The HSE has warned GPs that its clinical laboratory capacity for checking samples from patients may be reduced to as little as 10%, due to last week's cyber attack.

Non-essential retail opens for the first time in over four months as a further easing of coronavirus restrictions continues.

The HSE said it has received advice on whether to open up the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines to people in their 40s and a decision is expected be made later this week.

The National Cyber Security Centre says it is working to identify the technical details of the malware used in the cyber attacks on the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive.

The RNLI has urged water enthusiasts to leave inflatables including airbeds and blow-up dinghies or doughnuts at home this summer, as it launches a water safety campaign.

Israel has hit Gaza with dozens of pre-dawn air strikes, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Hamas militants left more than 200 people dead, as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded.

The Government is concerned at the increasingly hostile tone of the UK government towards the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News understands.

Ryanair has reported a record annual after-tax loss of €815m today after Covid-19 restrictions forced it to scrap over 80% of flights, but the airline said there were signs the recovery had begun.

Proposals to clamp down on investment funds block-buying new housing developments will go to Cabinet tomorrow.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization has said.

British holidaymakers are checking in for some of the first flights to green list destinations after the UK government lifted its foreign travel ban.

More than three quarters of businesses are planning to return employees to their workplaces within the next three months if Government guidelines allow, a new survey by the employer's group Ibec has found.

Police in Northern Ireland have appealed for information about the whereabouts of two children.

There have been a total of 802 cases of Covid-19 reported in the last two days, the Department of Health has said.

The Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has said a cyber attack on the Department of Health "wasn't as extensive" as the similar ransomware attack on the Health Service Executive.

The Health Service Executive's Chief Clinical Officer has said it is too early to say if patient information has been accessed and taken away in Friday's ransomware attack on the HSE computer systems.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pleaded for an immediate end to deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence, warning a Security Council meeting that the fighting could plunge the region into an "uncontainable" crisis.

Hundreds of dentists have dropped out of a scheme to treat medical card patients, according to new figures.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the cyber attack on the Health Service Executive's IT system is very serious and should not be downplayed.