Two men in their 20s have appeared before court charged with arson offences in connection with a fire at an IPAS centre in Drogheda last week.

Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least five people when it struck Vietnam's central coast, the environment ministry has said, adding seven people had been injured.

Governments heading to the UN COP30 climate summit in Brazil are bracing for the possibility that the Trump administration may seek to disrupt negotiations at the event, even without any US officials showing up.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines to cut domestic flight operations by 4% at 40 high-traffic airports, citing safety concerns about air traffic control during the government shutdown.

A celebration of one of the Yeats Country's most distinguished but forgotten sons will take place in Sligo City Hall this evening.

Ahead of COP30, the UN has said the world will fail to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The All-Star awards are special. For one night only it's not about the winning. It's not about the All-Ireland title or the provincial title or the league. It's just about being there. That in itself is an achievement, writes Marty Morrissey.

The funeral of social justice campaigner and Focus Ireland founder Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, who died aged 86, will be held in Dublin this afternoon.

RTÉ's Director of Video has said the broadcaster's commitment to airing Irish documentaries "is not changing".

The UN Security Council will start negotiations on a US-drafted resolution to endorse President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, said a senior US government official, and authorise a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body and internationa...

More than 18,000 oysters are being deployed in Dún Laoghaire harbour in Dublin, in the next phase of an initiative to reintroduce the shellfish to Dublin Bay over 200 years after they became extinct from the area.

Tesla shareholders have approved a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach $1 trillion.

Two Britons convicted of drugs offences in Indonesia, including a 69-year-old woman on death row, were repatriated early this morning, as part of a deal to return them to the UK on humanitarian grounds.

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, has announced that it has agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators.

The Inspector of Prisons has described conditions in Irish prisons as "inhuman and degrading" and says overcrowding has contributed to the increase in deaths in custody.

A paediatric consultant doctor has described how staff in an operating theatre gasped when they saw the extent of the injuries on the face and body of a four-year-old boy.

Members of the Financial Services Union (FSU) in AIB have voted overwhelmingly to reject new hybrid working principles proposed by the bank.

This year is on track to be the second or third warmest globally as an "unprecedented streak" of high temperatures continues, UN scientists have warned.

A 21-year-old man who knocked down and killed a student at a bus stop in Limerick two years ago has had his sentence increased by five years by the Court of Appeal.

Brown Thomas launched an exclusive pop-up with the brand this morning, giving Irish shoppers their first opportunity to shop the brand in person.