A report on defective apartments built during the boom years will not recommend a levy on the construction sector to help the State meet the bill for repairs.

The Government is moving closer to agreement on the size of carbon emission reduction targets for the agriculture sector.

The Chief Executive of the Policing Authority has said the case of Paul Moody will be on the agenda at a meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris later today.

A slowdown may already be under way in certain sectors of the domestic economy, according to Ibec.

A murder investigation is under way after a man died in hospital following an incident in Co Louth earlier this month.

Humankind marks a dubious milestone today, the day by which humanity has consumed all Earth can sustainably produce for this year, with NGOs warning the rest of 2022 will be lived in resource deficit.

Ukraine's counter-offensive is gathering momentum in the Russian-controlled southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Britain's defence ministry has said.

Children's TV star and entertainer Bernard Cribbins has died aged 93, his agent said.

At least a dozen schools across New Zealand received bomb threats, causing widespread disruption in what is believed to have been an overseas cyberattack.

A possible trade war with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol will be one of the dangers facing the new British prime minister, according to a new report on the Conservative leadership contest.

Australia has said that the spread of monkeypox was now a "communicable disease incident of national significance" to allow for a more coordinated response,following the World Health Organization's declaration of a global health emergency.

A new bill to protect whistleblowers has been signed into law by President Michael D Higgins.

Remnants of a large, newly launched Chinese rocket are expected to streak back through the atmosphere this weekend in an uncontrolled re-entry the Beijing government said would be closely tracked but poses little risk to anyone on the ground.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country was "ready to mobilise" its nuclear deterrent in any future military clash with the United States and South Korea, state media has said.

The Department of Health has said that Covid-19 will be managed in a similar manner to other infectious diseases, primarily as a clinical decision at GP care level, but underpinned by a robust surveillance system.

She should have awoken to the sound of popping champagne corks on her wedding day, but Tetyana was instead startled out of bed by Russian rocket fire near her home in central Ukraine.

A 21-year-old man accused of shooting into a crowd watching a Chicago-area Independence Day parade was indicted by a grand jury on 117 counts, including 21 counts of first-degree murder, the state's attorney's office has said.

The woman who survived a campaign of torture and terror by former garda Paul Moody says she cannot understand how some people continued to support him when they knew what was going on.

The Workplace Relations Commission has invited Government representatives and unions to resume public sector pay talks next month.

Several communities across the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area are among those with the highest rates of 5-11 year-olds who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, while a number of areas in Donegal are among the lowest, according to latest data from the...