Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described Sinn Féin's decision to table a motion of no-confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney next as "old style naked opposition politics".

Denmark has lifted the last of its Covid-19 restrictions meaning a return to offices, no masks and an end to vaccine passports in nightclubs.

US President Joe Biden has taken aim at vaccine resistance in America.

Workmen have been busy all week getting the stages and barricades ready at the 9/11 Memorial in New York ahead of tomorrow's anniversary ceremony.

It is often referred to as the day that changed the world, but the repercussions of the 9/11 attacks US were felt far beyond the locations of New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

A growing crime problem has communities in South Armagh and South Down increasingly concerned about law and order and policing, explains Paul Murphy.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he would like to meet with the two senior Sláintecare officials who resigned from their roles on Wednesday.

The US Justice Department has filed a suit against Texas over a law that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

Austrian police said they had discovered the body of an 89-year-old woman who died over a year ago and was mummified in the cellar by her son who wanted to continue receiving her benefits.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for new measures at policy, industry and individual level to halt the rise in packaging waste in Ireland after official figures showed the amount is rising by more than 10% per year.

US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have spoken for 90 minutes in their first talks in seven months.

A firefighter has died in a Spanish wildfire which has forced the evacuation of more than 900 people from around the southern resort of Estepona.

Most of us throw them away, but one Dublin artist is turning avocado stones into jewellery.

Schools are taking a number of measures to try and keep all their students in school during the Delta wave of Covid-19, Oonagh Smyth explains.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,292 new cases of Covid-19, while the number of people in hospital stands at 331, of whom 54 are in ICU.

The HSE has revised downwards the estimate for the number of school children and young people who have been obliged to stay home from school because they have been deemed a close contact of a confirmed case of Covid-19.

R Kelly sexually assaulted a woman at his Chicago studio nearly two decades ago, where he locked her up without food and water, the woman testified at the R&B singer's trial today.

Post-mortem examinations have been taking place at University Hospital Kerry on the bodies of 56-year-old Eileen O'Sullivan, her partner Mossie O'Sullivan, who was 63, and their 24-year-old son, Jamie.

Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen is understood to have told a meeting of party colleagues that party leader and Taoiseach Micheál Martin cannot take his position for granted.