National News

New research from the ESRI has found that foreign-born residents are more likely to be employed, active in the labour market, and better educated compared to the Irish-born population.

Posted: March 28, 2025, 12:01 am

Talks are continuing at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) between HSE management and unions in a bid to resolve a dispute over staffing numbers.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 10:35 pm

Australia will hold a general election on 3 May, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, locking in a showdown over climate promises, nuclear power and a runaway housing market.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 10:08 pm

A US judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app discussing attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen that became public after they were inadvertently shared with a journalist.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 9:43 pm

Britain's King Charles "required a short period of observation in hospital" after experiencing side effects from his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has said.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 9:19 pm

The mother of a baby delivered stillborn at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise almost five years ago has criticised the standard of care she received at the hospital during her pregnancy.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:53 pm

More than 300 people have had their visas cancelled by US authorities as part of a move to crack down on support for Palestine on US third level campuses, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:37 pm

A woman whose drug-addicted mother gave her methadone as a treat when she was 12 years old has been given a suspended sentence for storing drugs for sale in the home she shared with her own children decades later.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:26 pm

A Conservative MP has called on Ireland to join the Commonwealth during a debate in the House of Commons.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:20 pm

The Director of Public Prosecutions has said there is a need to revisit the current approach to the disclosure of documents in criminal prosecutions to make sure the listing of criminal cases for trial is more efficient.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:15 pm

An activist who lived-streamed himself driving his vehicle into an anti-immigration protester during a demonstration in Dublin has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 6:55 pm

Three members of an organised crime gang have admitted using cash trapping machines and stealing money from over 40 AIB ATM machines in four counties last year.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 5:29 pm

An equality hearing has been told that job cuts announced last year for multilingual support staff at TikTok's Irish office were driven by major advancements in artificial intelligence.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 4:44 pm

The third Paris summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron had the biggest attendance yet, 27 leaders out of a scheduled 31, but the 'Coalition of the Willing' is inching forward at a slower pace than Ukraine would want, writes Tony Connelly.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 3:50 pm

A 48-year-old man has been jailed for 16 months for making more than 11,000 nuisance calls to emergency services, jamming emergency telephone lines for nearly 130 hours in 2023.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 3:43 pm

Three men have been jailed for terms of 15 years and 13 years for raping and sexually assaulting a young woman they met in a Dublin nightclub in August 2019 in what the judge described as a disturbing and truly shocking case.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 11:54 am

Almost 100% of people survive at least five years after being diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer, while for melanoma, the more serious type of skin cancer, the survival rate has improved significantly to 92%, a report by the National Cancer Registry of Ireland has found.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 9:04 am

The Minister for Finance has said he is "extremely concerned" about the potential impact of proposed United States tariffs on pharmaceutical exports, warning they could deliver a major blow to Ireland's economy.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 7:37 am

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that he would respond with unspecified trade actions if US President Donald Trump imposes new auto tariffs that have expanded a global trade war and hammered stocks.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 6:39 am

European leaders have reaffirmed their long-term support for Ukraine during a summit in Paris, but appeared to make little progress on what role they might play in providing security guarantees if a peace deal is struck with Russia.

Posted: March 27, 2025, 6:00 am