An emergency plan has been activated after a major fire at a grain storage facility at Cork Port.

The number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 is now 1,285, up 134 on yesterday. Of these 107 are in intensive care.

Twitter has permanently suspended US President DonaldTrump's account due to the risk of further incitement of violence, the social media company said.

Season three of Covid-19 is here, and it's darker, nastier and a lot more frightening than the first two.

China confirmed that preparations were still ongoing for a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19, following a rare rebuke from the UN body over a delay to the long-planned trip.

Damien Duff has stepped down from his role as coach to Stephen Kenny's Republic of Ireland team.

Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane was in its first day of a snap lockdown today, with officials elsewhere on "high alert" over the emergence of more contagious strains of Covid-19.

In the weeks to come, the full impact of Brexit will become more and more apparent. Consumers and retailers on the island of Ireland will have to get used to the consequences.

Concerns over US President Donald Trump's mental state have drawn focus on his power to unleash a nuclear attack.

Gardaí have seized over €1 million in cash after stopping a van on the M7 motorway in Co Kildare around 6.30am this morning.

US President-elect Joe Biden welcomed Donald Trump's announcement that he will not attend the 20 January inauguration, calling it a "good thing".

There have been 20 further coronavirus-related deaths and a record 8,248 new cases of the disease notified to the Department of Health.

There remains an "increased risk" of enforcement action being taken by Scottish fisheries control authorities against Irish vessels operating in the waters around Rockall, the Government has warned.

A number of opposition TD have expressed concern about the Government's Covid-19 vaccination strategy.

US President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Irish-American Mayor of Boston Marty Walsh as his new Secretary of Labor.

Gregory Tarr, from Bandon Grammar School in Cork, has been named as the winner of the 57th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition for his project on detecting 'deepfakes'.

Members of the Garda Band are among 120 gardaí who have tonight been redeployed at short notice to frontline Covid policing.

Construction sites across the country closed this evening as new Covid-19 restrictions came into force for all but essential building projects.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has declared a "major incident" due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the city, and the increase in Covid-19 cases in hospitals.

Minister for Education Minister Norma Foley will meet representatives of special needs organisations on Monday following the decision not to reopen schools next week.