The proportion of top grades awarded to candidates in this year's Leaving Certificate has risen significantly compared to last year.

A man in his 50s is due to appear in court charged in connection with the murder of Conor O'Brien in Co Meath last week.

Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal won their second gold medal of Tokyo 2020 when the dominant duo triumphed in the B road race at Fuji International Speedway.

New Zealand police shot and killed a "violent extremist" who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.

The European Commission and AstraZeneca said they have reached a settlement on the delivery of the remaining Covid-19 vaccine doses by the British drugmaker and also ended the pending litigation in Brussels.

"To play the piano here is an amazing opportunity, because it is part of my therapy," says Nelson Aguilar, a volunteer at the Covid-19 vaccination centre in Citywest, Dublin.

The impact of poor living conditions for residents in a Co Donegal nursing home has been highlighted in a report by the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Our class of 2021 is getting the best of both worlds and - after the time they've had over the past year and a half - few, if any would, begrudge them.

A British-born man who was a member of a team of militants of the so-called Islamic State in Syria nicknamed 'The Beatles' has pleaded guilty to eight US criminal charges including lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to support terrorists.

19-year-old Jenna Coughlan is typical of many Irish teenagers, in that for much of the pandemic she was stuck at home in her bedroom.

The Land Development Agency has said it will accelerate housing building projects to deliver up to 26,000 new social and affordable homes.

Updates from day 10 of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

The Taliban is close to forming a government in Afghanistan, under intense international scrutiny over its vow to rule with greater tolerance, especially on women's rights.

Flash flooding has killed at least 44 people in four northeastern US states as remnants of Storm Ida brought torrential rains that swept away cars, submerged New York City subway lines and grounded flights.

The UK will send four million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced, as his country raced to halt a deadly virus outbreak.

Fáilte Ireland is launching a campaign aimed at attracting workers into the tourism and hospitality industry.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said he will step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular Covid-19 response and rapidly dwindling public support.

The President and Taoiseach have led tributes to Pat Hume, widow of the late SDLP leader and Nobel Prize winner John Hume, who has died.

The Government has launched what Taoiseach Micheál Martin described as an "unprecedented" housing plan supported by over €4 billion in guaranteed State funding every year.

Housing has always been a big political issue, given its importance in all our lives. But in the past ten years its prominence in political debate has intensified to become the key political battleground of our time.