Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the British government has created a new "red line" barrier to progress that it knows the EU cannot move on.

Sydney is set to reopen after months in lockdown, officials said, with businesses reading themselves to welcome fully vaccinated residents from tomorrow.

An increase of at least €5 in the weekly State pension and a similar rise in other core welfare payments are likely to form part of Tuesday's Budget.

Taiwan will not bow to pressure by Beijing and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen has said, following a spike in incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defence zone.

An investigation is under way after four people were injured, one seriously, in a hit-and-run in Limerick.

The Budget next Tuesday will be the first real opportunity for the Government to show how serious it is about cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 51 % over the next nine years.

The mica redress scheme was billed by a senior minister as one of the largest financial support packages ever, but how will the Government manage to fully satisfy homeowners while ensuring costs do not become a runaway train?

An aircraft carrying parachutists has crashed in central Russia, the emergencies ministry said, with 15 people confirmed dead.

With Budget 2022 just days away, many people will be hoping politicians haven't forgotten about the issues impacting their lives.

Italy has reached the target of fully vaccinating 80% of the population over the age of 12 against Covid-19, according to official data, achieving a goal the government had set as a safety cut-off point.

A record amount of corporation tax and an underspend by some Government departments will deliver a much lower deficit in the public finances than forecast, according to a pre-budget White Paper published by the Department of Finance.

Austria's Sebastian Kurz has announced he is stepping down as chancellor following pressure on him to resign after he was implicated in a corruption scandal.

A hundred years ago today, the Irish leaders set out for London to achieve the impossible: They had just a few weeks to achieve the freedom Ireland had sought for centuries.

Tonight's record-breaking €19m Lotto draw has not been won.

Stephen Kenny finally recorded his first competitive victory as Ireland manager as Callum Robinson's brace guided his side to a 3-0 victory over Azerbaijan.

The Department of Health has been notified of 1,940 new cases of Covid-19 - as of this morning there were 352 patients in hospital with Covid-19 and of these, 74 people are in ICU with the virus.

The Minister for Health has said he wants to see a new Sláintecare public-only contract for hospital consultants "concluded by the end of the year".

Stronger growth, more in taxes and many, many demands on the public purse is going to make sticking to spending limits tricky, politically, writes Robert Shortt.

Three of Ireland's oldest circus families have come together for the first time for a special event to mark almost two years off the road due to Covid-19.

Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton has said the Cabinet has given Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly authorisation to re-allocate funding from areas of underspend in an effort to reduce hospital waiting lists between now and Christmas.