The Health Service Executive has said that a third dose of Covid-19 vaccine for those who are immunocompromised will get under way from next week.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin will address the UN General Assembly in New York today.

Young people across Ireland are skipping school today to strike for climate action, with protests scheduled for Dublin, Cork and Galway city centres.

Footprints dating back 23,000 years have been discovered in the US, suggesting humans settled in North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

Five climbers died after they got caught in a sudden snowstorm on Russia's Mount Elbrus.

Young people are being urged to join a "global climate strike" in locations in Ireland and around the world.

Fifteen Scott Medals for Bravery are to be presented today to retired and serving gardaí and members of their family for their courage during the kidnapping of businessman Don Tidey more than 37 years ago.

President Michael D Higgins has encouraged people to reflect on and highlight the challenges posed to people with disabilities.

Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum.

China Evergrande inched closer today to the potential default that investors fear as an interest deadline expired without any announcement from the property giant whose mountain of debt has spooked world markets.

European MEP and former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has been arrested in Italy.

A document sent to members of Inner City Helping Homeless, a Dublin-based charity, details four serious allegations of abuse that were made against its former CEO, Anthony Flynn.

Sheer player power may stack the odds in America's favour at the 43rd Ryder Cup, but Padraig Harrington's would-be heroes have plenty of pedigree and character to call on.

Britain has today vowed to do whatever it takes to resolve a trucker shortage that has forced oil giant BP to close some petrol stations and strained supermarket supply chains to breaking point.

Hillary Clinton expressed hope she can inspire young people in Northern Ireland as she prepared to be formally installed as chancellor of Queen's University.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has appealed his conviction for the murder of George Floyd, citing 14 complaints about his high-profile trial earlier this year in a case that roiled the United States and laid bare deep racial division...

Two men have been charged with riot offences by detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in 2019.

A shooter opened fire at a supermarket near Memphis, Tennessee, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others before he shot himself dead, police said.

A light aircraft with four people on board has crash landed on a beach off Carnsore Point in Co Wexford.

A Government plan to provide annual leave to healthcare workers, in recognition of their hard work during the Covid-19 pandemic, could be spread out over two years.