Motorcyclists are being urged to take extra care this weekend as gardaí launch their bank holiday roads policing operation.

There has been a 33% surge in the number of homes built in the first three months of this year compared with the same time in 2025, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Gardaí in Fermoy, Co Cork have renewed their appeal for information on missing couple Conor and Sheila Dwyer on the 35th anniversary of their disappearance.

Emergency services are at the scene of a bus fire on the M7 in Co Laois.

Oprah Winfrey is set to come to Dublin this September for an intimate live conversation at Dublin's 3Arena.

Five people are now being questioned as part of the investigation into the murders of a 4-year-old boy and his grand aunt in Edenderry, Co Offaly last year.

Two men who were arrested in connection with the fatal assault of a 29-year-old woman in Co Tipperary in March have been released without charge.

Autopsy reports into the deaths of the American film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have not yet been completed, a Los Angeles court heard on Wednesday, as the couple's son made a brief appearance charged with their murders.

Brent crude prices jumped to a fresh four-year high today on concerns that the US-Iran war could worsen and lead to a protracted Middle East oil supply disruption that could hurt global economic growth.

Seven Irish people are among the 175 activists arrested by Israel's foreign ministry, after 20 ships from an aid-laden flotilla bound for Gaza were intercepted.

The relatives of five people shot dead by British soldiers in 1972 have arrived at a Belfast court to hear the findings of the inquest into their deaths.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he encourages Britain's King Charles to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, with his comments coming during the British monarch's ongoing US visit.