The Government Covid-19 sub-committee will meet today in advance of an expected decision tomorrow to keep the current public health restrictions in place next month.

A report by the Oxfam charity claims the fortunes of Ireland's billionaires has risen €3.3bn since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Border restrictions are being tightened around the world today in the face of an unrelenting coronavirus threat.

More than 70 doctors responded to a call by Cork University Hospital at the weekend to redeploy to its intensive care unit to deal with the surge in Covid-19 cases.

An 85-year-old woman believed by her family to have died from the coronavirus surprised her relatives by returning to her care home nine days after they were told she had been buried, a newspaper reported yesterday.

US President Joe Biden will reimpose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Ireland, Britain, Brazil, and much of Europe, a White House official said, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response.

The interest rates on several State savings schemes are to be reduced, the National Treasury Management Agency has announced.

Online fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m in a deal that will see the eponymous department store name survive, but the company's remaining 118 stores close for good in the UK.

Indian and Chinese troops have fought a new brawl on their contested Himalayan border, leaving injuries on both sides, military officials have said.

An association representing social workers is calling for HSE social workers to be part of Covid-19 response teams deployed to overwhelmed nursing homes, in order to assist communications with families.

Nine more Chinese miners trapped underground for over two weeks have been confirmed dead, state media reported today, leaving one still unaccounted for after a blast at the site.

An article of impeachment against former US president Donald Trump will be sent to the US Senate today paving the way for his trial next month.

The unleashing of €13 billion in household savings and significant pent-up demand will lead to a surge in consumer spending that will fuel a 5% growth in core domestic demand this year, new research from stockbroker Goodbody says.

UK online fashion giant ASOS has confirmed it is in exclusive talks with administrators for Philip Green's Arcadia retail empire.

Two issues have emerged in Northern Ireland - travel arrangements amid the pandemic and pressure for a border poll, writes Tommie Gorman.

There have been 23 more coronavirus-related deaths reported by the Department of Health, as well as 1,378 new cases of Covid-19.

January has been a deadly month for Ireland, with Covid-19 deaths so far this year fast approaching 700.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said it would be "absolutely reckless" to be distracted by the topic of a border poll at a time when it is about "coming together" to fight against a pandemic.

A virtual commemoration took place in the Mansion House in Dublin this evening to mark National Holocaust Memorial Day.

The possibility of Leaving Certificate exams going ahead as normal is still "a live and viable" prospect, according to the General Secretary of one of the country's secondary school teachers' unions.