Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney is visiting the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, the first visit by any foreign minister on the UN Security Council since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began.

Detectives are due to resume questioning a suspect in connection with two murders in Sligo later this morning.

Russia has said the flagship of its Black Sea fleet was seriously damaged and its crew evacuated following an explosion that an Ukrainian official said was the result of a missile strike.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has initiated an independent review of the now abandoned secondment of the Chief Medical Officer to Trinity College.

Many refugees have questions about how to access jobs, health benefits, transport and about how to travel to the EU and/or visit Ukraine. Here are some answers.

Early estimates of carbon emissions for 2021 indicate that Ireland is already off target on its 2030 climate goals, explains Oonagh Smyth.

Hong Kong has confirmed it will ease some of the world's most stringent Covid-19 restrictions, allowing beauty salons, cinemas and gyms to reopen from 21 April as infections in the global financial hub hover below 2,000 per day.

Live updates from the 50th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Asylum seekers in the UK will be flown for processing in Rwanda under government plans expected to be announced as ministers face pressure to tackle small boat crossings of the Channel.

€100m is to be invested by Boston Scientific in its campus in Galway, in a move that is expected to enable up to 300 jobs to be created.

Cuba Gooding Jr has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour count of forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018, as part of an agreement with prosecutors that spares the Oscar-winning actor any immediate jail time.

As the world's attention is focused on Ukraine and the ripple effects of the war, the international community is urged not to forget other countries like Yemen, where millions of people face starvation.

A teenager has been killed in a road crash in Co Kilkenny.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar told party colleagues this evening that a move to ban the commercial sale of turf from September will be paused due to a lack of detail on the plan.

Gardai in Sligo are following a definite line of inquiry into the murders of Michael Snee and Aidan Moffitt, as well as a third non-fatal attack that took place in the town on Saturday night.

A woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a woman in her 80s was discovered in Dublin.

Almost all Ukrainian refugees arriving in Ireland are to be offered dormitory-style accommodation.

Evan Somers, who was injured in a suspected homophobic attack near Dame Street in Dublin city centre early on Sunday morning, has spoken publicly of his ordeal.

The Kremlin has said that it categorically disagreed with US President Joe Biden's description of Russia's actions in Ukraine as 'genocide'.

It is understood that Spanish police are investigating the death of an Irish man on the Costa del Sol.