Public health officials and Government ministers will meet today to consider a cautious approach to easing restrictions from 5 April.

The massive container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week "has turned" but is not yet afloat, a spokesman for the vessel's owner said today.

A Government plan to reinvigorate rural Ireland aims to breathe new life into dying towns and villages by transforming disused derelict buildings and pubs into remote working hubs.

Northern Ireland's vaccine roll-out accelerated further today with the opening of a new mass vaccination centre at a converted sports complex in Belfast city centre.

A group of golfers greeted the easing of England's coronavirus restrictions by hitting the fairways just after midnight.

More than two million people in Brisbane have been ordered into a three-day lockdown after a cluster of coronavirus cases was detected in Australia's third-biggest city.

Ireland's economy will grow by 3.1% this year, employers' group Ibec is predicting, down from the 5.3% it said it was anticipating for 2021 just three months ago.

An international expert mission to Wuhan in China has concluded that it was very likely that Covid first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a lab incident.

George Floyd must receive justice, his family said ahead of opening arguments today in the trial of the white police officer accused of killing black man.

A massive blaze broke out Monday at one of Indonesia's biggest oil refineries after a huge explosion turned the sprawling complex into raging inferno.

Third-level computing courses continue to have the highest level of student drop out, with close to half of all entrants failing to complete their programme, according to the latest data on student completion rates.

The Department of Health has been notified of 13 further deaths associated with Covid-19 and 604 new cases.

Two of the three people who left mandatory hotel quarantine yesterday are back in the facility.

The British government has said it does not currently have a surplus of Covid-19 vaccines, but "will consider how these are allocated as they become available."

"We as a people have been living, for 12 months now, with an elevated level of stress," Professor Paul D'Alton, from the School of Psychology at UCD, said on a special RTÉ News programme discussing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our well-be...

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid has said he welcomes the decision by the Minister for Health to suspend the vaccination programme at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin.

Dozens of people were still unaccounted for following a deadly Islamist attack on Mozambique's northern town of Palma, while thousands of survivors were being evacuated to the provincial capital Pemba, various sources said.

Residents in a small town in northwestern Switzerland voted in a referendum today on whether to remain part of a German-speaking canton or join a French-speaking one.

Defence chiefs from a dozen countries have jointly condemned the killing of at least 90 people - including several children - after security forces in Myanmar opened fire on anti-coup protesters.