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A 51-year-old criminal has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a teenager in Co Meath a year and a half ago....

The death has been announced of artist Camille Souter, Irish painter and member of Aosdana....

The death has been announced of artist Camille Souter, Irish painter and member of Aosdana....

Remains found by UK police searching for Constance Marten's baby were discovered wrapped in a plastic bag under some nappies in an allotment shed, a court heard....

Pope Francis has paid tribute to murdered Irish-born Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles David O'Connell, who will be laid to rest in a crypt in the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in the Archdiocese this evening following his requiem mass....

Ten people have been extradited to Poland by garda....

Italian prosecutors have begun investigating why rescuers arrived too late to last weekend's deadly shipwreck as the coastguard brought to safety another boat carrying hundreds of migrants....

Reality TV personality Stephen Bear has been jailed for sharing a private video of him having sex with his ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison on his OnlyFans website....

Ahead of International Women's Day next Wednesday, An Post has issued four new stamps to mark the "outstanding contribution" of women in public life....

Evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules would have been "obvious" to former British prime minister Boris Johnson during "partygate", the inquiry into whether he lied to MPs has said....

The economy grew by 0.3% in GDP terms in the final three months of last year, which is markedly slower than the initial estimate of 3.5% published last month, according to figures published by the Central Statistics Office....

Scientists have found a new disease in wild birds caused solely by plastic pollution....

A court in Belarus has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison for financing protests and other crimes, in a case that rights groups say was politically motivated....

More than half of the world's population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report....

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to stop using an anaesthetic gas in the NHS which has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide....

France will contribute to an "action plan" for preserving the world's tropical forests with an additional 100 million to protect the vital resource, President Emmanuel Macron said during a trip to Africa....

The British government will more clearly explain within days how Northern Irish lawmakers can potentially veto new European Union laws, the Northern Ireland Secretary said as London tries to convince unionists to back a new deal with the EU....

The Cabinet will meet incorporeally later this morning to approve a memo on additional accommodation for those seeking shelter in Ireland, Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has confirmed....

Police raided the Larissa train station in Greece as part of the investigation into a collision between two trains that killed at least 57 people, a police spokesman said....

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS) after a brief delay, carrying two US astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut on a six-month science mission....

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for treason, a verdict that ruled him out of elections this year and was immediately denounced by the United States as a "miscarriage of justice"....

Russian troops and mercenaries are closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, on the cusp of Moscow's first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war....

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington or talks on charting the way ahead in their support for Ukraine, after friction over tank deliveries to Kyiv....

A first-time Republican Congressman in the United States is to be investigated over allegations that he lied extensively about his background and violated campaign finance laws, the US House Ethics Committee has said....

The HSE's Chief Operations Office Damien McCallion has said it is too early to know when full facilities will be restored at Wexford General Hospital following a fire earlier this week....

This weekend marks the centenary of some of the worst atrocities committed during the Civil War. Donal Byrne has been looking at what happened at Ballyseedy, and in other parts of Kerry, during what became known as the "Terror Month"....

Activists have used stern words and star power to pressure UN states to sign a long-awaited treaty protecting biodiversity in the high seas. Delegates are hopeful negotiations will conclude today....

Hungary is gambling on the belief that economic and political relations with Russia can return to normal after the war in Ukraine ends, writes Liam Nolan....

More than one third of employees in Ireland feel invisible or under-appreciated at work, according to a new survey....

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary has said the solution to illegal drone activity at Dublin Airport is "relatively easy" and called on the Minister for Transport to implement it immediately....

A US jury has found prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son on their hunting estate in a trial that has drawn global attention....

The latest garda crime figures show an increase in most serious and violent crime in the past year, but an overall reduction when compared to pre-pandemic crime figures....

The Taoiseach has said another energy credit over the winter months has not been ruled out....

Allies of former British prime minister Boris Johnson have reacted furiously as partygate investigator Sue Gray plans to join Labour leader Keir Starmer's office as his chief of staff....

An Oireachtas committee has heard that claims against maternity services account for the vast majority of the costs the State faces in medical negligence cases....

News2day has asked the children of Ireland what they think of a decision to amend the latest editions of Roald Dahl's books to remove words that might be considered offensive....

Minister of State Niall Collins has defended a planning application he made in Co Limerick 22 years ago....

A Belgian woman who murdered her five children in a case that shocked the country has been euthanised at her own request, 16 years to the day after their killing, her lawyer has said....

An investigation into over 20 Covid-related deaths at a HSE-run nursing home in Dublin during the first wave of the pandemic has outlined "significant concerns" regarding the management of preparations and the initial response to the outbreak of t...

A British couple have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after the remains of a baby were found in an area of woodland in Brighton, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said....

A leading family law High Court judge has said the case of a genetic mother left without any legal rights to her child born through surrogacy after her marriage broke up has "laid bare the grim reality" of the absence of legislation....

The head of British security service MI5 has made an unprecedented public apology as he acknowledged the agency did not seize the "slim" chance it had of preventing the Manchester Arena terrorist attack....

The High Court has approved two settlements totalling almost 18m for two young boys whose mother was given the epilepsy drug Epilim while she was pregnant....

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will travel to Wexford tomorrow to see first-hand the damage done to Wexford General Hospital following yesterday's fire....

Police in Northern Ireland investigating the attempted murder of a senior officer by the New IRA last week say some of the suspects are criminals from a loyalist background with long-standing connections to the dissident republican group....

A Russian flag was discovered painted onto the base of Denmark's "The Little Mermaid" statue in what police said was a "case of vandalism" at Copenhagen's most famous landmark and a popular tourist attraction....

The conferring of an honorary doctorate on the former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the peace campaigner Professor Monica McWilliams at Dublin City University has been interrupted by a group of student protesters....

A man who threw acid in the face of a woman, poured boiling water down her back and barricaded her into her home, which he then set on fire, has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years....

A voluntary exit scheme for dairy farmers will be put in place next year, the Minister for Agriculture has indicated....

The organisation representing the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland has said that greater transparency is coming in relation to the evaluation and approval of new medicines by the State....