Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has welcomed confirmation that new travel measures taken by the UK against the Omicron variant will not apply to the common travel area.

Health officials said they have detected the Covid Omicron strain in Australia for the first time in two passengers who were tested after flying into Sydney from southern Africa.

The Department of Health has said that NPHET's Epidemiological Team is meeting regularly this weekend to monitor the Omicron variant situation in Europe, and is "currently considering further required measures".

France will host a meeting of European ministers today to discuss ways to stop migrants crossing the Channel in dinghies, but without Britain, which has been excluded following a row last week.

Chinese police have captured a North Korean prisoner who escaped from jail in October and had been on the run for more than 40 days, authorities have said

Mask rules will be mandatory in UK shops and on public transport, Omicron contacts will have to self-isolate and new arrivals will have to quarantine until they test negative for Covid-19, after two cases of the concerning new Omicron variant were de...

If you are a customer of Ulster Bank or KBC, you may want to start thinking about what bank you will switch to when they withdraw from the Irish market.

Germany and Italy have confirmed their first cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, while more nations have imposed restrictions on travel from southern Africa.

The HSE has issued an apology to people who were left waiting for several hours to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at its Citywest vaccination centre today.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has told his national convention that the transition to a green economy is inevitable and the commitment to halve greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030 is non-negotiable.

The Late Late Toy Show charity appeal has this afternoon surpassed the €5 million mark, with a total of €5,161,897 so far raised, and further donations of up to €1m yet to be added by Revolut co-founder Vlad Yatsenko.

During the pandemic perhaps the most draconian measure the Government introduced was mandatory hotel quarantine.

A Kurdish woman from northern Iraq, who was among 27 people who died trying to cross the Channel between France and Britain this week, has become the first victim to be named by British media.

The Munster squad and staff remain in South Africa and are still working on securing passage back to Ireland.

There are over 35,000 Irish citizens based in South Africa, the Department of Foreign Affairs have confirmed.

There is a "reason to be concerned" about the Covid-19 variant Omicron, the Director of UCD's National Virus Reference Laboratory has said, but added there is no reason to believe the vaccine would not be effective against it.

Next week's World Trade Organization ministerial conference, the global trade body's biggest gathering in four years, has been postponed due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant.

While last year migrants were setting forth in small dinghies that might hold ten at a stretch, now orange semi-rigid Zodiac inflatable boats were appearing in large numbers on beaches to ferry migrants across the English Channel. Crossings are now b...

As the Omicron variant makes headlines around the world within just weeks of its emergence, scientists have already expressed concerns that is the most worrying Covid-19 variant since Delta, and perhaps ever. But is the world more ready? Have lessons...

Tributes have been paid to a Derry man who died after his car was struck by a falling tree during Storm Arwen.