Northern Ireland has more people who are Catholic than Protestant for the first time in its 101-year history, census results have shown.

Pressure ratcheted up on President Vladimir Putin as his decision to send reservists to Ukraine triggered spreading protests and hundreds of arrests at home.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the United Nations meeting in New York that Ukraine wanted "just punishment" for crimes Russia has committed against his nation.

It is possible, but not certain, that Ireland will face a "twindemic" of Covid-19 and flu this winter, according to the HSE's Chief Clinical Officer.

Iranian authorities and a Kurdish rights group have reported rising death tolls, as anger at the death of a woman detained by the morality police fuelled protests for a fifth day and fresh restrictions have been placed on social media.

About 200 pilot whales have perished after stranding themselves on an exposed, surf-swept beach on the rugged west coast of Tasmania, Australian rescuers said.

Student representatives at UCD have said the student accommodation crisis is now an "emergency", that the system has reached breaking point, but that the Government is not treating it with the attention and concern it requires.

The Irish Cancer Society has said it has seen a 60% increase in the number of people applying for its children's fund.

Ireland is to make a large contribution to a UN fund to combat malnutrition among children.

President Vladimir Putin this week ordered Russia's first mobilisation since World War II after suffering a major battlefield reversal in Ukraine, an attempt to turn the military tide in what he has cast as a defining East-West clash.

North Korea has denied it was providing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by invading Ukraine.

The Oireachtas Gender Equality Committee will today discuss pay and workplace conditions with representatives from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

Some Fianna Fáil politicians from Dublin have voiced dissatisfaction with the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee over what was described as a failure to tackle lawlessness in the city.

An outbreak of bird flu which has seen hundreds of dead seabirds washed ashore is now threatening the gannet colony on Sceilg Bheag off the Kerry coast.

A woman arrested as part of the garda investigation into the deaths of two children in a car fire in Co Westmeath remains in garda custody.

Donald Trump and his adult children are being sued for fraud by New York state's attorney general, who for more than three years has conducted a civil investigation into the former US president's business practices, court records showed.

The Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl declared that "history" had been made in the Dáil tonight, when deputy Violet-Anne Wynne brought her new child into the chamber.

A North Carolina judge set a date for the retrial of Molly and Tom Martens in the death of Jason Corbett, a Limerick businessman who was killed in August 2015.

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said that people will not be deprived of the basic comforts of heat and warmth this winter.