Japan and Australia have imposed new sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine, which the West says has been stalled by staunch resistance but continues to take a devastating toll on civilians.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney is visiting Warsaw to meet his Polish counterpart Minister Zbigniew Rau and to speak to humanitarian organisations assisting those fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Services were suspended and a series of demonstrations were expected to take place against P&O's "appalling" decision to sack 800 employees.

Moderna has sought emergency use authorisation from US health regulators for a second Covid-19 booster shot, as a surge in cases in some parts of the world fuels fears of another wave of the pandemic.

Britain's media regulator said today it has revoked Russian-backed television channel RT's licence to broadcast in the UK with immediate effect after a probe into the impartiality of its coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Live updates as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine with bombardments of key cities.

China sailed its aircraft carrier Shandong through the sensitive Taiwan Strait today, shadowed by a US destroyer, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, just hours before the Chinese and US presidents were due to talk.

US President Joe Biden has said that Ireland has "taken a hit" for stepping up to help those who are in need as a result of the war in Ukraine.

150 new jobs are to be created by Irish fitness business management software company Glofox.

Around 400,000 people are attending St Patrick's Day festivities in Dublin today.

A Castlerea bus driver, his daughter and a team of volunteers have spent their St Patrick's Day making the final leg of their trip to Zamosc in Poland, near the Ukrainian border.

P&O Ferries, which sails major routes including between Britain and Ireland and Britain and France, has said 800 employees have been given "immediate severance notices", and it would be unable to operate services for the next few days.

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.

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.

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.

Read how it all unfolded on a day when Allaho and Flooring Porter succesfully defended their Ryanair Chase and Stayers' Hurdle crowns.

Russian forces in Ukraine are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress on the ground, Western countries have said, as a war Russia was thought to have hoped to win within days entered its fourth week.

The Irish RM and To The Manor Born star Peter Bowles has died from cancer at the age of 85.