Ireland

The new service will allow customers to send prepaid parcels through 2,600 postboxes nationwide

An Post announces major change to thousands of postboxes

Plunging temperatures can have a destructive effect on car batteries

Irish drivers warned of hidden damage as temperatures plunge to -1

RTE's new three-part documentary dives deep into Ireland's biggest drug busts

RTE's new documentary dives deep into Ireland's biggest drug busts

Halloween 2026 Met Eireann weather forecast

Good news as Met Éireann Halloween weather forecast comes in

Sisters Ella, Niamh and Alma shared the heartfelt message on GoFundMe

Sisters injured in horror M9 crash share heartfelt message

Irish troops on parade outside

Changing triple lock without referendum a ‘profound betrayal’, claims Sinn Féin

Irish troops on parade outside

Changing triple lock without referendum a ‘profound betrayal’, claims Sinn Féin

Lieutenant Colonel Cormac Brady

Final group of Unifil peacekeepers prepare for deployment

External view of a Paddy Power shop

Paddy Power owner to axe 1,400 jobs after UK tax hikes

The venom of the false widow is more potent than that of native spiders

Irish households warned over venomous spider as temperatures plunge

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan

Twenty-four Romanian men removed from Ireland on charter flight – O’Callaghan

Oireachtas staff strike

McDonald accuses Government of ‘playing chicken’ with public sector workers

Garda Graduation

Garda numbers hit all-time high as force reaches historic peak of 14,800

A child using a smartphone

Third of primary school children have no time restrictions online, charity says

Floral tributes outside the scene of the house fire

Man and woman arrested in connection with Waterford house fire

Dr Sara Burke

Committee hears calls for right to healthcare

A man seen from behind walking inside data centre

Data centre energy use questioned amid AI summit
The EU will need to triple its data centre capacity in the next five to seven years, the bloc’s tech chief has said.
Cillian Sherlock, Press Association

Oireachtas staff staging a strike outside Leinster House

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers staging 24-hour strike

Blurred figures of doctors and nurses walking in a hospital corridor

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers to stage 24-hour strike

Emergency services at the scene of an overnight fire in the Birchwood estate in Waterford City

Man, woman and two children die in Waterford house fire

Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan (centre) speaking at the union's headquarters in Dublin

Public sector strike to go ahead after bid for talks rejected

Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers

Minister asks public sector unions to attend mediation ahead of strike

Gibney, who was arrested on foot of an Irish extradition warrant in Florida least year, had lived in the US for years

George Gibney sentenced to 16 years and eight months

Robert Pether return

Engineer Robert Pether returns to Ireland following detention in Iraq

Minister of Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee

Engineer Robert Pether to return to Ireland following detention in Iraq

Not too late to avoid strike action, insists Lawless

The annual switch from summer time to winter time is fast approaching

Clocks going back in Ireland 2026: Exact date confirmed

Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O’Donovan

RTE ‘slow’ to implement changes – media minister
RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst rejected the assertions by Patrick O’Donovan over reforms at the national broadcaster.
Cate McCurry, Press Association

Tomàs Murphy at his home

Budget does not go far enough in helping disabled, says advocate

Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty

Budget a test that Government has ‘failed’ – Doherty

The Budget was announced on Tuesday afternoon

'Tax-free €50K': The little-known measures you missed in Budget 2027

What's in Budget 2027 for you?

Budget 2027 Calculator - What will you get back in your pocket?

Person Smoking

Fuel excise hikes pushed back to February and cigarettes more expensive

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Survivors of sexual abuse in Irish schools urged to come forward

Taoiseach Micheál Martin

Taoiseach says match boycott may ‘harm’ Ireland with no benefit to Palestinians

Richard Boyd Barrett

People Before Profit outlines plan to redistribute ‘massive wealth’

Fees associated with e-scooters detained by Gardaí have also increased significantly

Under-18s banned from using e-scooters in Ireland from today

People take part in a protest outside the Aviva Stadium in Dublin

Brian Kerr ‘disappointed’ over Ireland v Israel fixtures

A man walking through a large data centre

‘Significant risk’ of power outages due to data centre demand, regulator warns

Labour leader Ivana Bacik (right) and finance spokesman Ged Nash launched the party's alternative budget in Dublin

Labour alternative budget ‘declaring war on child poverty’

Launch of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Annual Report

Drop in sexual offence reports to gardaí ‘hugely concerning’, group says

A protest outside the Aviva Stadium

Ireland soccer team urged to abandon Israel game amid protests

National Fuel Protest

‘Shambolic, arrogant, and incompetent’ – TD calls on FAI CEO and board to resign

Glastonbury Festival 2025

Sir Rod Stewart announces UK and Ireland tour which will ‘definitely be my last’

U2 performance at Mount Temple Comprehensive School

Thousands get surprise U2 gig in Dublin for band’s 50th ‘birthday’

Charity pleads for Budget funding as homelessness numbers continue to spiral

James Browne and Ber Grogan holding Simon Week booklets

‘Meaningful’ action on homelessness urged in Simon Communities fundraising push

A person withdrawing Covid vaccine into a syringe

HSE incurred 8.4m euro in charges for Covid vaccines that cannot be used

Content featuring the theft of cars, joyriding, speeding and wrong-way driving have featured on social media platforms

Social media can't say how many watched dangerous driving videos

Children playing

Child trafficking significantly under-identified in Ireland – IHREC warns

Blurred figures of doctors and nurses walking in a hospital corridor

More than 10,000 health workers set to strike for a day in October

A person on an e-scooter

‘Exponential’ rise in scrambler and e-scooter injuries ‘stretching’ system

Labour’s Ged Nash and Ciaran Ahern speaking to the media

‘Legitimate’ trade union action coming if pay disputes are not settled – Labour

Michael O’Leary head and shoulders

Ryanair boss apologises over ‘rapists’ comment

Maureen Larkin and her mother Josephine Larkin

Daughter's plea to bring mam home to Ireland after sudden death in US

Paul Greaney KC

Families will be ‘disappointed’ Garda officers will not give evidence in person

Drinks being poured

Rising costs threatening to make many hospitality businesses unviable – research