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US President Donald Trump has suggested a plan to "just clean out" Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 9:37 am

Israeli troops fired at residents of south Lebanon, killing two and wounding 32, health officials said, as hundreds of people tried to return to their homes on the deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw from the area.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:46 am

Follow updates as clean-up operations continue after Storm Éowyn caused widespread destruction and disruption when it hit the country on Friday.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:09 am

The return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office has left many in Downing Street pondering how best to deal with the man many view as the disrupter-in-chief.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:00 am

A number of Cabinet ministers will be dealing with pressing issues in the areas of work and technology, with looming industrial disputes, potential redundancies and demands to tackle business costs.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:00 am

An experienced, energetic, and vocal politician, Patrick O'Donovan heads into his new ministerial role on the back of a poll-topping 2024 General Election campaign.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:00 am

You have to draw the line somewhere. And for me the line is the first five days. I mean, how is anyone supposed to keep up with the torrent of news coming out of Trump White House?

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:00 am

Seeing through what promises to be the biggest change to Senior Cycle education here in 100 years is among the top challenges that will face new Minister for Education and Youth Helen McEntee, writes Emma O Kelly.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 7:00 am

Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and death camp where more than 1.1 million people were murdered between 1940 and 1945, about 85% of whom were Jews.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:00 am

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:00 am

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:00 am

With an "America - and Israel - first" approach, the incoming US Ambassador could be on a collision course with the UN, not least over her view Israel has a "biblical right" to the West Bank.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:00 am

One of Donald Trump's first actions as US President was to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement - the most important legally binding international treaty on climate change.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:00 am

Elon Musk has been a constant presence as Donald Trump charted out his second administration, writes Petula Martyn.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 5:00 am

US President Donald Trump said he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision on the app's future in the next 30 days.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 4:31 am

Several Status Yellow weather warnings are in effect as damage from Storm Éowyn continue to be assessed.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 2:45 am

President Donald Trump has instructed the US military to release a hold imposed by former president Joe Biden on the supply of bombs to Israel, a White House source has said.

Posted: January 26, 2025, 1:09 am

A family in Co Galway is assessing the damage that Storm Éowyn has caused to their home.

Posted: January 25, 2025, 4:58 pm

Despite two near misses for Olympic podium spots in 2024, it was a record year for athletics in Ireland - with three major Championships to come, what will people be talking about in 2025?

Posted: January 25, 2025, 3:27 pm

Twelve months on from laying his deepest thoughts out for the world to see in Netflix's Six Nations docu-series, Andrew Porter says it was a cathartic experience.

Posted: January 25, 2025, 2:59 pm