Ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians who are holed up with Ukrainian fighters in the vast Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol.

AIB said it has started exclusive discussions with NatWest for the acquisition of about €6 billion of Ulster Bank's performing tracker mortgages.

First-time buyers are facing less and less choice as the State is buying one in four new houses, according to a senior lecturer in housing.

Failure to address poor governance and oversight arrangements in HSE Disability Services in the northwest could lead to safeguarding issues in the future, according to HIQA.

The Government is proposing a law to give courts the power to tag sex offenders, despite the Irish Prison Service abandoning electronic tagging because of value for money concerns.

As Katie Taylor faces her toughest test in the ring against Amanda Serrano in New York this weekend, Paul O'Flynn traces her journey to greatness and what made her the fighter she is today.

Profiles of each of the 18 constituencies in the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections.

The Stormont Assembly election next week could bring about truly historic political change, writes RTÉ Northern Ireland Editor Vincent Kearney.

The unionist electorate is getting a stark message from the largest unionist party, writes Conor Macauley.

The Northern Ireland Assembly election is less than a week away, and for hundreds of thousands of young people it is a chance to identify the political issues that matter most to them as they consider who will get their vote.

KBC Bank Ireland said it has decided to extend the notice period for the closure of current accounts from 90 days to six months.

Follow the latest developments on day 65 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

South Korea will lift its outdoor mask mandate next week in response to a steady drop in Covid-19 cases after an Omicron-fuelled surge.

Afghanistan's supreme leader has called again for the international community to recognise the Taliban government, saying the world had become a "small village" and proper diplomatic relations would help solve the country's problems.

At least 42 people have been injured during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque - Islam's third-holiest site - the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

The first known human case of H5 bird flu in the United States has appeared in a person in Colorado, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.

As war rages in Ukraine, more than a thousand miles away in Bosnia observers are warning that Russia is fanning the embers of separatism which could spell trouble for the deeply divided Balkan country.

An inquest into the death of a young mother who died a week after she gave birth to her third child at a maternity hospital in Dublin has heard claims there were "many missed opportunities" to diagnose that she had contracted a life-threatening infec...

The St Vincent's Healthcare Group has said it has today completed the legal transfer of the Religious Sisters of Charity's shareholding in the group to a new company, St Vincent's Holdings CLG.

The getaway driver in the "cold-blooded assassination" of convicted criminal Wayne Whelan, who was shot dead before his body was found in a burning car, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.