Draft guidelines for the reopening of bars and restaurants indoors on Monday, 26 July, have been published.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,386 new cases of Covid-19. There are 106 people in hospital who have tested positive for the disease, a rise of 11 since yesterday.

This week's scorching temperatures have dipped and a milder weekend is in store.

A man in his 60s has been pronounced dead after being recovered from the sea off Dollymount strand in north Dublin around 1.30pm today.

Ever after a year-long delay, a muted build-up, no fans in the audience and a pandemic as a back-drop, the Olympics remain the most important event in the marketing industry's calendar, writes Adam Maguire.

Like a thrill-ride, Johnsonian Britain is barreling through this part of the 21st century. Just when you think you have survived the scariest bit, another scare comes along.

A High Court judge in Belfast has found there was a "real prospect" the Real IRA attack in Omagh in 1998 could have been prevented.

No more survivors are likely to be found among the ruins left by floods in western Germany over the last week, rescue services admitted on Wednesday.

Rescuers in India are combing through mud and debris in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains climbed to 76, with nearly 90,000 others evacuated.

Family members of the victims of the Omagh bombing have called for a public inquiry into the events surrounding the atrocity, after a court finding today that there was a "real prospect" the Real IRA attack in 1998 could've been prevented.

Irish boxers Kellie Harrington and Brendan Irvine led their Olympic teammates into the new national stadium of Japan for the opening ceremony of the 32nd Olympic Games.

Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange thunderstorm and rain warning for Galway, Clare and north Tipperary.

National housing and homeless charity, the Peter McVerry Trust, will deliver 1,200 new social housing units before the end of 2025 under its new five-year strategic plan.

Europe's medicines regulator has recommended approving the use of Moderna's Covid vaccine in 12- to 17-year-olds, paving the way for it to become the second shot approved for adolescent use in the European Union.

The United Nations' food agency has warned that climate change has pushed Madagascar to the brink of famine.

A 16-year-old boy who was involved in a row outside a house in Cork during which a student was stabbed to death last year has been sentenced to two years' detention with a further two years' supervision.

The funeral has taken place of the former leader and founder of the Progressive Democrats, Des O'Malley.

China's state media CCTV showed the three-month-old baby being retrieved from the rubble of a collapsed building in Zhengzhou City.

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs allegedly kicked his ex-girlfriend in the back and threw her naked out of their hotel bedroom, a court has heard.