A woman's body has been found at an apartment in Finglas in Dublin this morning.

The man suspected of abducting a four-year-old Australian girl "acted alone", police said, as they released an audio recording of the touching moment she was rescued.

The Government Climate Action plan - to be published today - will aim to have almost one million electric vehicles in operation in Ireland by 2030.

Two boys have been arrested following disorder in Belfast after a rally against the Northern Ireland Protocol.

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Covid-19 prevalence in England rose to its highest level on record in October, Imperial College London said, led by a high numbers of cases in children and a surge in the southwest of the country.

A lawyer for the armourer who oversaw weapons used on the 'Rust' movie set has suggested that someone deliberately put a live round into the gun used by Alec Baldwin when he accidentally shot a cinematographer.

The small Danish island which this week won a UN Global Climate Award was not always destined for prominence.

Young women who were vaccinated against HPV in their teens with an older GlaxoSmithKline product called Cervarix had up to an 87% lower risk of developing cervical cancer linked to the virus, an English study has found.

The barrage of announcements, pledges and promises coming from the COP26 summit this week may have left many of us feeling overwhelmed - perhaps even a little helpless.

Britain's Brexit minister is due in Paris today for talks on the fishing rights crisis that has further strained already tense relations between the two countries.

Carbon emissions have rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels, according to a new study.

The COP26 climate conference continues in Glasgow today examining issues around energy and coal in particular.

Virgin Media Ireland is to invest €200m in upgrading its network across the country to a purely fibre-based system.

One person has died, one is missing and more than 400 have been rescued after their vessels sank in the English Channel en route to Britain, French authorities has said.

A US drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians last August was not caused by criminal negligence but by a series of errors, an investigation by a military inspector general has found.

Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of enabling financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses, has endured jail conditions comparable to Hannibal Lecter's in 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, her lawyer said in a court filing today.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has said additional or wider public health measures are not being contemplated at the moment and a Covid-19 circuit breaker is not under discussion.

NPHET have no plans for a "circuit breaker" lockdown but appeal to people to cut social contacts in latest briefing

An office manager who stole €80,000 from a charity-run playgroup and spent it on house renovations and family holidays to Florida has been jailed for 18 months.