An opinion published by an adviser to Europe's top court has boosted the case taken by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer over the retention and accessing of his mobile phone data.

The coming weeks will be uncertain and challenging, the Taoiseach told a meeting of his parliamentary party last night.

Professor Philip Nolan of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) has said it only takes a marginal change in people's behaviour to bring Covid-19 "back under control".

The EU is proposing that a 50% cut in customs formalities on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland become a legal obligation, RTÉ News understands.

Garth Brooks has announced concerts in Croke Park for 9 and 10 September 2022, with tickets going on sale next Thursday.

Canada is sending the military to help evacuate and support communities hit by "catastrophic" flooding with the death toll expected to rise after record rainfall on the Pacific coast triggered a state of emergency yesterday.

The head of the WTA has expressed increased concern for the welfare of Peng Shuai after a letter purportedly from the Chinese player appeared on state media.

The number of deaths from drugs in Ireland has increased by 225% in 25 years, according to research conducted by a network of community organisations nationwide.

Three athletes attending training events for the Beijing Winter Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19, Chinese officials said, with the country on high alert against the coronavirus ahead of the Games.

The Polish army has said it had detained a group of about 100 migrants who crossed the Belarus border during the night, accusing Belarusian forces of leading the operation.

With intensive care beds filling up and health staff running short, a hospital in Bavaria's Freising made an unprecedented decision to transfer a coronavirus patient to northern Italy for treatment.

A 50-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sexually assaulting his step-daughter was executed in the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has said the planned increases in public investment under the National Development Plan will help Ireland achieve its climate and housing goals.

Afghanistan's deep economic crisis threatens to raise the "risk of extremism" in the region, a senior UN official has warned.

The US has thrown its support behind negotiations on a treaty to curb plastic pollution, ending a key holdup in international efforts to clean up the planet's oceans and save marine life

ECHR rejects a case by a group of Irish politicians who claimed that the religious language in the oath for office of President and for members of the Council of State would potentially breach their freedom of conscience, thought and religion rights.

Stargazers in Ireland are set to see a partial eclipse of the Moon tomorrow morning, as the Sun rises.

Two men found guilty of the 1965 murder of US civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions thrown out, the Manhattan district attorney's office has said.

About one million people are currently eligible for a booster vaccine dose in Ireland, according to a Prime Time analysis of HSE vaccine data.

The Department of Health has been notified of 3,633 further coronavirus cases, with 634 people in hospital and 119 patients in intensive care.