Fresh protests over housing are due to take place in Madrid and other Spanish cities, a day after parliament rejected two government measures to strengthen protection for tenants.

Today FM, Shannonside Northern Sound and SPIN 1038 picked up station of the year awards at the IMRO Radio Awards 2026, with RTÉ Radio 1 securing the most awards on the night.

Emergency services and health and safety inspectors remain at the scene in Crossnacreevy.

Analysts warn unrest is likely to spill into neighbouring states and could further destabilise war-torn Sudan.

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Gardaí are appealing to any witnesses to come forward following a fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a bus on the Lower Glanmire Road.

French high school students have lit fires outside schools and faced off with police as a protest movement that has forced the closure of some 400 establishments showed no sign of abating.

While tens of thousands of women and girls will take part in Gaelic games this weekend, only a minority will step on to the pitch wearing kit that puts their comfort front and centre.

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Film-makers Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s new short is an unvarnished portrait of ICE-occupied Minneapolis

EU tax rules, excise duties and a €1.5 billion budget pot leave ministers with few options to ease the cost of filling the tank.

Single adults experiencing homelessness are spending an average of more than 10 months in emergency accommodation, according to the 2025 Annual Report from Novas.

Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson sees promise in the way the forward trio of Troy Parrott, Adam Idah and Jack Moylan dovetailed against Austria on Thursday night, having all scored agai...

‘Stop The Game’ campaign are planning to demonstrate in the city centre and outside the Aviva Stadium

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Striker scored a fine brace to put hosts in command before late collapse in a 2-2 draw.

The Irish Dental Association says it has served notice of industrial action for the first time in its history.

Police have detained hundreds as students protest overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.

The youth, now aged 17, pleaded guilty at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court to criminal damage and arson offences in 2025 targeting seven properties.

Hundreds of students from across the country are protesting in Dublin, demanding greater Government investment in higher education.

The audit of how the OPW manages its 92 residential properties produced a long list of damning conclusions.

The cost of policing the Drumcree stand-off has so far cost £3 million, PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has said.

Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022 * Business live – latest updates The private equity owner of high street pharmacy Boots is reportedly closing in on a deal to sell the business to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family for $9bn (£7bn). Sycamore Partners, which bought the wider Walgreens Boots Alliance for $23.7bn in 2025, is said to be in advanced talks with the Westons, with the Financial Times reporting that a deal could be completed as soon as next week. Continue reading...

President Donald Trump’s taxpayer-funded television ad campaign has raised serious concerns among his own advisers, with several describing the initiative as...

The band said they were “in awe of the wonderful community on the Garvaghy Road”.

Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era

The US government's AI chatbot has stopped answering some political questions after it drew attention for contradicting some of President Donald Trump's contentious political claims.

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading...

A new report shows 411 claims had been notified to the State Claims Agency by the end of last year.