Taoiseach Micheál Martin has tested positive for Covid-19 while in Washington for St Patrick's Day celebrations.

International outrage over Russia's invasion of Ukraine is growing as US and Ukrainian officials said civilians waiting in line for bread and sheltering in a theatre had been killed by Russian forces.

Celebrations are taking place around the country today to mark St Patrick's Day, the first day the event has been celebrated in public since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Follow the latest developments on the 22nd day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

An 18-year-old Ukrainian refugee who has recently arrived in Dublin has delivered a St Patrick's Day message of peace to the world.

Follow our live blog as St Patrick's Day celebrations take place at home and abroad.

Three new city centre hubs to support Ukrainian nationals have been established in Ireland.

British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her loved ones in the early hours of this morning after years of a "long and cruel separation" caused by her detention in Iran.

South Korea has reported a record of more than 600,000 coronavirus cases, with authorities saying the country was near the peak of an Omicron-fuelled infection wave.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and told him that the Irish people stand fully behind his country.

Russian bombs continued to rain down on Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian official said, despite talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv in peace talks after three weeks of war.

Russian forces dropped a powerful bomb on a theatre in the encircled Ukrainian port city of Mariupol where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, Ukraine's foreign ministry said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there is concern about the increase in Covid-19 cases as the Department of Health reported 5,452 PCR-confirmed cases and 8,644 positive antigen tests were recorded through the HSE portal.

The jury in the trial of a former secondary school principal accused of theft and false accounting in relation to the canteen at Roscommon Community College, has found him not guilty of all charges.

The ESB is to decommission the Derrybrien Wind Farm in south Co Galway.

The brothers of Irish man Pierre Zakrzewski, who was killed in Ukraine, have said the family is on a rollercoaster and memories of the cameraman have been flooding in from relatives and friends since news of his death filtered out.

Figures showing a global rise in Covid-19 cases could herald a much bigger problem as some countries also report a drop in testing rates, the WHO has said.

The Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE said 37% of patients in ICU have not completed their primary course of vaccination.

The Catholic Primate of Ireland and the leader of the Church of Ireland have called on the British government to do more to help Ukrainian refugees.