Europe Edition

Stephen Silver, who is charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan by shooting the garda dead with his own gun, is "an unreliable historian" concerning his mental health difficulties, a consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court....

The Louisville, Kentucky police department whose officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in 2020 routinely discriminates against black residents, uses excessive force and conducts illegal searches, according to the US Justice Department....

At least two thousand demonstrators have marched through the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, to protest government plans to introduce a "foreign agent" law reminiscent of Russian legislation used to silence critics....

People who own a second property could be exempt from Capital Gains Tax if they sell it to a tenant, a local authority or to an Approved Housing Body, under options the Government is likely to consider to boost housing supply....

Cross-border trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland hit a record high in 2022, generating more than 10bn for goods alone....

Ireland has yet to draw down any of the 1bn entitlement from the EU's huge Covid recovery fund, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA)....

The Association of Catholic Priests and the Lay Catholic Group have called on Church to restore Tony Flannery to ministry....

A "very intimidating" landlord said to have called to his tenant's house looking for rent money after telling her that her Housing Assistance Payments had "stopped" has been ordered to pay her 15,000 in compensation....

It was lights, camera, and check-in at Dublin Airport today as Irish Oscar nominees and their supporters flew out to attend Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles....

Denmark has inaugurated a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, becoming the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad....

The former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu says she did not discriminate against the prominent atheism campaigner John Hamill and would not discriminate against any member of his group - the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster....

The Health Service Executive has apologised to the family of a baby girl who was delivered stillborn, with a knot in her umbilical cord, at the maternity hospital in Limerick over 15 years ago....

A whistleblower who called for help for nursing home residents during the Covid-19 pandemic tells how the help came too late, Oonagh Smyth reports...

Garda found three young children hungry and in dirty clothes and nappies when they called to a house after the children's father claimed he had "killed his wife and kids", the Central Criminal Court has heard....

Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith has lost her appeal against the severity of her sentence for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation, ISIS....

Central Bank predictions that overall inflation rates will drop this year will bring hope to many but for the moment consumers are stuck with record high food inflation....

GDP growth in the euro area was flat in the last three months of last year compared to the previous three months, according to figures published by Eurostat....

Minister for Arts Catherine Martin will meet studios and production companies, including Sony and Disney, as part of a trade mission to LA ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday....

The family of an Irish man who has been detained in Iran since October is calling on the authorities here not to reopen an embassy in Tehran....

Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien warned his Cabinet colleagues yesterday about his "deep concern" with extending the no fault eviction ban, saying it would regarded as a "serious breach of trust" by landlords....

Road users are being advised to take care as cold weather over Ireland is set to continue through the rest of the week....

Twitter owner Elon Musk has apologised to a sacked worker after their exchange on the social media platform went viral....

Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the "most repressive country in the world" for women's rights, with authorities effectively trapping women and girls in their homes, the United Nations has said....

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has said that his forces had taken "all the eastern part" of Bakhmut, the east Ukrainian town where fighting has raged for weeks....

Netflix's popular Formula One show is providing tobacco giants with a fast and effective marketing vehicle to swerve past bans on advertising their product, industry monitors have said....

BBC Sport presenter Gary Lineker will reportedly be given a talking-to by the bosses following a social media post in which he appeared to compare the UK Home Office policy to Nazi Germany....

The Memphis City Council approved a series of police reforms in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols following his beating by police during a 7 January traffic stop, with more far-reaching measures under consideration....

The Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) will tell an Oireachtas committee later today that Ireland may now have the highest level of uninsured vehicles in the EU....

The Government has confirmed a referendum on gender equality will be held later this year....

Inflation is forecast to fall to 5% this year and household incomes are expected to improve, according to the Central Bank....

The Central Mediterranean Sea is considered the deadliest migration route and women represent only a small proportion of those who make the dangerous journey from Libya to Italy....

The most in-depth survey of the British and Irish flora ever undertaken has found that over half of Ireland's native plant species are in decline with native grassland plants suffering the most....

Iran has been experiencing months of unprecedented protests with women at the forefront of them and the fight continues on International Women's Day....

The State has paid more than 400,000 in interest and penalties over late payments to hotels, bed and breakfasts and hostels that provided accommodation to Ukrainian refugees....

Two of the four US citizens kidnapped in northeastern Mexico have been found dead, prompting a vow by the United States to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice....

A commitment to equal rights for women has been a cornerstone of the United Nations since its founding, writes Yvonne Murray. So why has progress stalled?...

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "review the eligibility" of Top Gun: Maverick for this year's Oscars, due to the film's alleged ties with a Russian oligarch....

Owners of rental properties have said the lifting of the Government's eviction ban is necessary to stop the exodus flow of landlords selling up....

Two brothers who detailed the sexual abuse they suffered while pupils of the Spiritian order have welcomed news that a scoping inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse at all religious schools has been announced....

A man has appeared in the the Dublin District Court charged with threatening and abusive behaviour following disturbances at the Court of Appeal earlier this afternoon....

The Defence Forces are to withdraw from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border....

Today's decision to end the ban on evictions at a time of record homelessness could be one of the most consequential ones taken by this Government....

While the winter eviction ban is to be lifted, the personal stories of those attending a viewing in Tallaght, Co Dublin suggest the storm is far from over....

Permanent TSB is to increase its interest rates for new fixed rate mortgages by a further 0.75% from tomorrow....

The Government's decision to lift the no fault eviction ban will "open the floodgates" lead to a "tsunami" of homelessness, the leader of the Social Democrats has said....

A man in his 50s has been before the District Court in Killarney, Co Kerry, charged with murdering his mother at her home in the town last August....

The British government has announced it is willing to push the boundaries of international law over the issue of small boat migration....

The British government has set out details of a new law barring the entry of asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the English Channel....

The Court of Appeal is due to give its judgment on teacher Enoch Burke's challenge to court orders this afternoon....