Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has appealed to people who feel unwell over the weekend with Covid-19 symptoms to contact their GP immediately.

World Health Organization's Special Envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro has said there is currently a shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and it will stay like that for several months.

Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar poured back onto the streets Sunday, as an internet blackout failed to stifle growing outrage at the military's ouster of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

When shoppers do venture back to city centres and shopping centres later this year, things are going to look and feel very different.

A Hong Kong internet radio host was arrested today under a little-used colonial era sedition law that authorities have begun to wield against Beijing's critics.

Tomorrow marks one year since Election 2020 and yet everything has changed because the pandemic has transformed politics and eclipsed all other Government business with the virus dictating policy.

Northern Ireland's chief constable vowed not to quit after apologising for a police operation that saw a Troubles survivor arrested at a memorial event.

"Let them eat cake" is the inflammatory remark attributed to Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France over two hundred years ago.

Leon Spinks, the fighter who pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in boxing history in 1978 by defeating Muhammad Ali to take the undisputed world heavyweight title, has died at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer, a spokesman said.

More than 21,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived in Ireland as preparations for a wider rollout have been finalised.

Struggling food producers are turning online to reach new customers after their trade plummeted since Covid-19 restrictions hit.

An investigation into the deterioration of historic buildings in the St Mary's Hospital campus in Dublin's Phoenix Park has been launched by Dublin City Council.

There are concerns in Brussels and Dublin that both Boris Johnson and the DUP are manipulating a tense situation to undermine a Protocol. Given the tensions, the threats and ultimatums, can the EU and UK find a way out of this sudden flare-up?

Cervical cancer campaigner Lynsey Bennett is hoping to travel to Mexico on Tuesday for specialist treatment.

The Department of Health has reported that 55 more people with Covid-19 have died, and there have been 827 new cases of the virus.

Gardaí investigating an international organised crime group involved in financial fraud have identified more than €10m stolen worldwide, €9m of which has been laundered in Ireland.

A 62-year-old man is still being questioned in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a burned-out car in north Cork two days ago.

Two members of a Romanian organised crime gang are now serving jail sentences in Ireland - with one man asking to be moved to a different prison after being threatened.

A critically endangered Sumatran tiger has been shot dead while another is still on the loose after they escaped from a zoo on Borneo island, leaving a zookeeper dead, an official said.

Myanmar saw its largest anti-coup protests yet on Saturday with young demonstrators spilling on to the streets to denounce the country's new military regime, despite a nationwide internet blackout aimed at stifling a growing chorus of popular dissent...