Gardaí are continuing to question a man in his 20s in connection with the murder of a mother-of-two in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

The first appointments for those aged between 65 and 69 for the AstraZeneca vaccine will be scheduled from tomorrow.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin received hundreds of emotional letters and emails about the pandemic in the first two months of this year.

The Czech government said it is expelling 18 Russian diplomats identified by local intelligence as secret agents of the Russian SVR and GRU services that are suspected of involvement in a 2014 explosion.

The United States and China have said they are "committed to cooperating" on the pressing issue of climate change.

President Michael D Higgins celebrates his 80th birthday today.

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There have been 420 new cases of Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health, as well as four further deaths.

The High Court has ruled that a South African woman who challenged her detention in hotel quarantine is being detained lawfully.

Two motorcyclists have been killed in separate road crashes in Co Meath and Co Monaghan.

There is no change to the official Government policy on the vaccine priority list to focus on people aged 18 to 30, a spokesperson has told RTÉ News.

There is increasing confidence in Government that restrictions on inter-county travel could be lifted at some point in June.

A murder investigation is under way after a woman was fatally stabbed in Dublin.

Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019, more than three times more than a year earlier.

The Government will introduce the planned new Sláintecare public-only contracts for hospital consultants this year as part of a move towards universal healthcare, the Minister for Health has confirmed.

An education catch-up programme for young disadvantaged students is being looked at by Government, the Tánaiste said tonight.

Ireland fell to a comprehensive 56-15 defeat to France in their second Women's Six Nations game at Donnybrook.

The funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, is taking place.

An Italian court has ruled that far-right leader Matteo Salvini will face charges of kidnapping and abuse of office for blocking a migrant ship from disembarking in August 2019.

A system of mandatory hotel quarantine has been announced for Northern Ireland.