Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is to re-structure the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council following recent resignations, saying the events have "cast a shadow over the real progress that has been made".

More than 5,700 athletes have been entered to take part in this year's Belfast City Marathon which gets underway today - Northern Ireland's largest mass participation sporting event since the pandemic began.

New Zealand's Delta variant outbreak has spread beyond Auckland, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, to put additional regions into a snap five-day lockdown.

Negotiations around a new global corporation tax framework could be about to reach a crescendo. The 12.5% rate has been Ireland's calling card, the bedrock upon which a vibrant and lucrative export-oriented economy has been built.

The recent success of numerous Irish tech firms is not just good news for their founders and backers, writes Adam Maguire, as many of the entrepreneurs involved are now putting their money - and expertise - behind the next generation of start-ups.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is ready to take "big, bold decisions" to rebuild the country after Covid-19 as the Conservative Party conference opens in Manchester.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the US in protests aimed at countering a conservative drive to restrict access to abortions.

As the Afghan capital fell to a Taliban lightning strike at the end of August, and the lives of Irish citizens and residents were on the line, our Government faced a major dilemma.

A 53-year-old man has been charged with riot, assault, and throwing petrol bombs by detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.

Intellectual disability and mental health services provider, Nua Healthcare, is to create 300 new jobs.

This year's 'Women's March' saw thousands of people protesting against what organisers described as "the most dire threat to abortion access in our lifetime".

The London Marathon will welcome back more than 40,000 runners to its traditional route after last year's mass event was scrapped due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

Ireland has joined 14 other countries to establish a new Maritime Protected Area which covers an area eight times the size of this country's land mass.

The National Lottery has confirmed that there was no winner of last night's record jackpot draw.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said today.

The number of cases of Covid-19 has "stabilised" in recent weeks, according to the Chief Medical Officer.

Ireland is "not facing into the lights out scenario" this winter, the chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action has said.

The first cartons of goat's milk have come off the line at the Glenisk plant in Co Offaly this morning, the company's commercial director of Glenisk has said, following extensive damage to its facility earlier this week.

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

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.