The Minister for Health and the Chief Medical Officer are to meet Limerick health officials and politicians today over rising Covid-19 figures in the county.

The Chair of the Oireachtas Children's Committee has confirmed that the committee will be inviting the three commissioners from the now-disbanded Mother and Baby Homes Commission to address the committee.

The EU is growing increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of a breakthrough on how the Northern Ireland Protocol is implemented, with senior officials and diplomats warning that the UK appears determined to undermine it.

Arctic sea ice, which is frozen seawater floating on the ocean surface, may be thinning in coastal regions up to twice as fast as previously thought, scientists believe.

European Union ambassadors have adopted a plan to ban Belarus airlines from flying over EU territory or landing in EU airports, and prohibiting EU airlines from flying over Belarus, diplomats have said.

The first in-person meeting of the G7 countries since the start of the pandemic takes place in London today.

A new exhibition at Dublin Castle shines a light on the wives of the men who governed Ireland before independence.

Hong Kong police have arrested an organiser of annual vigils for the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

An Australian court has ordered a dozen media firms to pay a total of A$1.1m (€695,000) in fines for breaching a suppression order on reporting the conviction, since overturned, of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sexual assault.

There is no evidence that unexplained aerial phenomena spotted in recent years by US military personnel are aliens, an upcoming government report has found, according to a New York Times report, but officials still can't explain the mysterious airc...

Australia's Victoria state authorities say they have detected the highly infectious Delta Covid-19 virus variant , the variant first seen in India, for the first time in the latest outbreak in Melbourne.

Forecourt operator and retailer Circle K is to start selling Covid-19 antigen tests in all stores, excluding Circle K Express, from this weekend.

Health Service Executive Chief Paul Reid has said the ongoing impact of the cyber attack is "beyond comprehension" and it will take a few more weeks yet to fully restore the IT systems.

As housing lists balloon, local authorities are increasingly signing long-term leases for social housing. But whether they are getting value for money is an open question, explains Louise Byrne.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Edwin Poots has described his first meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin as "positive, frank and useful".

Australia is one of the slowest countries in the developed world to immunise its population against Covid-19 due to supply shortages, logistical problems and recent rising vaccine hesitancy.

The UK has removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list, according to Transport Minister Grant Shapps.

Government and Opposition parties have called for representatives of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to "clarify" its treatment of the personal accounts of survivors in its final report by coming before an Oireachtas committee.

Tuam historian Catherine Corless has described revelations about evidence given to the confidential committee as an "eye opener", which confirmed survivors' feelings were not considered by the Commission of Investigation.

CEO of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has said the damage caused by the cyber attack and the devastating impact that it has had on the health service "cannot be overstated".