Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has criticised the Taoiseach and Tánaiste for trying to maintain Robert Troy's position in Government, saying that the former Minister of State's resignation was inevitable.

As schools begin to reopen around the country, thousands of families who use the School Transport Scheme are still waiting to hear if their children will have been allocated a ticket for the school bus.

New recommendations have been accepted in relation to the way the monkeypox vaccine is to be administered which could mean a five-fold increase in available doses.

People over 50 can now book a second Covid-19 booster vaccine.

A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has now spread out across half of China and has reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau, according to official data released ahead of more searing temperatures.

Aid agencies are calling on the international community to do more as thousands of Rohingya refugees mark five years since they fled their homes in Myanmar, writes Eleanor Burnhill.

A Dublin taxi driver has been accused of raping a young woman passenger in the back of his car.

The school board in Uvalde has fired the school district's embattled police chief for his much-criticised handling of the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in the Texas city three months ago.

Ireland's church leaders have called for more Government support for people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

Ghislaine Maxwell has failed to pay some $878,000 in fees to two lawyers who defended her against criminal charges, the lawyers' firm said in a new lawsuit.

A jury has ordered Los Angeles County to pay $31m in damages to Kobe Bryant's widow and a co-plaintiff over graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star.

US attack helicopters have struck several targets used by Iran-backed militants to fire rockets at bases housing American troops in northeastern Syria, the US military's Central Command said.

North Korea's state media has reported four new fever cases, saying they were suspected of being infected with the "malignant epidemic" - just two weeks after the country declared victory over Covid-19.

At least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as his nation marked the anniversary of its independence from Soviet rule.

A burglar has been named as the intended target of the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications has said the Government "will be able to keep the lights on" over the coming months.

For more than half of her life, Anastasiia Horiacha has played the piano and until recently taught piano to children and adults in her native Kyiv.

The Office of the Planning Regulator has started a review of An Bord Pleanála, citing "the urgent need to progress measures aimed at restoring public confidence."

US President Joe Biden will forgive student loan debt for many borrowers and will extend a pause on student loan repayments until the end of this year. His administration will forgive $20,000 in debt for those who went to college on Pell Grants, and ...

Perhaps one of the best ways to try to understand the Vladimir Putin of 2022 is to look back at how he got here, writes Fiona Mitchell.