Talks to finalise the Budget are taking place in Government Buildings, with agreement still to be reached around how cuts to childcare costs will be implemented.

Bačka Topola, a one hour and 40-minute drive north of Belgrade, is an unlikely place to host a competitive international match, especially one as contested as tonight's Republic of Ireland versus Israel fixture.

A standoff over the contentious Drumcree parade continues a week on from when the march was originally supposed to go ahead.

Patients with blood cancer such as leukemia are appealing to the HSE to re-instate a stem cell transplant laboratory at Cork University Hospital.

The dispute over the Drumcree parade has brought the past into the present, writes Northern Correspondent Conor Macauley.