Counting is under way in Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly election.

Follow all the latest developments with counting under way in Northern Ireland's Stormont Assembly election.

Senior civil servants are calling on the Government to put measures in place to protect their privacy after recordings of conversations were leaked to the media.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticised European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen for "attacking" EU unity with a proposed Russian oil ban, saying it crosses a red line.

Ireland has been ranked among the worst countries in Europe for paid maternity leave, according to a new study.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney predicts a "long and tense count" in Northern Ireland.

Symbolically, a nationalist First Minister would be seismic. As much a historic political breakthrough for nationalists as a political and psychological setback for unionism.

There are more than 1,000 staff involved in the counting in Belfast, Jordanstown and Magherafelt today. Here are the key points to watch out for when results come in.

The challenges and opportunities for rural Ireland will be examined at a conference in Athlone today.

A teenager has died after the tractor he was driving crashed in Co Offaly last night.

Peat briquettes could be included in a ban on smoky fuels from next September if they are found to produce excess pollution, the Minister for the Environment has indicated in the Dáil.

Counting is under way in the Northern Ireland Assembly election and RTÉ will have comprehensive coverage of the results today and throughout the weekend across all channels.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a backlash from local Tory leaders as his party lost major London authorities to Labour and suffered setbacks across England.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Almost 500 civilians have been evacuated from the battered city of Mariupol and its besieged Azovstal steel plant since a UN-led rescue operation began, the head of Ukraine's presidential office has said.

Residents of Beijing fretted over anti-virus restrictions curbing their movement while also worrying about the dozens of new Covid-19 cases reported daily, as China's leaders threatened action against critics of their zero-tolerance Covid policy.

The High Court has approved an undisclosed settlement for the family of a woman who died after falling out of bed while breastfeeding her newborn baby, who also died in the incident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for remarks made by his foreign minister who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had "Jewish blood".

Polling stations across Northern Ireland have closed following a day of voting in the Stormont Assembly elections.

The International Monetary Fund has said growth in the Irish economy is expected to "remain strong" but it warned that risks are "tilted to the downside".