The overall cost of a scheme to fix issues in homes affected by mica could reach up to €3.2 billion.

The Health Service Executive has moved to reassure people as the roll-out gets under way of the Covid-19 vaccination "additional dose" and "booster" programmes.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has spoken with two senior members of the Sláintecare reform programme who resigned last month, RTÉ News has confirmed.

The country's newest technological university spanning six campuses across Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Westmeath formally opens today.

Australia will begin to reopen its borders next month 18 months after citizens were banned from travelling overseas without permission.

Visa restrictions could be eased for hundreds of foreign butchers, British media has reported, after industry warnings that a shortage could hit Christmas food supplies.

More than half of businesses will see their cost of water increase from today, as a result of changes to the charging system.

If you run a business, a farm, a charity, a social enterprise or any other non-domestic water user, your organisation's charges are going to change from today. But why?

Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney Studios have settled the dispute over an alleged loss of earnings for the superhero film Black Widow.

Hundreds of clubbers are at the Button Factory in Dublin this evening for the pilot night club event, with most saying they had not been at a night club for over a year and a half.

A 53-year-old woman who was suffering from a mental disorder when she stabbed a man she lived with to death has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity at the Central Criminal Court.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has found there were not enough checks carried out when people applied for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment last year.

Hundreds of north Dublin residents attended a meeting beside Croke Park this evening to hear proposals for five Garth Brooks concerts next year.

Attorney General Paul Gallagher has "no continuing private professional obligations", the Government has said.

A man whose wife died four hours after giving birth has said that the couple walked into hospital "expecting the best day of our lives and it just turned out to be completely the opposite".

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,271 new cases of Covid-19 with 297 patients in hospital, 59 of whom are in intensive care.

Forecasts for growth in the Irish economy this year have been doubled by the Department of Finance.

Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.

A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary was placed in provisional detention today after trying to flee before the opening of her trial in Germany, the court said.

Former police officer Wayne Couzens has been handed a whole life order at the Old Bailey in London for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard.