A consultant in intensive care medicine at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital has said the pressure on critical care is "grim and worrying" with the numbers being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals has risen to 1,575.

Letterkenny University Hospital has apologised to patients who had to wait in ambulances outside before being admitted to the hospital yesterday.

Congressional Democrats today begin their drive to force President Donald Trump from office, kicking off a week of legislative action that could end with a vote that would make him the only president in US history to be impeached twice.

Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, which is owned by US President Donald Trump, has been stripped of the 2022 PGA Championship.

The case of two people convicted of murdering Irish man Jason Corbett in the US is to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court today.

Vaccinations against coronavirus are being ramped in England up as mass injection centres open, but pleas have been made to the public to stick to the lockdown rules to prevent avoidable deaths.

Restrictions on price promotions of alcohol products come into effect today under new legislation.

An amateur sailor is building his own boat at home in Co Wicklow to fulfil a lifelong dream of sailing solo across the Atlantic.

China has reported its biggest daily increase in Covid-19 cases in over five months, the country's health authority said, as new infections in Hebei province surrounding Beijing continued to rise.

Divers searched waters off Jakarta, Indonesia today for black boxes from a passenger jet that crashed at the weekend with 62 people aboard, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims' remains.

Nearly 16,500 jobs were created by Enterprise Ireland (EI) backed companies last year, similar to 2019 levels.

One year ago, China announced the first death from a new virus in Wuhan. 12 months later, Covid-19 has claimed 1.9 million lives in an unrelenting march across the world.

Residents of a small town in South Australia state were warned to seek shelter as firefighters were called in to battle a fast-moving grassfire.

The Department of Health has been notified of eight further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 6,888 new cases.

A hospital in Northern Ireland has appealed to off duty staff to report for duty to help deal with increasing pressures caused by Covid-19.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin will make a State apology to the survivors of mother-and-baby homes in the Dáil next week, a spokesman for the Government has confirmed.

Head of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has warned that early this week the number of people with Covid-19 in hospital is likely to be "double" what it was at the peak of last year, which was 881.

The HSE was warned in November 2019 by the health watchdog HIQA that its computerised infectious disease reporting management system needed to be "fit for purpose" for future demands.

Yesterday's call-out to a major fire at the R&H Hall facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, was the third call to the site since September.

A truck containing aid to help thousands of people impacted by an earthquake in Croatia last month leaves Ireland today.