Fianna Fáil TD for Offaly and Foreign Affairs committee member Barry Cowen has said the Taoiseach needs to address the issue regarding the "content" of the texts shared yesterday by Leo Varadkar over a UN role for former minister Katherine Zappone.

A state of emergency has been declared in New York City after Tropical Storm Ida brought record-breaking rainfall.

The Government will today launch its housing plan titled Housing for All, with the multi-billion euro strategy set to detail guaranteed spending plans for the next five years.

People whose images have been shared online without their consent will be able to seek help for them to be removed from the internet.

India has reported the biggest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases in two months, as the government worries about the virus spreading from the most-affected Kerala state, schools reopening, and the start of the festival season.

Irish Ferries is liable to pay compensation to potentially thousands of passengers whose sailings between Ireland and France were cancelled in the summer of 2018 due to the late delivery of a new vessel, according to a finding by Europe's highest cou...

Fire crews in California have fought back a huge, wind-driven wildfire, leaving the resort town of South Lake Tahoe unscathed as flames crept toward Nevada.

Housing completions this year could top 22,000, according to an analysis by Banking and Payments Federation Ireland.

China has banned reality talent programmes and ordered broadcasters to promote more masculine representations of men, in a wide-ranging crackdown on "immoral" pop culture Beijing believes is leading young people astray.

A seven-year-old boy has been playing a key role in a seagrass conservation project in Co Wexford.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are preparing to announce their new government as the economy teeters on the edge of collapse more than two weeks after the group took control of the country last month.

The US Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, dealing a major blow to abortion rights by leaving in place a state law that prohibits the vast majority of abortions.

Joe Rogan, the famous US podcast host, has tested positive for Covid-19.

The Minister for Higher and Further Education has said he is excited about the reopening of college campuses.

Pregnant women are to be offered an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine at any stage of pregnancy, under changes to the national vaccination programme that have been announced.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has outlined the text message communication he had with both Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, and former minister Katherine Zappone, about the role of special envoy for freedom of opinion and expression.

The Taoiseach has said that the National Public Health Emergency Team will cease to exist as a separate body over time.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 1,789 new cases of Covid-19, with 360 people in hospital, and 56 being treated in intensive care.

It took a record-breaking Cristiano Ronaldo goal in the 89th minute and another in the sixth minute of injury-time to deny the Republic of Ireland a historic victory in their World Cup qualifying clash with Portugal at the Estadio Algarve.