It is expected that the National Public Health Emergency Team will make a wide range of recommendations on the easing of restrictions when it meets on Thursday.

The funeral mass for 23-year-old school teacher Ashling Murphy will take place in Co Offaly this morning.

The Irish balance sheets of large systemically important banks with international operations run from Ireland have grown by as much as €200bn since the UK voted to leave the EU six years ago, a new study has found.

Australia has suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic as a fast-moving Omicron outbreak continued to push up hospitalisation rates to record levels, even as daily infections eased slightly.

The number of residential property transactions increased by almost 19% to 44,110 in the 12 months to October 2021, according to the latest Residential Buildings Report published by GeoDirectory and EY.

Aid agencies have reported "extensive damage" in the Pacific island nation of Tonga following a massive underwater volcanic blast and tsunami, as the first death from the disaster was confirmed.

A claim by a former senior adviser to Boris Johnson that the British Prime Minister lied to parliament about not knowing about a lockdown party in Downing Street is nonsense, his deputy has said.

Teenage girls are less likely to cycle to school due to challenges that go "above and beyond poor infrastructure", an Oireachtas committee will hear.

Indonesia's parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation's capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of Kalimantan on Borneo island, the planning minister has said.

The General Secretary of the ASTI has said there would be "a number of problems" associated with a hybrid Leaving Cert model this year.

A 41-year-old Cork man has been jailed for seven years for raping his youngest sister over a three year period in the 1990s.

The Attorney General has advised that there is no basis to publish the full report into the sexual abuse of intellectually disabled residents at a HSE-run facility.

Ireland's nine billionaires have increased their wealth by €18.3 billion or 58% to €49.7 billion since the start of the pandemic, according to a new Oxfam report.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney may be called before an Oireachtas cross-party committee to answer questions over the June 2020 gathering at his department amid growing political concerns over the issue.

Tonga has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world after a massive volcanic eruption that crippled communications with the Pacific island nation, and experts warned internet connection may not be fully restored for weeks.

Businessman Jim Mansfield Junior has been found guilty at the Special Criminal Court of attempting to pervert the course of justice by directing that CCTV footage be destroyed.

The number of Covid-19 cases in China has reached its highest since March 2020, as Beijing races to stamp out the highly transmissible coronavirus variant just three weeks before hosting the Winter Olympics.

At least 26 people were killed after an earthquake hit western Afghanistan on Monday, an official said.

More than four out of every five builders across the country expect the prices they charge for projects will rise in the first three months of the year when compared to the same period last year, a new survey of the industry has revealed.