Two gardai in their 30s were wounded after they responded to a report that gunshots had been heard in Blanchardstown in northwest Dublin yesterday evening.

Trawler owners from the southwest, south and southeast of the country are holding a protest in Cork Harbour, demanding a reversal of quota cuts and a renegotiation of the EU Common Fisheries Policy in Ireland's favour.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that outside forces were waging a 'hybrid war' against Belarus, the Belta news agency reported, after the diversion of a Ryanair flight over Belarusian airspace sparked a global outcry.

The Health Service Executive remains very compromised following the cyber attack on its IT systems, but some progress is being made, according to Chief Operations Officer Anne O'Connor.

Thousands of Australian Rules football fans were told to self-isolate and get tested for Covid-19 after an infected spectator attended a match in Melbourne and the city raced to avoid another lockdown.

Around 14,000 women in Ireland each year have a miscarriage. Yet the grief of a miscarriage is not "openly acknowledged, socially supported or publicly mourned". Sinéad Hingston-Green wants to raise awareness of the experience of pregnancy loss and...

Two brothers, who were reported missing from their home in Northern Ireland earlier this month, have been found safe and well in Co Tipperary.

The coronavirus variant first detected in India has now been officially recorded in 53 territories, a World Health Organization report showed.

A new report from the Health Information and Quality Authority has revealed some of the main factors behind outbreaks of Covid-19 in nursing homes.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has said the Government's budgetary forecasts "lack credibility" and its spending forecasts are "not realistic".

A new report into the use of methadone has described the regime surrounding it as outdated and dehumanising with almost all of those surveyed saying they have never been offered alternative treatment.

Less than two weeks out from the 7 June reopening of outdoor hospitality businesses, pubs and restaurants are still waiting for guidelines from Fáilte Ireland.

New York prosecutors have convened a grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, US media has reported.

The number of residential units submitted for planning permission fell by nearly a third in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report by Deloitte.

A Cork hospital has secured injunctions from the High Court restraining any sharing, processing, selling or publishing of data believed stolen from its computer systems in a cyber attack.

"The scale, pace and strategic nature" of Israel's settlement action "is de facto annexation", Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, told the Dáil. He said that Ireland is the first EU state to say so, adding that he does not "do it lightly".

A new survey has found that four out of every five adults think the Government should introduce new measures to improve the supply of affordable housing here.

The Health Service Executive has said that it is getting very incomplete vaccination data following the cyber attack over a week ago.

Guidelines for the reopening of the hospitality sector are set to include a time limit on indoor hospitality and a maximum of six people allowed to sit at a table.

In 2016, Daithí Douglas was murdered in broad daylight. His killers were brought to justice in part because of diligent analysis of 1,500 hours of CCTV footage, explains Barry Cummins.