has been notified of 66 further coronavirus related deaths, with 1,078 new confirmed cases.

Two men charged in connection with an alleged €8.2m drugs find in Straffan and Kill in Co Kildare have appeared before a special court sitting this evening.

The number of couples married in Ireland last year more than halved compared to previous years.

The head of the EU's disease control agency has warned that Covid-19 could last indefinitely even as global infections slowed by nearly half in the last month and vaccine rollouts gathered pace in parts of the world.

The stress and strain of life under lockdown is taking its toll on many of us, but one Sligo GAA club decided it was time to do something positive for its members and the reaction has been overwhelming.

Hopes for a weekend's skating were running high in the Netherlands yesterday as days of sub-zero temperatures froze lakes and ponds across the country, allowing the Dutch a welcome break from a two-month lockdown.

This week brought a reminder that pensions remain a live political issue after becoming a key battleground during last year's general election.

The efficacy of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in children is set to be tested in a new clinical trial.