Follow live developments as Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant is asked to review the Parades Commission determination to allow the Orange Order march at Drumcree.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is urging learner drivers to familiarise themselves with new permit rules that take effect from 1 November.

A strong 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near the southern coast of Panama at a 10km depth, according to the US Geological Survey.

Dáil votes could take place next Tuesday night instead of on the usual day of Wednesday because of a national strike day.

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the US believes has become politicised and attemp...

Former The Fray star Isaac Slade and American Idol contestant Brooks Rosser have joined Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour.

Anthropic has moved to bar users from treating its Claude AI system with needless cruelty, amid a growing philosophical debate over whether artificial intelligence can be conscious.

Sinn Féin deputy leader and Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill has received a letter from the PSNI asking her to attend a voluntary interview under caution in connection with protests ...

Scientists have again advised that there should be "zero" fishing of cod next year across vast swathes of sea around the UK amid growing concerns over the collapse of fish stocks.

Irish public hospital waiting lists have surpassed one million patients for the first time.

A former US soldier charged with murdering Co Kerry sheep farmer Mike Gaine wants new barristers ahead of his nine-week trial next January, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man who threw a bottle at a PSNI Land Rover on the Garvaghy Road, "out of frustration" because he could not get to the off licence, has been handed jail sentences totalling six months.

Two paintings by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been recovered, weeks after they were stolen from a museum in southern France, according to the town's mayor.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the Government wants to honour the funding agreement made with RTÉ and he said he believed the issue can be resolved.

Saudi Arabia has said three Saudi nationals, including a pilot, have been killed in attacks on Riyadh's international airport.

Irish officials say a deal has been reached between EU finance ministers on a key element of the proposed Savings and Investment Union, a set of new rules designed to enhance cross-border investing in...

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 has been awarded to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

Life for people in Gaza "remains absolutely horrendous" with 90% of people living in temporary shelters, a high-ranking UN official has said.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 has been awarded to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay.

Irish officials say they are confident a deal is close between EU finance ministers on a key element of the proposed Savings and Investment Union.

Isaias has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it headed toward the US Gulf Coast, prompting mandatory evacuations and disrupting oil and gas production.

US immigration agents shot and wounded a man in his car with a child present in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of New York ⁠City, according to the mayor, city police and eyewitnesses.

Malaysia closed schools in Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country, as haze from fires in neighbouring Indonesia again plunged local air quality to among the world's worst.

Charles Manson acolyte Patricia Krenwinkel, who has spent nearly six decades in prison for murder, has been preliminarily granted parole, California prison authorities said.

Job openings across Ireland were down on an annual basis by 4.8% in the third quarter of the year, according to the latest employment monitor from recruitment firm Morgan McKinley.

Researchers from Dublin City University are exploring how processes originally developed for the manufacturing of computer chips could be used to extract oxygen from lunar soil.

The UK Labour party has retained the Holborn and St Pancras seat in a London by-election called after former prime minister Keir Starmer stepped down, with the Green Party conceding defeat.

While US Republicans and Democrats remain deeply divided on most issues, there is one issue where they appear to be increasingly aligned - data centres.

Changes to direct taxes, welfare measures, and childcare supports in this week's Budget will result in "small income gains" for people, according to the ESRI.

Ukraine's negotiators will hold talks with US President Donald Trump's envoys, and a "European team" in the United States today and tomorrow, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

The US will livestream the army's upcoming firing squad execution of a man who ⁠killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon has said.

The US will livestream the army's upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who fatally shot 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, according to a Pentagon official.

Two window cleaners were rescued from the 15th floor of a London skyscraper after their cradle malfunctioned and they became trapped.

Former GAA president John Horan has been announced as the new chairperson of the Steering Group on Integration (SGI), replacing Dr Mary McAleese who recently stepped down from the role.

Graffiti targeting a journalist in west Belfast has been condemned as the PSNI launched an investigation into reports of threatening daubings.

Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence rescue service said that seven people were killed in separate Israeli strikes, while the Israeli army said three of the victims were "military operatives".

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, has failed in a High Court bid challenging how the media regulator, Comisiún na Meán, deals with user complaints against social media platforms.

A 68-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with raping a woman during a violent burglary in Dublin over 23 years ago.

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has described as "contradictory" the Law Society of Ireland's position on reforms to the criminal legal aid system.

A man who met Lee Slattery before he was shot dead has told a murder trial that the accused indicated he was not to accompany two men as they travelled to the site where Mr Slattery's body was later d...

Russia has downplayed the plague scare but on the streets of Shelekhov - the town on the frontlines of the incident - rumours have filled the information abyss.

A 32-year-old man has denied murdering three members of his family at their home in Co Louth last year by stabbing them repeatedly in what was described as a sustained and violent attack.

Around 250 nurses and midwives who are members of the INMO took part in a lunchtime protest at Cork University Hospital.

Spanish politicians have traded blame after the death of an 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her home in the capital Madrid sparked housing protests across the country.

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst has described a meeting with Minister for Media Patrick O'Donovan this afternoon as "extremely constructive".

Police are to start issuing letters to those suspected of having committed a criminal offence in the ongoing dispute over an Orange Order parade in Co Armagh.

A criminal investigation into former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is ongoing despite the search warrants that allowed British police officers to raid two of his properties being ruled unlawful, t...

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said that he will "appraise" the data in relation to criminal legal aid reforms and make changes if he believes they are needed.

A man accused of carrying out an "unprovoked" attack on Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae as he sat in traffic in Dublin has been granted High Court bail.

Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical ⁠tradition, has created new forms for co...