Europe Edition

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said the day of action by the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors next week over proposed new rosters is "unnecessary"; and not helpful....

Over 1,000 applicants from more than 100 countries were conferred as Irish citizens today....

Britain will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel....

A detective has been arrested and questioned as part of an investigation into garda suspected of working for organised crime groups....

Gary Lineker will "step back" from presenting Match Of The Day until he and the BBC have reached an "agreed and clear position" on his use of social media....

An 81-year-old former Offaly priest who sexually abused a young woman as he drove her to the Rape Crisis Centre for counselling has avoided a jail term, as he is the sole carer for his elderly sister....

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and fragile Cerrado savanna hit record highs in February, according to government figures released this morning, showing the challenges President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces to reverse surging environmental destru...

A murder investigation is under way after a man in his 40s died following an assault in Newbridge, Co Kildare earlier this week....

Figures released by the Residential Tenancies Board show a significant increase in the number of landlords issuing notices to quit to their tenants last year....

The Oscar Wilde pre-Oscars bash was a star-studded affair with Oscar nominee Kerry Condon, Jessie Buckley and Eve Hewson among the honourees....

A food bank at the coalface of the cost-of-living crisis is distributing sanitary towels and tampons as women and girls experiencing poverty are being forced to prioritise buying food over period products....

The husband of a woman who died after she was attacked in her Dublin home almost three years ago has pleaded guilty to her murder....

More falls of snow are expected across parts of Ireland, with accumulations in places and icy conditions. Viewers have been sending in their best photos. Send yours to yourphotos@rte.ie....

A Mexican drug cartel accused of kidnapping four Americans and murdering two of them has said the killers acted alone and will be handed over to authorities, local media reported....

Temperatures are set to fall again overnight, with a Status Yellow ice warning in effect for Connacht and ten other counties....

A gunman in Germany shot dead seven people including an unborn baby before killing himself at a Jehovah's Witness worship hall in the city of Hamburg, police and prosecutors have said....

A post-mortem is due to take place this morning on the body of a man following a fatal assault in Blacklion, Co Cavan yesterday....

Three people were shot and wounded in Tel Aviv in an attack carried out by a member of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, Israeli police said....

CMAT was named the winner of the Choice Music Prize for Album Of The Year, for her debut If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, at a live awards ceremony in Vicar Street, Dublin....

Several people have been killed or seriously injured in a shooting at a church in the northern German city of Hamburg, with the motive for the attack unclear, police have said....

A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder by gardai investigating a fatal assault in Co Cavan....

More than 11,000 health workers are still waiting to receive the 1,000 pandemic bonus which the Government promised to give to those who worked on the frontline during the Covid-19 crisis....

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, on a visit to Israel, has expressed concerns about Jewish settler violence against Palestinians and warned against acts that could trigger more insecurity....

Sinn Fin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that she would like to see the Northern Ireland Assembly back up and running before the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement....

Despite a fall-off in demand for electric vehicles (EVs) last year, sales are on course to deliver "a step-change" the year after next, an Oireachtas committee has heard....

Meals on Wheels say demand for services has increased by up to 30 percent in some parts of the country, with certain providers having to introduce a waiting list....

An airport cargo handling company has been fined a quarter of a million euro for breaches of health and safety legislation following the death of an experienced employee who fell from the door of a plane four years ago....

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Irish Government has not ruled out taking legal action against the British Government if it proceeds with the controversial Troubles Legacy Bill....

The UK has announced the rollout of an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme, with visitors from Qatar the first to use it from October....

US law enforcement agents, who are in Dublin for a major cybersecurity conference, have warned of the importance of protecting official Government devices....

This year's carpet has a new colour - champagne....

Children will spend one hour a week learning a modern European language under a new primary school curriculum that will be phased in in the coming years....

North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile, Seoul's military said, Pyongyang's latest show of force just days before South Korea and the United States kick off major joint military exercises....

Mortgage rates went up in January reflecting some of the effect of successive interest rate rises from the European Central Bank....

Three workers have been killed in an underground collapse in northeastern Spain at one of Western Europe's largest potash mines, according to regional union USOC....

A Latvian woman who beat her friend to death with a claw hammer has been told she will spend at least 16 years in prison for the murder....

Meta, the Facebook parent company, has announced that its Ireland boss Rick Kelley is to leave the social media firm....

A family of six face eviction from their home in Donabate, Co Dublin, following the Government decision to end a ban on no-fault evictions which had been in place since October and will expire at the end of the month....

A number of schools have been closed and motorists are urged to drive with care as snow showers sweep across the country....

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the Government will not reverse the decision to lift the no-fault eviction ban even if there is a massive increase in homelessness in the coming months....

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the Government will not reverse the decision to lift the no-fault eviction ban even if there is a massive increase in homelessness in the coming months....

Met ireann has issued two Status Orange warnings for snow and ice covering eight counties along with Connacht and Leinster over the next 24 hours....

Nearly 200,000 people in Thailand have been admitted to hospital because of air pollution this week, officials have said, with Bangkok shrouded in a harmful haze....

A Virginia prosecutor has said that he would not seek charges against a six-year-old boy who police said shot his teacher at school earlier this year....

The Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his portrayal of Tevye in the stage and screen musical Fiddler on the Roof, has died, Israel's president has said. He was 87....

Discussions have been ongoing between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Education with a view to securing additional funding to allow 58 school building projects that were 'paused' this week to proceed....

Volleys of Russian missiles struck a series of Ukrainian regions early today, including the Black Sea port of Odesa and the second city of Kharkiv, knocking out power to several areas, regional officials said....

US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to agree to begin negotiations on ensuring free-trade agreement-like status for the European Union, two sources familiar with the plans said yesterday....

Brexit has resulted in the biggest shift in British immigration patterns in over 50 years according to a new study....