A phased reopening of schools and childcare will be at the centre of the Government's revised Living with Covid-19 plan, which is due to be published after being considered by Cabinet this afternoon.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has moved to clarify remarks he made that suggested talks were ongoing between the Minister for Education and teaching unions on schools reopening.

A number of roads around Cork have been closed due to flooding as Met Éireann forecasts up to 80mm of rain and winds gusting to over 100km/h.

The US crossed the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, a year since announcing its first known death from the virus on 29 February, 2020 in the Seattle area.

US authorities arrested the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at an airport outside of Washington DC on narcotics smuggling charges, the Justice Department said.

A bereaved father in Navan, Co Meath, is advocating for men to "speak up" and talk about the grief they experience following the loss of a child.

An emotional US President Joe Biden called the milestone of more than 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19 "heartbreaking" and urged the country to unite against the pandemic.

A remote rural location in Kerry is being targeted by tech billionaire Elon Musk to locate antennae to the stars, and the pilot project - shrouded in secrecy - is likely to roll out in just weeks in a valley in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks near Killarne...

The number of patients with Covid-19 in hospital continues to reduce, according to latest figures from the Health Service Executive.

Data from two separate studies published in the UK, one in England and another in Scotland, have shown vaccines against Covid-19 are effective in cutting disease transmission and hospitalisations from the first dose.

The Association of Catholic Priests has said it would be a "premature and potentially detrimental move" to reopen churches for Easter.

Facebook is to lift a controversial ban on Australian news pages, after the government agreed to amend a new media law which Facebook strongly opposed.

The fundamental problem with Brexit is it challenges the sensitive chemistry of the Good Friday Agreement. The two - Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement - struggle to comfortably co-exist

Children are open to online exploitation, grooming, cyber-bulling and exposure to harmful internet content due to the amount of time they are spending online during the pandemic, according to the Children's Right's Alliance.

New research by the ESRI has found evidence that mortgage lending rules put in place by the Central Bank six years ago have helped keep house prices 9% lower than they might otherwise have been.

A total of 550 children per month received support from a dedicated domestic violence service from September to December last year.

A four-stage plan could see all of England's coronavirus restrictions finally lifted by 21 June, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced.

The legal provisions to give the Government powers to establish mandatory quarantine hotels have been circulated to TDs ahead of the legislation going before the Dáil this week.

The Cabinet sub-committee on Covd-19 has recommended that Level 5 restrictions should remain in place until early April.

US President Joe Biden will join in a moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony for Americans who have died due to Covid-19 as nations globally press on with vaccinations, including with Australia giving its first shots.