Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the UK and the EU can still agree a way forward to fix some of the issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol and said the majority of MLAs want to see the protocol work.

Finland has said it intends to apply to join NATO without delay, with Sweden likely to follow suit, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine reshapes European security and the Atlantic military alliance.

The Health Service Executive has confirmed that a child who was being treated for an acute form of hepatitis, has died.

Market rents in the first three months of the year were almost 12% higher than they were in the same period last year, according to the latest report from property website daft.ie.

Use of the five letter word "early" caused a slight ripple this week for those who read the tea leaves on the utterances of central bankers.

Ireland's Eurovision Song Contest hopeful Brooke Scullion says she is bracing herself for the voting in tonight's second semi-final but is doing her best to focus on nailing her song at the PalaOlimpico in Turin.

California's ban on the sale of semi-automatic weapons to adults under the age of 21 violates the country's constitution, a US federal appeals court has ruled.

Ukraine's national team were able to briefly turn their focus back to football on Wednesday night when they beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2-1 in a friendly.

A US government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at 53 of them, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has said.

The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it.

Follow the latest developments on day 78 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for nationwide lockdowns after the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed, state media said.

President Michael D Higgins begins a State visit to Malta, the first such visit to the Mediterranean island by an Irish head of State since 2006.

The Cabinet Sub-Committee overseeing the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine will meet later today.

Fishers who agree to stop fishing for two months will be paid to keep their vessels tied up in port under a scheme announced by the Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine.

US Congressman Richard Neal has said politicians in Northern Ireland must carry out their democratic duty through the power-sharing institutions.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and three others who helped run a now-disbanded Hong Kong fund for protesters were arrested on charges of "collusion with foreign forces," and later released on bail.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 52-year-old woman in Dublin have said that she could have been dead for some time before her body was discovered.

A Fine Gael TD has said that a man's decision to send her sexually explicit videos meant she got an "awful fright" and had a "cold sense of dread" amid concerns for her safety during the 2020 election campaign.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has said he does not know if the British government is interested in working in partnership to resolve political difficulties in Northern Ireland.