World Health Organization safety experts are due to meet over the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine whose rollout has been halted in several European countries over blood clot fears.

Gardaí say they will have a significant policing operation in place to deal with planned protests in Dublin city centre on St Patrick's Day.

The Government will be warned today that the country faces a wave of post office closures from June unless transformation payments are continued.

British Prime Minster Boris Johnson will today set out details of his government's post-Brexit vision for defence security and foreign policy.

The UK's defence and foreign policy review, being published today, matters to the rest of us because it will form a big part of the public face the British government wants to show to the rest of the world.

Award-winning Irish filmmaker and photographer Ross O'Callaghan is searching for people named Paddy to take part in a unique project he is putting together that will challenge the "Paddy Irishman" stereotype.

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has expressed concern over the progress of the National Children's Hospital project to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reached a content-supply deal with Facebook in Australia, in a step toward settling a dispute that saw the social media giant briefly shut down thousands of pages in the country.

Residents of a protest flashpoint district in Myanmar's biggest city fled on flatbed trucks and tuk-tuks after security forces escalated the use of lethal force against anti-coup protesters, despite international appeals for restraint.

The National Office of Clinical Audit has said that a review of trauma care for children shows that nearly 60% children who suffer a major trauma need to be transferred to another hospital for specific care and delay their treatment.

The European Medicines Agency has said its safety committee will review the information today on the AstraZeneca vaccine and will hold an extraordinary meeting on Thursday to conclude the issues.

A man and a woman have been arrested and two young children removed from a car in Ballymun in Dublin this evening which failed to stop for gardaí.

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is seeking an urgent meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin regarding her call for Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to be sacked over the leak of a confidential document.

The Department of Health has reported no further Covid-related deaths and 575 new cases.

People have been urged not to gather over the coming days amid concern over the "static" nature of the daily Covid case numbers.

From warnings that social mixing is leading to more cases of Covid-19 to advice to assume any cold-like symptoms are Covid-19 until proven otherwise, here are seven things we learned from the latest coronavirus briefing at the Department of Health.

Medically vulnerable people who expected to receive their Covid-19 vaccines in the coming weeks as part of 'Cohort 4' have called for greater clarity following the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Dublin city could become another Detroit in terms of urban decay unless the Government takes action, according to business representatives.

Hundreds of people have gathered in central London to pay tribute to Sarah Everard, the marketing executive whose body was found last Wednesday, a week after she went missing in the city.

The sister of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, has warned the new US administration that it must avoid "causing a stink" if it wants peace.