A man has died and another has been seriously injured in separate shooting incidents in Dublin.

Average rents in Ireland have increased by more than 82% over the past 12 years compared to the EU average of 18%, according to figures published by the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is attending a summit of EU and Western Balkan leaders in the Albanian capital, Tirana.

A five-year-old child at a Belfast primary school which last week reported a severe case of strep A has died.

On 6 December 1922, the Constitution of the Irish Free State came into effect. It was endorsed by both the Dáil and the British parliament in Westminster.

The American actress Kirstie Alley has died from cancer at the age of 71, her family has announced.

The European Union has agreed on a new law to prevent companies from selling into the EU market soy, beef, coffee and other commodities linked to deforestation around the world.

Ukraine worked to restore power after Russia's latest wave of missile strikes caused power disruptions across the country, right as winter frost builds and temperatures plunge.

People are being urged to keep an eye on older and vulnerable neighbours as temperatures are expected to plummet over the coming days.

The European Central Bank will have to raise interest rates several more times to tame price pressures, even if headline inflation is now close to its peak, ECB chief economist Philip Lane told Italy's Milano Finanza newspaper today.

Indonesia's parliament has approved legislation that would outlaw sex outside marriage, in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world's most populous Muslim country.

New Zealand authorities have launched a battle for custody of an infant whose parents are blocking life-saving surgery because blood donors may have been vaccinated against Covid-19.

A man who shot Lady Gaga's dogwalker during an attempt to steal the singer's prize French bulldogs was sentenced to 21 years in prison Monday after pleading no contest to attempted murder.

People in China's capital Beijing are now allowed to enter supermarkets, offices and airports without having to show negative Covid tests, the latest in a mix of easing steps nationwide after last month's historic protests.

The Eurogroup has re-elected Paschal Donohoe as its President for a second term at a meeting in Brussels this afternoon.

One of the main targets of a garda operation set up to target Drogheda's feuding criminal gangs has admitted his part in the murder of a teenager in Drogheda almost three years ago.

A senior garda has denied that he "soft-pedalled evidence" on the "limited facts" that former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall pleaded guilty to at his sentence hearing for facilitating the Regency Hotel murder.

A neighbour of a woman on trial for murder has told the Central Criminal Court that she was "rambling" and "appeared psychotic" days before she stabbed a man.

New figures reveal that the number of animals reported as either stolen or missing from Irish farms has hit a six-year high.

Concern is growing over Strep A cases in the United Kingdom after an eighth child is reported to have died after contracting an invasive form of the Strep A bacteria.