Toll charges on most toll roads around the country are to increase to their "maximum level" from 1 January 2023.

Fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks that have crippled Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is currently in Washington DC, has summoned the Russian Ambassador to Iveagh House today.

Republicans were projected to win a majority in the US House of Representatives, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden's Democratic Party held control of the Senate.

UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt will bury Britain's failed "Trussonomics" experiment today by cutting spending and raising taxes, moves that he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak say are needed to restore investor confidence.

Football's World Cup organisers have claimed that the tournament will be environmentally friendly and carbon neutral. However, some climatologists are expressing doubts over those claims.

One hundred years ago today, four members of the anti-Treaty IRA - John Gaffney, James Fisher, Peter Cassidy and Richard Twohig - were shot by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.

A Status Yellow fog warning was in place for the entire country, as dense patches led to reduced visibility and poor driving conditions.

More than 10,000 children are currently on a HSE waiting list for mental health treatment, with more than 4,000 of those waiting over a year for an appointment, primary school principals have heard.

A Dutch court is set to rule in the case of four men with links to Russia accused of mass murder for their alleged roles in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva is the climate action equivalent of a global rock star.

Andy Warhol's iconic 1960s painting 'White Disaster' was sold for $85 million (€81.8m) at auction at Sotheby's in New York.

A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft COP27 text into something all parties can agree on, the European Union Climate Policy Chief has said.

The leaders of China and Japan will hold their first face-to-face talks in three years, after North Korea fired the latest in a record-breaking missile test programme.

China's foreign ministry said Chinese President Xi Jinping was not criticising Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a day after Mr Xi was seen confronting his counterpart at the G20 summit over alleged leaks from a meeting they held.

US talk show host Jay Leno required skin grafts for significant burns to his face and hands from an explosion involving a vintage car and will undergo further surgery this week, his doctor has said.

The 1926 census is to be digitised and made available online in a project carried out by the National Archives of Ireland.

The Government is examining options for an inquiry into schools run by the Spiritan order, with almost 80 members of the order now the subject of abuse allegations.

It was "very likely" that the deadly missile that struck a Polish border village was from Ukraine's air defence, Poland's President Andrzej Duda has said.

A High Court action brought by the mother of murdered boxer Kevin Sheehy - aimed at preventing her son's killer from being transferred from an Irish prison to one in the UK - has been resolved.