British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a statement to the country later today, a Downing Street spokesperson has said, following reports he will resign as Conservative leader.

The Central Bank has warned that inflation could peak in the coming months at over 10% but should start to decline after that.

The Government insists it has a working majority in the Dáil after Donegal TD Joe McHugh resigned the Fine Gael Party whip last night.

Follow all the latest developments and reaction as Boris Johnson's attempt to keep his job comes under further pressure.

The former Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has announced he will be starting a new position as an Adjunct Full Professor at University College Dublin.

An American filmmaker who has spent almost two weeks searching for a custom-made trike that was last seen in Dublin Airport has been told his missing luggage has been found.

The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) has now become a statutory and independent agency entitled the Corporate Enforcement Authority, with additional resources to investigate and prosecute white collar crime.

The organisation which manages Ireland's national debt has said the country's borrowing position remains strong, despite the rising cost of servicing it.

Australia has said it would expand the rollout of the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines from next week as it battles a steady rise in hospital admissions fuelled by the highly transmissible new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was on the Indonesian island of Bali preparing for a G20 gathering that will be his first face-to-face meeting with the fiercest critics of his country's invasion of Ukraine.

Jerry Harris maintained that he is "not an evil person" as he was sentenced to 12 years behind bars for crimes relating to child abuse images and soliciting sex from minors.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided Tánaiste Leo Varadkar will not face prosecution following the investigation surrounding the disclosure of a confidential Government document to a friend over three years ago.

Vacant homes will face a new tax in the next Budget, the Minister for Finance confirmed today.

The man accused of spraying gunfire into a July Fourth parade from a Chicago-area rooftop, turning a holiday celebration into a killing field, is due to make his first court appearance today to face seven first-degree murder charges.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked Ireland for its support amid the Russian invasion as he held talks with the Taoiseach in Kyiv.

Up to 5% of long Covid patients are still 'disabled' a year after catching the virus, an infectious diseases expert has said.

The evacuation of civilians from Sloviansk continued as Russian troops pressed towards the eastern Ukrainian city.

A red-and-white sea of revellers erupted in celebration, dousing each other with wine in a packed Pamplona square as Spain's most famous bull-running festival returned after a two-year absence due to the pandemic.

Ireland's faint hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Hockey World Cup were ended after a 3-0 defeat to Germany at the Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen.