Israeli forces have intercepted 39 boats carrying aid and foreign activists to Gaza, leaving only one vessel still sailing towards the Palestinian enclave, the flotilla organisers said today.

Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange wind warning for counties along the west coast, saying that difficult travelling conditions and power outages are expected.

Permission has been granted for Dublin's long-awaited Metrolink project linking the city centre to the airport.

Doctors in Dublin say they have been carrying out pioneering heart surgery on children with heart defects at CHI Crumlin.

European Union leaders have backed plans for a new defence network against Russian drones following recent incursions into European airspace.

Twelve hundred people under the age of 65 are currently living in nursing homes, largely due to a lack of accessible housing according to to the Irish Wheelchair Association.

Irish singer CMAT has postponed her sold-out UK tour due to an emergency dental issue.

Follow live developments as candidates Heather Humphreys, Jim Gavin and Catherine Connolly continue campaigning in the Presidential Election.

Gardaí have released a facial reconstruction image in a bid to identify the skeletal remains of a woman that were discovered at a construction site on the Midleton to Youghal Greenway in Cork on 5 January 2021.

Rescuers have detected "no more signs of life" at a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people were believed missing days after it gave way, an official has said, raising fears no more survivors would be found.

Tánaiste Simon Harris has signalled that next week's budget will contain measures to tackle vacancy and dereliction in cities and towns.

45,000 Irish people went to America under the Morrison Visa programme between 1992 and 1995, reporter Yvonne Murray meets some of those recipients at a glitzy gala dinner at the top of the Rockefeller Centre in New York to hear their stories.

Mobile phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan yesterday, local residents said, some 48 hours after diplomatic and industry sources said connectivity was abruptly cut on the orders of the Taliban administration.

Follow live coverage of developments as Israel intercepts the latest flotilla heading towards Gaza.

Australian convicted murderer Erin Patterson will appeal her guilty verdict for killing three people with toxic mushrooms, her lawyer has told a court, after a trial that attracted global media attention.

A photo of the Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin and the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces Rossa Mulcahy was deleted this evening from Mr Gavin's social media campaign platforms.

A 23-year-old man charged in connection with an attack in Dublin city centre in July, during which a garda was stabbed, has been further charged with arson and terrorist offences.

Russian shelling has cut power to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, part of which was destroyed in a 1986 nuclear meltdown, Ukraine's energy ministry said.

Primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

What exactly are the rules and regulations when it comes to flying drones in Ireland, and how easy is it to determine when they are breached?