National News

A man who grabbed Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman by the shoulders and verbally abused him with a homophobic slur during an election canvass in Dublin has been spared jail.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 3:08 pm

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, will remain in prison after losing a bid to overturn her fraud conviction.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 3:02 pm

Greece said it has recovered from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art a 2,600-year-old bronze artefact stolen from ancient Olympia in the 1930s.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 2:34 pm

Gaza's civil defence agency said that six newborn babies have died in a cold snap which has hit the Palestinian territory over the past week.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 1:28 pm

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the House of Commons that the UK's defence spending will increase to 2.5% by 2027.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 1:04 pm

The Irish and British governments are to appoint an independent expert to assess the merits of engaging directly with paramilitary groups still operating in Northern Ireland as part of a process to encourage them to cease to exist.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 1:00 pm

John Joseph 'Shark' Hanlon has had his training licence reinstated by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:54 pm

A group of Limerick City restaurant workers who decided to close down the premises in a revolt over unpaid wages have won nearly €22,000 for employment rights breaches.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:52 pm

The St Patrick's Festival has announced that proud Dubliner Victoria Smurfit will be this year's grand marshal, leading the parade through the streets of Dublin city on 17 March.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:00 pm

A message from Elon Musk asserting that federal employees will be given "a second chance" to respond to his ultimatum that they justify their jobs or risk termination is likely to spark another round of confusion across the US government.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 11:25 am

Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan has said that the EU was "completely blindsided" after she was detained yesterday upon entry to Israel.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 9:15 am

Pope Francis, who is in critical condition with double pneumonia, is alert and has met Vatican officials in hospital to discuss work issues, the Vatican has said.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 7:36 am

Over the course of eight hours, Prime Time recorded more than 60 incidents of drivers breaking red lights via covert filming at several junctions in Dublin and Galway

Posted: February 25, 2025, 7:06 am

A business owner from Co Donegal has described her shock at falling victim to a text message scam.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 6:00 am

The payment for homeowners who provide accommodation to people fleeing the Ukraine war looks set to be cut as the Government considers the future of the scheme.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 6:00 am

A new report has recommended greater caution and strict monitoring of the prescribing of benzodiazepines and other drugs.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 6:00 am

South Korea's ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol has denied having committed "insurrection" in declaring martial law in his final statement to an impeachment hearing that could formally remove him from office.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 5:20 am

The Kremlin, asked about an assertion by US President Donald Trump that Russia was open to European peacekeepers being deployed in Ukraine, has referred reporters to an earlier statement that such a move would be unacceptable to Moscow.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:47 am

Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn are among more than 1,000 musicians who have come together to record a silent album in protest at proposed changes to copyright law around artificial intelligence (AI).

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:01 am

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the purchase of a scanner almost eight years ago that remains unused at the National Gallery is "very difficult to explain", while the Tánaiste said his reaction was one of absolute fury.

Posted: February 25, 2025, 12:00 am