Leaders of the Group of Seven countries are gathering in Cornwall, England, for their first face-to-face meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began.

A full summit of the British-Irish Council is taking place in Co Fermanagh and is being hosted by Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Minsters Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said that Ireland will be vigourously making the case for tax competition and for maintaining a corporate tax rate of 12.5%.

Sunday is to be the hottest day of the year, according to Met Éireann, with temperatures reaching up to 26 degrees in places.

A Co Cavan family, whose dog retrieved a swan's egg from a local lake a year ago, have released the fully-grown bird back to the wild.

Farmers will gather in 30 towns across the country to protest over European Union CAP reform proposals and over the impact on the sector of the Government's climate action plan.

Solar panel "wings" spread out and two camera "eyes" pointing ahead, China's Mars rover Zhurong struck a birdlike pose as it explored the red planet in photos released by the country's space agency.

The pandemic has led to a significant and irreversible deterioration in the condition of many people living with dementia, according to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Australia's Victoria has reported no locally acquired cases of Covid-19 for the first time in nearly three weeks as state capital Melbourne came out of a snap two-week lockdown.

G7 leaders - who are meeting in England - are pledging to donate hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries.

The number of patients with Covid-19 in hospitals is down to 59, according to the Health Service Executive, wich is the lowest number in nine months.

A garda has appeared in court charged with coercive control, criminal damage, sexual assault, assault causing harm and harassment of his former partner over a three-year period.

Political leaders in Northern Ireland have expressed concern about the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19, first reported in India.

The wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has pleaded guilty to helping her husband smuggle narcotics into the US.

The first in a series of live pilot concerts took place at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin on Thursday evening.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will welcome leaders from around the world to the G7 summit in Cornwall tomorrow.

The environment and behaviour at Thursday's event were strictly controlled. So how will it inform our efforts to control the spread of Covid-19 as society reopens?

Galway Circuit Criminal Court has heard that a garda found a man viewing sexual abuse images of children while sitting in his van in a hotel car park.

The High Court has approved a settlement of €1.25m to the husband of a woman who died due to a cardiac arrest after being admitted to hospital when she was almost 38 weeks' pregnant.