Fáilte Ireland has said that it will meet Government officials today to update the public health guidelines and provide clarity on the operation of outdoor events.

Kellie Harrington will fight for a gold medal on Sunday morning after securing at least an Olympic silver, courtesy of an accomplished lightweight semi-final victory over Sudaporn Seesondee of Thailand.

A Status Yellow thunderstorm warning for Ireland is in effect for most of the day.

A group representing workers in the nightlife sector has criticised the Government's response to its reopening, warning that a continued shutdown will result in an upsurge of unregulated events.

Japan is to expand its Covid-19 emergency restrictions to cover more than 70% of the population, as a surge in cases strains the medical system in the Olympics host city Tokyo and elsewhere.

Kellie Harrington's family have been so blown away by her Olympic boxing success that even the family dog has been treated for shock.

Sydney has reported a record number of new Covid-19 cases and five coronavirus related deaths, as authorities expanded the lockdown in Australia's largest city to neighbouring regions.

Tokyo 2020 continues on day 13, with a number of Irish athletes in action, including Kellie Harrington who advanced to the 60kg lightweight final.

Fully-vaccinated travellers from France will be allowed to enter England without the need to quarantine, scrapping an extra rule imposed last month.

The Israeli air force said it carried out its first air strikes on neighbouring Lebanon in seven years following a second day of rocket fire across the border.

Never-before-seen footage of US President John F Kennedy's visit to Wexford in 1963 will be shown in public for the first time next month.

The United States plans to allow vaccinated visitors to enter the country, a White House official has said.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,314 new cases of Covid-19.

Laois County Council has refused to grant a licence to hold the Electric Picnic music festival this year.

The jury at the inquest into the death of Mark O'Sullivan in north Cork last year has returned a verdict of unlawful killing and recorded that both his brother Diarmuid and father Tadg took their own lives.

The Government has been accused of throwing public health guidelines "out the window" and changing Covid guidelines to "retrospectively approve the attendance of Tánaiste at an event".

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he accepts "mistakes were made" in the appointment of Katherine Zappone as Ireland's UN Special Envoy on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot, with Turkey hit by its most intense blazes on record and a heatwave producing a high risk of further fires and smoke pollution around the region, a European Union atmosphere monitor has said.

Barack Obama has scaled back plans for a big 60th birthday party this weekend, paring down a guest list of the rich and famous numbering in the hundreds due to the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

A Supreme Court justice in Brazil has ruled that President Jair Bolsonaro should be investigated for unproven claims the country's voting system is riddled with fraud.