Europe Edition

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris will seek Government approval to give the go-ahead to a major student accommodation project at DCU....

How was a psychologist able to operate with fake qualifications, as was revealed in an RT Investigates programme on Monday night?...

Minister of State at the Department of Transport Jack Chambers has said Dublin Airport will have counter-drone technology in place in a number of weeks but the airport says it can't put an exact timeline on its introduction....

A sister of murder accused Stephen Silver has told a jury that she knew her brother was "very unwell" the day before the shooting and that her family planned to have him admitted to a psychiatric hospital....

Aid agency Concern has said the survivors of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria will require humanitarian assistance into next year....

A former British policeman - jailed for life for the murder of Sarah Everard in London - has been sentenced to an additional 19 months in prison for indecent exposure....

Tnaiste Michel Martin has said he intends to speed-up proposals to introduce the European Working Time Directive across the Defence Forces....

Thousands of Twitter users have reported problems with accessing links from the Elon Musk-headed social media platform and other websites, an issue the company said it was working to resolve....

The only dedicated pet pig rescue in the country has been forced to close its doors to new pigs, due to a threefold increase in the number of unwanted and abandoned pigs they are caring for....

Belarus has sentenced exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in prison for spearheading historic protests against the former Soviet country's authoritarian leader....

A young trans student has hit out at comments made by Catholic church school authorities that primary school pupils should not be taught about "what it means to be trans"....

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said it is easy for people who were involved in the Covid-19 pandemic to come out now and say Ireland should have done things differently....

Recent comments by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin suggest yet another clash with the Kremlin as a video emerged of him criticising Moscow's provision of ammunition in the ongoing battle for control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut....

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has said he is to create a panel to gauge opinion on the Windsor Framework....

With more and more tools like ChatGPT emerging, two experts join the Upfront Whatsapp group to debate the future of artificial intelligence....

A psychiatric nurse has been jailed for 12-and-a-half years for raping his wife three times and what the judge described as a systematic pattern of repeatedly sexually assaulting his daughter....

Ice warnings for the whole of Ireland have been issued for tonight through to tomorrow morning by Met ireann and the UK Met Office....

Shoppers spent an additional 113.56 per buyer in the 12 weeks to February 19 compared with the same time last year, new figures from Kantar show today....

RT Investigates has learned that a psychologist used bogus qualifications to get a job with the Health Service Executive....

Meta Platforms' WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent on changes to its privacy policy update introduced last year, the European Commission said today....

One of the UK's longest-serving prisoners has appeared at a public parole hearing as he makes his latest bid to be freed from jail....

Catholic primary schools have told the Government that their pupils should not be taught about transgenderism....

The HSE is legally obliged to provide an Assessment of Needs within six months of an application. But the HSE confirmed to RT Investigates that the average waiting time is 16 months....

The chief economist of the European Central Bank, Philip Lane, has said interest rates will have to be increased further, beyond the ECB's meeting later this month....

Microsoft is to cut an additional 60 jobs from its Irish-based workforce as part of global cost-cutting plans announced in January....

An investigation is under way after an elderly man died and another man was seriously injured in fire at a house in Co Louth in the early hours of this morning....

The Court of Appeal will give its decision this week on an appeal by former soldier, Lisa Smith against her 15-month sentence for membership of the terrorist organisation ISIS....

Japan's main opposition party has submitted a bill to parliament to approve same-sex marriage, hoping to pile pressure on the government before the country hosts the G7 summit in May....

South Korea has announced plans to compensate victims of Japan's forced wartime labour, aiming to end a "vicious cycle" in the Asian powers' relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North....

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force has warned that Russia's position around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is in peril unless his troops get ammunition, the latest sign of tension between the Kremlin and the private militia chief....

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has called an emergency meeting to discuss its next course of action in a dispute over garda rosters....

Police in Britain searching for five people who disappeared after a night out in Cardiff say they have located three of them dead....

The Coalition leaders will meet at Government Buildings this evening to consider whether to extend, amend or discontinue the no-fault eviction ban, which is due to run out at the end of the month....

Garda are investigating the murder of a man whose body was found in his burned-out home in Castlebar last night....

New research has found that in Ireland 20% of the working-age population were born abroad while in Northern Ireland it stands at just 9%....

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has called an emergency meeting to discuss its next course of action in a dispute over Garda rosters....

The estimated number of job losses at tech companies here is just over 6% of the new jobs created in the sector since the end of 2019....

Migrants in Ireland and Northern Ireland are more likely to have third-level qualifications than the native-born population....

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of a body of a man in a house in Castlebar, Co Mayo....

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has warned that some elements of proposed new pay-related welfare benefits could weaken income protections for low-wage and part-time workers....

A Minor Hurling League game in Dublin between Naomh Fionnbarra and Clanna Gael Fontenoy was abandoned today following an alleged assault on a match official....

Community growers in Ireland are calling for stronger legal protections for the country's growing number of allotments and community gardens....

China has said its military spending would rise at the fastest pace in four years, warning of "escalating" threats from abroad at a meeting of its rubber-stamp parliament that will hand Xi Jinping a third term as president....

A state-funded body that represents the parents of post primary school children is no longer "fit for purpose" according to a review carried out into its governance and funding....

A State-funded body that represents the parents of post primary school children is no longer "fit for purpose", according to a review carried out into its governance and funding....

Met ireann has issued a Status Yellow ice warning for Ireland from 6pm tomorrow to 10am on Tuesday....

Minister of State and Fianna Fil TD Thomas Byrne said legislation regarding windfall tax on energy companies will be brought in over the next few weeks and it will apply to revenue made last year....

Clashes erupted briefly between police and a group of demonstrators in central Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece's deadliest train crash in living memory....

Kyiv has said it is holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months....

Opposition TDs have called for an extension to the eviction ban as Government party leaders meet with Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien on Tuesday....