Police in Northern Ireland have arrested three men in connection with the attempted murder of two police officers in Strabane, Co Tyrone on Thursday evening.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un revealed his daughter to the world for the first time in striking photos showing the pair hand-in-hand before the launch of the nuclear-armed country's largest ballistic missile the day before.

The European Union has warned that it was prepared to walk away from climate negotiations if a satisfactory outcome could not be reached, but said it still believed a deal could be struck between negotiators at the COP27 summit in Egypt.

The 81st Fine Gael Ard Fheis gets under way in Athlone this morning, with Tánaiste Leo Varadkar due to make his leader's address this evening.

A project which began in lockdown in 2020 has spawned a small business with big ideas of becoming a model sustainable food system in Dublin.

Senior RTÉ newscaster Eileen Dunne has retired after more than 40 years on air.

At least ten people died yesterday in the latest prison unrest to hit violence-stricken Ecuador, where some 400 inmates have been killed since last year, the prison authority said.

Gentle decline is not a description that's often applied to the continually contentious, vexing, unfair and undersupplied Irish property market, but that's where it's at according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Successive waves of Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine's energy system, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said, as heavy fighting raged in areas in the east and south.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said the Department of Enterprise has "finally" received redundancy notices from Twitter - saying there will be roughly 140 job losses.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee Justice Department investigations related to Donald Trump including the former president's handling of sensitive documents and effor...

Seventy-seven countries have signed up to a political declaration on "strengthening the protection of civilians from the humanitarian consequences arising from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas", which has been formally adopted at a con...

A man has died and a teenager seriously injured in a two-vehicle road crash in Co Kilkenny.

Sixteen people and their outstanding acts of bravery have been honoured at a ceremony at Farmleigh in Dublin.

Efforts have begun to move 279 asylum seekers still living in tents to alternative accommodation.

A California judge has sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing startup that was once valued at $9 billion.

First Elon Musk revolutionised the automobile industry, then he tackled space travel. By taking control of Twitter, the eccentric billionaire now wields a nearly untold level of influence.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said his pitch to voters at tomorrow's Fine Gael Ard Fheis will be that it is a tried and tested party in Government, which is able to deal with crises, no matter what challenge comes its way.

The sale of alcohol to fans at World Cup stadiums in Qatar has been banned with just two days to go until the tournament kicks off, but those in hospitality boxes will be permitted to quaff beer at the venues.