The risk of an expanded Iran war grew as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis yesterday launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, as additional US forces reached the Middle East.

There will be no capital gains tax applied to income earned under the new investment scheme being developed by the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris.

A woman in her 40s and a teenage girl have appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court charged in connection with a serious assault in Co Tipperary last weekend, which left a young woman in a critical condition in hospital.

A man has been arrested after a car hit and injured pedestrians in Derby in England yesterday evening.

Landowners along the route of the planned North South Interconnector have been told that compulsory easements will no longer be sought for access to lands earmarked for pylons.