The Minister for Education has said the National Immunisation Advisory Council should explain the rationale behind changes to the vaccine priority list.

The family of Irishman Jason Corbett, who was killed in the United States in 2015, has said that prosecutors have offered a plea deal to his killers rather than seeking a retrial.

From today, employees will have enhanced rights to disconnect from work outside normal working hours, under a new Code of Practice published by the Government.

The World Health Organization has criticised Europe's "unacceptably slow" vaccine roll-out and said the region's surge in coronavirus infections was "worrying".

An expert review commissioned after a whistleblower raised concerns about dossiers on autistic children confirms that the Department of Health gathered "very personal" and "sensitive" information.

A film featuring a geographically-distanced duet between two dancers, produced during Covid-19 restrictions, is being shown at Wicklow Screendance Laboratory Festival.

Consultation is under way with the Department of Foreign Affairs on proposals to add a number of countries to the mandatory hotel quarantine list, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said.

Dublin's seven-in-a-row chasing football team are facing punishment from Croke Park after several players were photographed training together in the presence of a coach.

The parents of a seven-year-old girl, Lexi Ford, who on Monday spoke about how she was given an appointment with HSE school age services for November 2026, say they have received no contact from the HSE since then.

People can and should be optimistic for an enjoyable summer ahead, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said, but cautioned that everyone has to work together to prevent a further wave of Covid-19 infections.

Four people, including a child, were shot and killed yesterday evening at an office building in southern California, police have said.

John le Carré, the British novelist who cast flawed spies onto the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, was so disillusioned by the 2016 Brexit vote to leave the European Union that he secured Irish citizenship shortly before he died.

The future of the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland will be discussed when he meets his employers this morning for the first time since Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster called on him to resign.

Fewer than one in five people request a Covid-19 test if they have symptoms, while adherence to self-isolation is low, according to a large study examining the British Test and Trace system.

Hard-hit Brazil's coronavirus death toll soared in March, its deadliest month yet in the pandemic, with 66,573 people killed by Covid-19, more than double the previous record.

Irish consumers lost over €12 million through debit and credit card scams in the first half of last year, according to new figures published by the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).

The Central Bank has revised upwards its forecast for economic growth in the economy this year in its latest quarterly bulletin.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that a national portal for people to register for a Covid-19 vaccine is set to be up and running by the third week in April.

French President Emmanuel Macron has extended movement restrictions to cover the whole of France, and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to pushback a third wave of Covid-19 infections.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that shops are to be allowed to measure and sell children's shoes by appointment only.