From today, children aged between five and 11 years old who have a high-risk health condition, or who live with someone who is high-risk, can be registered by a parent or guardian to receive a Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

It seemed an impossible dream. But when the new taoiseach and the relatively new British prime minister met in Downing Street in February 1992, they talked about bringing peace to Ireland.

The Chief Executive of the Health Service Executive, Paul Reid, has said there is "no doubt now" that Covid-19 is "absolutely running rife in our communities".

The State Papers are the secret letters, memos and minutes written by politicians and civil servants as they wrestled with the problems of the day. They were not meant for the eyes of the public – until now.

US health authorities have halved the recommended isolation time for people with asymptomatic Covid-19, as President Joe Biden warned Americans not to panic amid a surge of cases threatening wider social disruption.

2021: A year in pictures

Two community drugs projects that provide support to people using crack cocaine in Tallaght will shut this week unless funding is provided for services.

The Covid-19 pandemic grounded passenger planes on the tarmac of airports across the world in 2020 and the impact continued into 2021.

After another year that changed our lives, RTÉ's Core Values podcast seeks to find out what we really value.

Three men in their 20s have died following a road crash involving a car and a lorry in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

The IRA's Warrington bomb in March 1993, which killed two children, caused a huge outpouring of emotion, whipped up anger against the Irish government, and revealed prejudice and misunderstanding about Ireland in the UK – but it left the IRA itself...

The Indian government has "refused" to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity has depended on to run its programmes.

The first batch of Covid-19 vaccines arrived into Ireland on St Stephen's Day last year. The supply was small and the task was enormous: to vaccinate the population.

The massive scale of Libya's support for the IRA in the 1970s and 1980s is outlined in secret documents released by the National Archives today.

For many in Government the words "ideal match" may be a stretch too far, but one thing is certain, a majority within Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party will want to keep the coalition marriage intact next year, writes Mícheál Lehane.

Newly released State Papers from 1994 show that Irish officials became increasingly frustrated by the "bloody-minded" British response to the IRA ceasefire of that year.

Almost one in two people being tested for Covid-19 in the community are now receiving a positive result, and the current demand for testing is unprecedented, the HSE has said.

At the start of 1992, Margaret Thatcher's successor as British prime minister was widely seen as a bit... boring.

South Africa has begun a week of mourning for the revered anti-apartheid fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Irish diplomats in Washington weren't expecting much from the new US president Bill Clinton when it came to foreign policy. His approach to foreign affairs, Irish ambassador Dermot Gallagher predicted, would be "a cautious blend of idealism and pragm...