The first of the walk-in Covid-19 vaccination centres, operating over the bank holiday weekend, open today.

Aidan Walsh guaranteed Ireland at least one more medal at the Olympic Games with an assured performance in the welterweight quarter-finals.

A cross-party group of TDs and Senators will meet today to discuss concerns raised by President Michael D Higgins over the high level of legislation he is being asked to consider in a short time frame.

Police have charged a 29-year-old woman with the murder of a baby in Belfast.

A statue made in Co Wicklow will soon depart for the US, where it will form the centrepiece of a memorial to more than a thousand Irish immigrants who are buried in unmarked sunken graves in Leadville, Colorado.

We get our first glimpse of the track athletes on Day 7 of the Tokyo Games, while action continues in boxing, sailing and hockey. Follow it all here.

Scarlett Johansson has sued Walt Disney Co for breach of contract for streaming the film Black Widow on the Disney+ channel at the same time as the cinema release.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has confiscated 84 cars seized from a dealership in Co Tipperary last year and €153,000 from a company bank account in Co Kerry.

Aidan Walsh's father has said he has no doubt the Belfast boxer can secure Olympic gold in Tokyo.

The International Space Station was thrown briefly out of control yesterday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA said.

The Philippines will send more than 13 million people in the capital region back into lockdown next week, as it tries to head off a surge in cases of the Delta variant.

The announcement came as the bank reported a significant narrowing of its first half operating loss to €7 million from €276 million in the same period last year.

The White House said this week that US travel restrictions affecting countries including Ireland, the UK and most of Europe will be kept in place for now due to the rise of the Delta variant of Covid-19.

MCD Productions and Festival Republic have written to the Taoiseach, Arts Minister Catherine Martin and other members of Government with proposals of how events including Electric Picnic could go ahead later this year.

A Hong Kong waiter has been jailed for nine years after he became the first person convicted under a sweeping new national security law that Beijing imposed on the city to stamp out dissent.

Israel will start offering a third dose of Covid-19 vaccinations to people aged over 60, becoming one of the first countries to provide a booster shot.

Japan's government is to extend a virus state of emergency in Tokyo and impose the measure in four more regions, as cases surge a week into the pandemic-postponed Olympics.

Political leaders will hold discussions on a range of issues at the North South Ministerial Council today.

Siobhan Haughey - the grandniece of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey - has won her second medal for Hong Kong at Tokyo 2020.

The US President has urged local governments to pay people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, and set new rules requiring federal workers to provide proof of vaccination or face regular testing, mask mandates and travel restrictions.