Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has urged people not to hold household gatherings tonight to celebrate New Year's Eve amid concern over high levels of Covid-19 transmission.

A man has died in a crash in Dublin city, when the motorcycle he was driving was in collision with a car last night.

Hundreds of homes are feared lost in fast-moving wildfires in the US state of Colorado, with flames tearing through areas desiccated by a historic drought.

The Health and Safety Authority has reported a 30% reduction in work-related fatalities for 2021.

A man in his 20s has died in a collision between two cars in Co Donegal.

While 2020 was a year when tech's greatest strengths were on display, it was its weaknesses that came to the fore in 2021, writes Adam Maguire.

The Department of Health has been notified of a record 20,554 new cases of Covid-19.

There is a hope in Government that schools will return after the Christmas holidays but as ever, Covid-19 does not neatly lend itself to providing certainty.

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.

A critic of Jeffrey Donaldson took to Twitter shortly after he was elected DUP leader and likened him to Oliver Twist, the character in the Charles Dickens classic.

Liverpool Women's Hospital bomber Emad Al Swealmeen died from the explosion and fire caused by the improvised device he manufactured with "murderous intent", a coroner has ruled.

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

The family of a man shot dead by an armed garda last year has repeated their calls for a public inquiry into the death.

IKEA has increased the average price of products in its Irish stores by over 11% due to rising supply chain costs - more than the global average increase of 9%.

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.

Temporary hospitals are to be built in England to deal with a potential overspill of in-patients, as surging Covid-19 cases put the country's health service on what officials described as a "war footing".

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.

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.

2021 began with what would become one of the biggest stories of the year in the United States.