Ukraine's defence lines were holding against the Russian attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in his latest video, adding there had been no respite in Moscow's shelling of Ukraine since midnight.

Coverage of all today's developments in Ukraine where the Russian invasion is in its eighth day.

More than one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded last week, according to the United Nation's refugee agency.

Countries have agreed to negotiate a new legally-binding treaty to end plastic pollution in a move hailed by environmental campaigners.

Census 2022 will be launched by the Taoiseach and representatives of the Central Statistics Office this morning.

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be banned from the Beijing Winter Paralympics after the International Paralympic Committee reversed its original decision.

"We can't believe or understand what is going on. It's like a reality but not a reality."

The congressional committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 have said former president Donald Trump may have engaged in criminal conduct in his bid to overturn his election defeat.

Authorities in Sweden are seeking to extradite three men who were arrested in Ireland after 50 kilogrammes of cocaine was dropped off at an airfield in Britain.

A man in his 70s has died following a three-vehicle collision in Co Kerry.

A Cabinet sub-committee is to meet to co-ordinate a humanitarian response to what the Taoiseach has termed the "barbaric attack on the Ukrainian people".

Labour Party TDs Ivana Bacik and Duncan Smith have been named as potential contenders to replace Alan Kelly as party leader.

Australia's emergency services ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that lurched towards Sydney after killing 13 people in more than a week of record-setting floods along the east coast.

Children of parents in Ireland who are both non-native English speakers have lower mean reading scores at 9-years-old, compared to children with at least one native English-speaking parent.

A Ukrainian woman living in Ireland has described her relief at being reunited with her pregnant daughter and her eight-year-old son after they fled their home in Ukraine.

Broadcaster Eoghan McDermott has posted a solicitor's letter on Twitter clarifying "false allegations" that were published about him on the social media platform last year.

Alan Kelly has announced that he is resigning as Labour leader after less than two years in the role, saying the parliamentary party had lost collective confidence in his leadership.

Alan Kelly's career has been defined by an abrasive swagger and the ability to surprise and shock.

Sitting on a temporary bed set up along a gloomy underground passageway, expectant mother Alena Shinkar reads a book to try to stay calm.

Roman Abramovich has confirmed his decision to sell Chelsea amid Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine.