In the most substantial easing of restrictions so far this year a range of social and economic activity will resume today.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that today is "a day of freedom" as society partially reopens and people can travel freely across the country.

Museums, galleries, and libraries around the country can open their doors to the public from today as further easing of coronavirus restrictions takes place.

The number of social housing units in Ireland needs to double by 2030, according to think-tank Social Justice Ireland.

Dozens of people have been wounded when clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

A bomb has blown up a bus in Afghanistan killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, officials said today, the latest in a series of deadly blasts that has come as foreign forces withdraw.

Rory McIlroy has claimed a first PGA Tour win since November 2019 by winning the Wells Fargo Championship for the third time at Quail Hollow.

India, suffering from one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the world, reported nearly 370,000 fresh infections and more than 3,700 new deaths today.

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Two women are set to appear before Cork District Court in connection with an incident in Cork yesterday after a shot was discharged and nine people were subsequently arrested.

The Taoiseach has confirmed that Ireland will join the EU's digital green certificate system, opening up the prospect of foreign travel by the end of the summer.

Seven people - including the suspect - have died in a shooting at Colorado Springs in the United States.

Exhilarated Spaniards danced in streets, chanted "freedom" and partied on beaches overnight as a Covid-19 curfew ended across most of the nation.

A further two Covid-related deaths and 514 new cases of the disease have been notified to the Department of Health.

The British Prime Minister has invited Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon for crisis talks after she warned he would be standing in the way of democracy if he denies Scotland a second independence referendum.

A shooting in New York's bustling Times Square injured a four-year-old girl and two women, in the latest incident of gun violence in the city, police said today.

After a week of mixed emotions for first time buyers, we've been looking at what incentives are available and what criteria they need to meet in order to avail of them.

Gardaí in Cork have arrested eight people, including a teenage boy, after at least one shot was fired in an estate at Mahon in the city earlier this evening.

European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Sunday the European Commission did not renew its order for AstraZeneca vaccines against Covid-19 for after June.

The Government has said it will take action "very soon" to stop investors from bulk-buying property.