Irish citizen Donna Hughes-Brown, who had been held by immigration authorities in the US for almost five months, has said it is fabulous to be free but she is still feeling a bit overwhelmed since her release last week.

Two suspects in last week's deadly mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach trained for the attack in the countryside, police have alleged in court documents, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowed tougher laws against hate speech and extremism.

Bank customers are being warned to be vigilant of increasingly sophisticated scams circulating this Christmas.

A senior Russian general has been killed in southern Moscow after an explosive device placed under his car went off, investigators have said.

The Department of Transport has ordered 100 energy-efficient DART carriages to replace the original fleet in service since the DART opened in 1984.

The President of Ireland Catherine Connolly has used her first Christmas message to encourage people to reflect "on the values that truly matter: kindness, tolerance, respect for each other's differences, and to reflect on how we may nurture our shar...

Japan's regional assembly has backed a plan to allow the world's largest nuclear power plant to resume operations, a watershed moment in the country's return to nuclear energy nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.

The Government has announced a new €400m equity programme in the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to deliver new homes.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said that flu cases are likely to peak during Christmas week.

Ukrainian top negotiator Rustem Umerov said he will meet with US counterparts, as a third day of talks to end the war was about to begin in Miami.

A minute's silence has been observed at Sydney's Bondi Beach, one week on from a gun attack which happened during a seaside Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others.

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, a presidential spokesman said, after 100 were freed earlier this month.

Around 2,000 people have gathered at Newgrange to celebrate the Winter Solstice.

Questions of judgment and perception remain for Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin in the aftermath of a review of the presidential campaign.

US Justice Department officials denied redacting the Epstein files to protect President Donald Trump as criticism mounted over the partial and heavily censored release of documents.

A drone attack on a busy market in Sudan's North Darfur state killed 10 people over the weekend, first responders said, without saying who was responsible.

"It's a diplomatic dance" - from brawling delegates to impossible demands, Michael Browne from Limerick City has seen it all in his two decades in security at the UN in New York. Now as he retires, he reflects on some heart-stopping moments and ponde...

There needs to be more support for foster carers to ensure the number of children in residential care does not increase, according to the Irish Foster Care Association.

A conservation ecologist who is in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like "Noah's Ark" for plants - a vault for renewal after ecological disasters.

The painter Anne Madden has died at her home in Dublin. She was 93 years of age.