Airport operator daa has said this morning's departures at Dublin Airport are running "very efficiently" at what is the start of a busy bank holiday weekend of air travel.

US President Joe Biden has made a televised address to the nation, calling on members of congress to take immediate action on gun control.

After 100 days of war, Ukraine is fighting for time, trying to hold out against overwhelming Russian fire on its eastern front long enough for Western weapons to arrive and give it a badly needed edge.

The search for a missing walker on the MacGillycuddy Reeks in Co Kerry has resumed.

A 14-year-old girl from San Antonio, Texas, has won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee after a first-ever "spell-off" was required for a champion to emerge in the extremely close competition.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and wants to cut about 10% of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters.

A rapidly dwindling supply of homes to rent in Ireland has left tenants facing huge rent increases, with many struggling to find somewhere to live, Louise Byrne explains.

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration has said she will be advocating for her country's accession to the EU at a conference in Dublin.

Students from around the country will take part in a debate on climate action in the Seanad.

Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called "Trkiye" in all languages, the UN has said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signed a Can$1.3 billion (€962m) deal - one of the largest of its kind - to settle a Blackfoot tribe's century-old land claim.

Queen Elizabeth II will no longer attend the Service of Thanksgiving for her seven decades as monarch, after experiencing some discomfort when she appeared at a military parade today, Buckingham Palace has said.

Four men have been sentenced to jail for terms of up to 19 years for the rape of a 17-year-old girl in 2016.

New York will play their first intercounty match on Irish soil since 2001 this weekend when they face Offaly in the Tailteann Cup on Saturday.

Gardaí and the Road Safety Authority have urged motorists to slow down ahead of this bank holiday weekend, with one motorist in Dublin today detected traveling at 140km/h in an 80km/h zone.

A New York appeals court has upheld Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault conviction, rejecting the disgraced movie producer's arguments that the trial judge made several errors that tainted the trial.

In an apartment in Ballsbridge in Dublin, Oksana Mykhailenko is packing up her life into a small suitcase. It is the second time in four months.

Minster for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said Ireland, the US and the EU are at a "high point" of economic co-operation, particularly over the issue of corporation tax.

A gunman who fatally shot five people including himself at a medical building in the US after buying an assault-style rifle the same day had gone there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, authorities said.

Dublin Airport has installed the outdoor rain covers outside Terminal 1 ahead of some elements of airport management's contingency plans to manage large passenger numbers being trialled this weekend.