Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said it is his understanding that the UK will not trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Two wards have been closed in the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, on the outskirts of Belfast, due to Covid-19 outbreaks.

More than 700,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation's capital Washington, DC.

A record 38 Chinese military jets crossed into Taiwan's defence zone as Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taipei has reported.

As the EU will not be revealing its responses to the "Command Paper" of July for another fortnight (apart from promising a fix on medicines) there is no sense in going to Article 16 just now - especially during Conservative party conference week.

Energy companies have announced multiple price increases so far this year, with some households likely to end up paying hundreds of euro more per year to keep the lights on. So what's behind this sudden increase in costs?

We have come a long way to get to this point in the pandemic. Through dark days and anxious nights. But the times are changing and the world has a different feel to it now.

On National Women's Enterprise Day next week, female entrepreneurs and businesswomen will share their stories of success, sexism and everything in between.

Pharmaceutical company Merck has said it will seek authorisation in the US for an oral drug for Covid-19, after the pill showed "compelling results" in a clinical trial.

Military tanker drivers are to be deployed to deliver fuel to forecourts across Britain from Monday amid continuing supply issues at filling stations.

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,059 new cases of Covid-19. There are 308 people in hospital who have tested positive for the virus.

California will become the first US state to mandate statewide Covid-19 vaccinations for schoolchildren as early as January, Governor Gavin Newsom said today.

A serial killer suspected in some of France's oldest unsolved cases has been found dead after 35 years on the run, just as police were closing in on his identity.

A new flow of highly liquid lava emerged from the volcano erupting in Spain's Canary islands Friday, authorities said, as a huge magma shelf continues to build on the Atlantic ocean.

President Michael D Higgins, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, U2, and Sting were among those who paid tribute to Bob Geldof on his 70th birthday on a surprise Late Late Show special dedicated to the singer on Friday night.

Irish people living Down Under - and Australians who have been stuck here since the pandemic affected worldwide travel in March 2020 - are now hoping to return home for weddings and long overdue family reunions.

The independent chairperson of Croke Park community meetings Noeline Blackwell has said that five concerts are "sanctioned, planned and are going ahead" in Croke Park next year.

The Church of Ireland is to complete its divestment from companies that extract fossil fuels by the end of this year.

Electric Ireland has today announced its second price increase for residential customers this year, becoming the latest energy provider to raise prices.

Police in London have come under fire for suggesting women should flag down a bus if they have concerns when stopped by an officer in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder.