Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it is too early to say if the easing of restrictions set for 5 July will go ahead as planned, adding that "Covid tears up the best laid plans and it's a rapidly evolving situation with Delta."

At least three quarters of the Health Service Executive's IT servers have been decrypted and 70% of computer devices are back in use, following last month's cyber attack.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has announced that the Government will sell part of the State's 13.9% shareholding in Bank of Ireland over the next six months.

Trust in news media increased over the past year and there was an increase in the number of people watching television news during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the annual Reuters Digital News Report.

A flotilla of trawlers from all around the Irish coast is assembling at the entrance to Dublin Port in a protest by fishermen over quotas and the EU Common Fisheries policy.

The latest preliminary hearing of the Stardust fire inquests gets under way in Dublin this afternoon, after delays over families accessing legal aid were resolved.

Professional consultancy firm Accenture is to create 500 jobs in Ireland over the next three years.

The first trial under Hong Kong's new national security law has begun without a jury, a watershed moment for the financial hub's fast-changing legal landscape.

The Red Cross called for faster vaccine rollouts in vulnerable Pacific island nations as a record Covid-19 surge threatens to overload Fiji's health system.

Despite similar Covid-19 case rates, Denmark is much further along its road to reopening than Ireland is, explains Louise Byrne. What explains the difference in approach?

Liability has been admitted by the defendants in a case taken by a couple who claimed their healthy unborn baby boy was terminated after they were wrongly advised he had a fatal foetal abnormality.

The Department of Health has reported 294 new coronavirus cases, while the number of people with the virus being treated in intensive care is unchanged at 13.

NPHET has raised fresh concerns about the Delta variant in Ireland. But how widespread is the variant here? And what exactly is known about its spread?

The St Vincent's Healthcare Group has rejected calls to sell the site of the new National Maternity Hospital.

Primary legislation will be needed to ensure that pubs and restaurants can serve alcohol outdoors.

A teenage influencer has been arrested in Cairo, two days after being handed a ten-year prison sentence for "human trafficking".

A 30-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his father at his home in Firhouse in Dublin on Sunday.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, frustrated by the slow pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in his country, threatened people who refuse to get inoculated with jail or an injection of Ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug widely used to treat animals.

Twenty-four people were arrested for terrorism offences in Ireland last year, 18 of them for suspected Jihadist terrorist offences according to a new report by the European Policing agency Europol.

Jeffrey Donaldson has been declared the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party after becoming the sole candidate.