Half the adult population will have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose by the end of this week, the Minister for Health has told the Dáil.

The Covid-19 vaccination programme in Northern Ireland has opened for everyone aged 18 and over.

The Cabinet Covid-19 sub-committee will meet later to look at the further easing of restrictions in June and July.

The executive chairman of Jones Engineering group, Eric Kinsella and his wife Barbara, have donated €30m to Trinity College Dublin.

More than five million people in Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne have been ordered into a snap week-long lockdown, as officials blamed a slow vaccine roll-out and hotel quarantine failures for another virus outbreak.

People who attended the 2019 Pendulum Summit in the Convention Centre Dublin will be familiar with Boris Johnson's yarn about the movie "Jaws".

The death toll from a shooting at a rail yard in San Jose, California has risen to nine after a victim who was taken to hospital in critical condition died, NBC Bay Area reported, citing authorities.

Tens of thousands of people have fled the eastern DR Congo city of Goma towards neighbouring Rwanda after authorities warned of possible new eruptions from the Nyiragongo volcano, including underneath the nearby Lake Kivu.

Eric Carle, author and illustrator of the beloved children's classic 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', has died aged 91, according to a statement from his official Instagram account.

Israel's Foreign Ministry has claimed that a motion passed by the Dáil constitutes a victory for extremist Palestinian factions.

Ongoing research into an increasingly common spider species has found it can deliver bites that may require hospital treatment.

Permanent TSB is to create 180 jobs to support its growth in a number of key areas, while it also said that new hubs will be set up in the commuter towns of Greystones, Maynooth, Dundalk and Douglas.

Members of the Dáil's Business Committee members will push for a partial return to Leinster House when they meet later today.

The Government will begin to look at phasing out financial pandemic supports in the final three months of the year, the Tánaiste has told colleagues.

Portmarnock Golf Club in Dublin is to end its men-only membership policy after 127 years.

A Dublin city centre bar that held a "boozy brunch" event last year in which social distancing regulations were breached has lost its licences to operate.

A former senior aide to the British Prime Minister has said tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily because of the UK government's failings over coronavirus.

A maximum of six people aged 13 years and over will be allowed per table when restaurants, pubs and cafés open next month.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has told the Dáil that emergency pandemic measures, including additional powers for the gardaí, will only need to be extended "for a very short time".