The funerals will take place later today of the last two victims of the Creeslough explosion.

Minster for Finance Paschal Donohoe said economic co-operation between Ireland, the European Union and the United States is at a new high point.

UK's new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said today that the Liz Truss administration had made "mistakes" as he promised "difficult decisions ahead".

Ireland is in a very different place now with Covid-19 and this winter should be very different to what we experienced in recent years, writes Fergal Bowers.

Forty people have been killed at a coal mine in northern Turkey killed where dozens were trapped hundreds of metres underground.

It has been a long and contentious journey, pock-marked with delays and disagreements but the data-sharing element could unlock some of the most intractable problems around the Protocol

Some of the country's youngest citizens have begun discussing how to protect and restore biodiversity in Ireland.

A recent episode has highlighted the sort of pressure that the system is now under and raises questions about the State's ability to cope with what it is now acknowledged will be a longer-term humanitarian crisis.

The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida.

Hallowe'en is fast approaching, and as the supermarket bays, pop-up shops and horror-fest films tell us, it's become big business, writes Adam Maguire.

North Korea warned that it would take "overwhelming military counter measures" against what it called deliberate provocations by South Korea, as tensions remained high following the North's ballistic missile launches in recent weeks.

Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin has said, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and huge numbers flee the country.

A 29-year-old autistic man admits killing his mother "without any lawful justification" by inflicting five fatal blows to her head with a hatchet whilst she lay in her bed, a murder trial jury has heard.

A fog of grief has descended upon a community of some 400 people living between Muckish Mountain and the sea in Co Donegal.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor and scrapped parts of their economic package in a bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.

Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke has told an Appeal Court judge that setting a date in next February for his appeal is an "insult to the rule of law" and that the judge "shouldn't be in the chair".

Mourners at the funeral of 59-year-old Hugh Kelly in Creeslough, Co Donegal, were told he was a man "who enjoyed a good time, a happy man with a cheeky grin, a man who the family knew and loved so well."

Two brothers who pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of a prominent journalist in Malta have each been sentenced to 40 years in prison, the first day of their trial.

Harry Potter and Cracker actor Robbie Coltrane has died aged 72, his agent has said.

AIB is to increase the interest rate it charges for new fixed rate mortgages by 0.5%.