The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospital fell below 300 last night, according to the Health Service Executive.

Trade unions representing teachers are seeking clarification and urgent engagement with the Department of Education following the decision to change the National Vaccination Programme to an age-based system.

The Minister for Tourism is to announce a multi-million euro fund to help businesses serving food pay for more outdoor seating.

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall has said she wants to see the evidence to support the Government's claims that it will be quicker to roll out the vaccination programme by age.

Spain expects digital vaccine certificates to ease travel within the European Union will be ready in June at the latest, foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya has said.

Listed house prices have increased by 7.6% on average over the past year, while the number of homes available to buy are down 34%, according to the latest report from property website Daft.ie.

The RTÉ Investigates programme 'Inside Ireland's Covid Battle: Life and Death' has won the News and Current Affairs award at the inaugural RTS Ireland Television Awards 2021.

A man has been charged in connection with the investigation into the murder of a 52-year-old man in Dublin's south inner city on Monday.

Britney Spears has said she felt "embarrassed by the light they put me in" in the parts of a recent documentary about her life that she saw.

The United States has ordered the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, amid growing violence following the military coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

President Joe Biden's rescue dog Major has bitten an individual on White House grounds, a spokesman said, the second such incident involving the younger of Mr Biden's two German Shepherds.

G Gordon Liddy, a key figure in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party's offices in the Watergate building - the scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency - has died aged 90.

An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to new research.

The Government has announced that from 12 April people will be allowed to travel within their county or within 20km of residence if crossing county borders.

The Department of Health has been notified of 14 further coronavirus-related deaths and 368 new cases.

The Vhi has said that CEO John O'Dwyer has stepped aside, pending the outcome of an investigation into the facts surrounding his receipt of the Covid-19 vaccination from the Beacon Hospital.

"The summer is not lost" was the key phrase from Leo Varadkar's address to the nation last June. He was signalling the way out of the first ever lockdown at a time when the country tentatively dappled in the notion of hope that we soon learned mixe...

The first "vaccine bonus" since the roll-out of the programme began in January came this evening, after it was announced that two fully vaccinated people will be able to meet up indoors.

The teenager who took the viral video of George Floyd's death has told the trial of the white police officer charged with killing the 46-year-old black man that she regrets not being able to save his life.