Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan has said he was hopeful and confident that Ireland would "be able to be part of the solution" and sign up to a new global tax agreement.

At least 216,000 children were victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy in France since 1950, a report has found.

Westlife's Mark Feehily has joined the voices of those campaigning for the introduction of surrogacy legislation in Ireland.

Vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer jab stays highly effective against severe Covid - including the Delta variant - for at least six months, an analysis of US patients has found.

Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5bn users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

A man in his 40s has died and two other people were seriously injured following an assault at a house in Blanchardstown in Dublin this afternoon.

Australia is to purchase 300,000 courses of Merck & Co's experimental antiviral pill, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Three men have been arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.

Focus Ireland helped a record number of 1,829 households to avoid homelessness or to find a new home last year, according to its annual report.

The Australian pastor and founder of a global Pentecostal megachurch has pleaded not guilty to concealing his father's alleged child sexual abuse.

The son and namesake of the Philippines' former dictator Ferdinand Marcos has said he will run for president in the 2022 election, as the controversial clan seeks the ultimate political revival.

The trial of a once powerful Catholic cardinal and nine others resumes today at the Vatican over alleged financial fraud and a disastrous London property deal paid for with charity funds.

There has been a slight increase in the number of patients in hospital with Covid-19.

The largest ever survey of coral health has found that dynamite fishing and pollution, but mostly global warming, wiped out 14% of the world's coral reefs from 2009 to 2018.

Leading health experts have come up with a list of ways to stay mentally well, including eating healthily and staying fit.

The mother of a young woman who was beaten to death by her former partner almost two years ago has said her family are broken by the thought of the evil she suffered in her final hours.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described the new National Development Plan as "unprecedented in scale" and one that will shape Ireland's response to the housing crisis and the challenge of climate change.

The Government said its €35 billion investment in the transport system will transform how the country travels and halve Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

A retired garda superintendent has been charged over a cannabis seizure in Dublin last week.

There are no big new innovative transformational projects in the new National Development Plan. But it is not be true to say that there are no big changes. There are, writes George Lee.