The National Public Health Emergency Team meets today and is expected to consider proposals around increased mask wearing at outdoor events and possibly in primary schools.

Experts who have been tracking the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have found that the risk of Covid infection increases the longer it is since people had a second dose.

The UK and France are looking at new measures to limit migration across the English Channel and break people-smuggling networks after at least 27 people trying to reach England died off the northern French coast.

More people making the perilous journey across the English Channel have been brought ashore following the deadliest day of the current migrant crisis.

Garth Brooks has added a third date for his upcoming run at Croke Park due to phenomenal demand.

Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, who quit just hours after becoming the first woman elected Sweden's prime minister, is a "bulldozer" who faces a tough battle fending off an unprecedented challenge in next year's general election.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has announced extra funding for organisations supporting victims of abuse and crime.

Just over a quarter of first-time buyers of homes were aged 30 or under last year, according to an analysis of data carried out by the Banking and Payments Federation.

A UK charity that helps refugees access safe routes to asylum has said the deaths of 27 migrants off the northern coast of France must be a "turning point".

Organisers of the next census say they have already received a lot of interest from people for the role of enumerator.

More than 130 civil society groups largely from developing countries are calling on the WTO to concentrate on approving an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines.

An Emirati general accused of torture has been elected president of Interpol, the global police agency said, despite the concerns of human rights organisations and members of the European Parliament.

New Zealanders living in Ireland react to today's news that the country will reopen its borders to them from early next year for the first time since the pandemic.

There are no Covid-19 PCR tests available in 23 counties, according to the Health Service Executive's portal this evening.

An investigation is under way into the death of a man in Balbriggan, Co Dublin this afternoon.

A group of Irish truckers and hauliers has caused significant disruption into and around Dublin city as part of a protest calling for lower fuel costs at the pump and at home.

Three white men have been found guilty of murder for shooting dead a black man in the southern US state of Georgia, after chasing him in their pickup trucks.

The Tánaiste has told a Fine Gael meeting that the current Covid wave looks to be plateauing at a worryingly high level.

Sweden's first female prime minister resigned after less than 12 hours in the top job after the Green Party quit her coalition, plunging the country into political uncertainty.

Ethiopia has entered its second year of civil war, as government forces clash with those loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front. How did this conflict begin, and why is it proving so hard to resolve?