The Taoiseach has said there has to be greater transparency around the planned academic role for outgoing Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan at Trinity College.

Developments in Ukraine and live updates from around the world on day 44 of the war

More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the situation in the town of Borodyanka was "significantly more dreadful" than in nearby Bucha, where Russian forces' suspected killing of civilians has been broadly condemned.

A group of Ukrainian refugees are huddled around a temporary information stand in Košice train station. There is a sense of urgency and their faces reveal flashes of mild panic.

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station is set to blast off today with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

Sungjae Im holds a one-shot lead after a five-under-par 67 in the first round of the Masters, with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry on one-over.

A group set up by the Minister for Agriculture to produce a plan to stabilise and then reduce emissions from the dairy sector has produced a draft interim report with 17 recommendations.

Shanghai announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of Covid testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and Chinese cities tightened curbs - even in places with no recent infections.

Israeli police said they had shot dead a Palestinian gunman who had killed two people and wounded several others in Tel Aviv, the latest in a surge of violence.

Hundreds more Sydney residents have been ordered to leave their homes, some for the second time in a month, as rivers burst their banks even as an intense weather system that dumped more than a month's rainfall over a few hours began to ease.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is visiting Finland and later today will be in Estonia.

One third of hybrid workers struggle to disconnect and one quarter feel demotivated or uninspired, according to new research from Microsoft Ireland.

The United States made history today as the Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black woman ever to serve on the country's Supreme Court.

Inflation is impacting all walks of life and for parents at a toddler group at Huckleberry's Den in Navan, Co Meath, the rise in prices is something they are feeling every day.

Two diplomats have been asked to leave the Irish Embassy in Moscow, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Four young men have been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of a range of sexual offences against a 17-year-old girl in the midlands in December 2016. A fifth man had earlier pleaded guilty to rape.

Vivienne Traynor looks back at the young woman's testimony to the trial.

The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia from its Human Rights Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" by invading Russian troops in Ukraine.

The burning of smoky coal in Low Smoke Zones has been prohibited since 2012. But the fossil fuel is still being sold to people in these areas, explains Kieran Dineen.