World leaders have paid tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who passed away in Moscow aged 91.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth and the last Soviet leader and was affectionately known outside Russia as Gorby.

Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in some of the region's richest countries.

Gardaí have reported a 30% increase in accommodation fraud in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels and warned students to be wary of rental scams on the return to college.

An independent assessment has described the Government's overall environmental performance last year as a "mixed bag", highlighting a "gap between ambition and action" and a "slow pace of implementation".

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans.

Over 100 primary and secondary school students from Ukraine who are living in a holiday village in Wexford are being left behind by the school transport scheme this week as schools return from the summer break.

The Taliban have declared today a national holiday and decorated the capital with coloured lights to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan.

The competition watchdog has said it is concerned by the impending increase in the concentration levels of the retail banking sector in Ireland as a result of the exits of KBC and Ulster Bank.

The Minister for Further and Higher Education has set a target of a fourfold increase in Traveller participation in higher education.

NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an official has said.

The Government faces a "delicate balancing act" in September's Budget, according to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.

Journalists at Reach newspapers and websites are striking today after talks to resolve a pay dispute broke down.

The couple who died in a multi-vehicle collision on the N28 Cork to Ringaskiddy road yesterday have been named locally as 83-year-old Pat Allen and his 82-year-old wife Berna (Bernadette) Allen.

A man and a woman have died following a multi-vehicle collision on the main N28 Cork to Ringaskiddy road.

A secondary school has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a teacher who opposes addressing a student with the pronoun "they" from either attending at its premises or from teaching any classes at the school while he remains suspended...

A ticket that let people use local public transit across Germany for only €9 a month prevented some 1.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the three months it was available.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said a pay deal offered to public sector workers is a fair one and that he hopes it will be accepted by union members.