Ghislaine Maxwell's family said they have commenced the appeal process after the British socialite was convicted of luring young girls to massage rooms for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest.

Accusers of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have said "others must be held accountable" after she was convicted of sex-trafficking young girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.

Declassified documents from 10 Downing Street made public today provide lots of detail on how the British state reacted to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

"Of all the people that I talk to in this whole damn thing, I feel that we are on the same wavelength now...". Quite the tribute, from Tony Blair to Bertie Ahern, as the two men were in the final stretch of negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.

2021 was a year of chopping and changing for the hospitality sector. While most businesses were shut for the first six months of the year, the other half was spent trying to come to grips with ever-changing Covid-19 restrictions and guidelines.

An assistant garda commissioner has said a review into the IRA killing of a garda and a soldier during the rescue of the kidnapped businessman Don Tidey in 1983 will "prove beyond doubt" that claims they were shot dead by garda or army weapons are to...

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.

Indian authorities started to impose stringent rules today to prevent mass gatherings at parties and public venues ahead of New Year celebrations as the nation sees a spike in Covid-19 infections.

Two senior editors of Hong Kong media outlet Stand News were charged with "conspiracy to publish seditious" material today, authorities said, following a raid that drew international condemnation over China's crackdown on press freedom in the city.

The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was carried this morning into a historic cathedral where he once railed against white rule, to allow South Africans to bid farewell before the weekend funeral.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 16,428 new cases of Covid-19, while the number of people hospitalised with the virus has risen for the fourth consecutive day, up 47 since yesterday, to 568.

Australia's former parliament building caught fire during an Aboriginal rights protest today, officials said, causing limited damage.

Just two weeks before the Omagh bombing, taoiseach Bertie Ahern assured British prime minister Tony Blair that Irish security were "keeping a handle" on dissident republicans.

A Covid variant-driven "tsunami" threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO has said as AFP data showed cases have surged across the world in the past week to levels never seen before.

Reaching an all-party agreement on Good Friday 1998 was an historic achievement; but implementing the document was to prove incredibly difficult, with progress threatened by unionist intransigence, Sinn Féin pandering to its republican base, and ten...

Irish officials in London were concerned about a whispering campaign to undermine Mo Mowlam in her early months as secretary of state for Northern Ireland.

The final chaotic scramble to get the Good Friday Agreement over the line is revealed in newly released State Papers, which detail the close contact between Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair.

People aged between 30 and 39 who have completed their primary Covid-19 vaccination course are eligible to register for their booster vaccine from today.

More than 200 organ transplants were carried out in Ireland in 2021, the HSE has confirmed.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty by a US jury of helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.