The State is to provide free schoolbooks to all primary school children from next September, under an initiative to be announced as part of tomorrow's Budget.

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has said she was ready to govern for "all Italians" after her eurosceptic populists swept to victory in general elections, putting her on course to guide Italy's most right-wing government since World War II.

Ukraine has discovered two more mass burial sites containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the northeastern town of Izium, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Sterling tumbled to a record low this morning as traders scampered for the exits on speculation the new government's economic plan will stretch Britain's finances to the limit.

At least six people have died and some 20 were injured after shots were fired at a school in the city of Izhevsk in central Russia, the country's interior ministry has said.

The rising cost-of-living and increased energy bills are adding more financial strain and worry to people with disabilities, and disability groups are calling on the Government to increase their allowance in the Budget.

Budget discussions continued into the early hours of this morning as the coalition leaders and the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure met to finalise measures ahead of tomorrow's announcement.

Ambassadors of European Union member states have been invited to a meeting of the bloc's crisis response working group to discuss concerns about an escalation of the war in Ukraine, an EU official and an EU diplomat said.

Asking prices for homes across the country were largely unchanged during the third quarter of the year compared to the previous three months, new data from listings website, Daft.ie, suggests.

Pizza giant Domino's is to recruit 1,000 new staff over the coming months.

Royal London Ireland is to begin offering pension products here in a move that will increase competition in the market.

Research has found that the State is perpetuating educational inequality by the approach it has taken to the creation of new schools.

It will take several months for Canada to restore critical infrastructure after the powerful Storm Fiona left an "unprecedented" trail of destruction, officials said today.

The Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss has been told that 85% of the habitats protected under EU nature laws in Ireland are in an unfavourable status.

A new education programme has been launched to shine a spotlight on the role of women in the Northern Ireland peace process.

Sanita Puspure and Zoe Hyde have won bronze in the women's double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

The United Arab Emirates has agreed an "energy security" agreement with Germany to supply liquefied natural gas and diesel as Berlin searches for new power sources to replace Russian supplies.

A super typhoon slammed into the Philippines, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that are expected to cause flooding and destroy crops, authorities said.

Russia has sought to defend its seven-month-old war at the United Nations, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that regions of Ukraine where widely derided referendums are being held would be under Russia's "full protection" if annexed by Mosc...

Irish household amassed a significant nest egg over the course of the pandemic, but options for how best to take advantage of that are limited, writes Adam Maguire.