Airlines, airports and the tourism industry are preparing for an uptick in business from this morning as travel restrictions into and out of the country are eased, with Ireland to join the rest of the EU in implementing the Digital Covid Certificate.

An independent police team investigating the murder of a Co Louth farmer by the IRA 30 years ago has uncovered new forensic evidence it believes could identify the killers.

The last remaining legal measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 have been removed in England.

A capacity issue in the National CervicalCheck Screening Service has led to the samples of 180 women going out of date, and women will be informed that they need to be retested, RTÉ News has established.

A meteorologist with Met Éireann has said the high temperatures experienced over the weekend are likely to be exceeded over the next few days.

After much debate, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games begin on Friday, a year late, amid strict Covid-19 prevention measures, writes Paul O'Flynn.

An American father-son duo who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee Japan were sentenced to 20 months and two years in prison by a Tokyo court today.

Australian authorities said Victoria state will extend a Covid-19 lockdown beyond Tuesday despite a slight drop in new infections as the country's two biggest cities fight to stop the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant.

Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have jointly urged the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after a peace meeting in Doha failed to agree on a ceasefire.

The long-running corruption trial of South Africa's jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma is due to resume virtually today, despite deadly violence that swept the nation after his imprisonment in an unrelated case.

The Australian government on Monday ordered Katie Hopkins to be deported after what a senior minister called her "shameful" boast about flouting quarantine rules while in the country to appear on Big Brother VIP.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on a visit to the flood-stricken region of Germany that she was horrified by the "surreal, eerie" devastation she witnessed, pledging quick aid to rebuild.

Concerns have been raised about the impact of excessive heat on the country's water supplies and the ability to combat wildfires, as temperatures are expected to remain in the high 20s for the week.

The Department of Health has reported a further 1,179 confirmed cases of Covid-19. It said there are 91 people in hospital with the coronavirus, while there are 22 people in ICU, no change from yesterday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the public to remain prudent against Covid-19 on the eve of lifting pandemic curbs in England, as he confirmed he is self-isolating until 26 July.

France will outlaw the culling of male chicks in the poultry industry in 2022 after years of protests from animal welfare activists, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has announced.

New York Police Department officers have arrested a man they say was caught on video snatching a child off a city street and tossing him in a car.

Two South African football players have become the first athletes to test positive for coronavirus in the Olympic Village.

There are disagreements in the US over how to tackle the threats facing our planet but as temperatures soar this summer, climate change is the hot topic of conversation for many Americans.

Deaths of doctors from Covid-19 in Indonesia rose sharply in the first half of July, according to the profession's association, as the Delta variant of the coronavirus fuelled a surge in infections across the country.