US President Joe Biden called yesterday's attack on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband "despicable".

Local tensions on housing have been playing out around the country with concerns that the current difficulties could be exploited in an attempt to foment hatred.

Once again the EU is having to weigh up the impact of a new British prime minister on the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations.

Non-bank lender ICS Mortgages has become the first provider to raise rates following this week's ECB 0.75% hike.

Six months on from Katie Taylor's historic triumph over Amanda Serrano, it's back to more quotidian challenges for the Irish superstar against unheralded Argentine Karen Elizabeth Carabajal.

CervicalCheck campaigner Lynsey Bennett has died at the age of 34.

The President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde said she recognised that interest rate increases were a burden for some people.

Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae slammed into the Philippines, after unleashing flash floods and landslides that left at least 72 people dead, officials said.

Several food and drink businesses in Dublin have joined forces with the aim of drastically reducing single-use plastic packaging waste.

Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the centre of the capital Doha where visiting football fans will stay during the World Cup, workers who were evicted from their homes told Reuters.

This weekend the two final candidates in the race to become Brazil's next president, the leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro are going head-to-head in a runoff that is expected to be tight.

The Brazilian Ambassador to Ireland said the decision to move diaspora voting in the presidential run-off to Croke Park was to ease access, especially for those using public transport on Sunday.

The US will next week put the United Nations spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody and look for ways to promote credible, independent investigations into Iranian human rights abuses.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain, his spokesman said.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has confirmed he will be calling an assembly election in Northern Ireland, however he has not set a date.

The Cabinet has signed off on a range of measures to increase the supply of accommodation for refugees.

Jerry Lee Lewis- one of the original rock 'n' rollers from the 1950s - has died at the age of 87.

Tomorrow night's world title fight, for now, will serve merely as another appetiser for what Katie Taylor and her camp still hope someday will be a night for the ages in Dublin.

The number of people in emergency accommodation across the country reached almost 11,000 last month - the highest number ever recorded.

American football player Tom Brady has confirmed his divorce from Brazilian model Gisele Bu¨ndchen.