The Tipperary GAA community is in mourning after the death of Dillon Quirke after he collapsed whilst playing for his club Clonoulty/Rossmore in a hurling championship match at Semple Stadium on Friday evening.

Israel hit Gaza with air strikes and a Palestinian militant group retaliated with a barrage of rocket fire, in the territory's worst escalation of violence since a war last year.

The head of Amnesty International's Ukrainian office is leaving the human rights group after it accused Ukraine's armed forces of endangering civilians by basing troops in residential areas.

Two men remain in garda custody following the seizure of cocaine worth €8.4 million which was flown into Co Longford on a private plane yesterday.

The family of Archie Battersbee have been told his life support is due to be withdrawn this morning after their legal fight to move him from hospital to a hospice came to an end.

With many parts of the country expecting another dry, sunny spell, environmental organisations are reminding people to protect and care for Ireland's waterways, coastline and marine life.

"Humanity is playing with a loaded gun" as crises with the potential for nuclear disaster proliferate worldwide, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said in Hiroshima, Japan.

A four-year-old girl has died after an incident at a caravan park in Co Sligo this afternoon.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of "irresponsible steps" by halting key communication channels with Washington, and said its Taiwan actions showed a move from prioritising peaceful resolution towards use of force.

Elon Musk has said that if Twitter could provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how it confirmed these accounts are real, his $44 billion deal to buy the company should proceed on its original terms.

The American actress Anne Heche has been hospitalised in critical condition after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home, US media has reported.

US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages - on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded - for falsely claiming the shooting w...

A community in Roscommon is in shock following the deaths of a brother and sister in a drowning tragedy in Ballybunion, Co Kerry.

A man has died in hospital six weeks after he was shot outside a Dublin hotel.

Several white-tailed sea eagle chicks took flight today as the National Parks and Wildlife Service released them back into the wild.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has vowed to clamp down on "unfair protests" after a small group of climate activists disrupted her speech at a Tory leadership hustings in East Sussex.

A senior militant from Islamic Jihad was among more than 15 people killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, prompting the militant group to warn Israel has made a "declaration of war".

Authorities in the French Alps said they have closed down two popular mountain shelters used by Mont Blanc climbers because of potentially deadly drought-related rockfalls.

Gardaí believe that the Kinahan organised crime group is involved in a smuggling operation that saw the seizure of cocaine worth €8.4 million, which was flown into Co Longford on a private plane.