Lebanese leaders have urged the US ambassador to Beirut to pressure Israel to halt its attacks as it pounded the country with airstrikes on over 30 locations despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

The Social Democrats are calling for an increase in betting tax to 5% to help fund sports and culture initiatives in disadvantaged areas, a move which the Irish Bookmakers Association says would decimate local bookmakers.

A serious breakdown in relationships at the top of Northern Ireland's legacy body is undermining its work, according to a British Government commissioned review.

Dublin Rose Suad Mooge has said she is "shocked but not surprised" at comments on social media by people saying she "is not Irish".

Business owners are continuing to count the cost of a fire that swept through a business centre in the Tycor of Waterford on Saturday night.

A search is under way of lands in Rathfarnham in Dublin as part of the investigation into the murder of a 42-year-man 17 years ago.

Four men have been remanded in continuing custody over an alleged plot to attack a mosque in Co Galway.

An estimated €855,000 is to be spent over the next five years on consultants to assist RTÉ with the distribution of the millions of euro generated by the annual Late Late Toy Show appeal.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on 23 state institutions and officials responsible for Russia's "systematic unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children.

More than 2,100 applications have been made to the Government's fuel support scheme for farmers and agricultural contractors within its first week.

The Israeli military has said it has sentenced two soldiers to imprisonment after one of them was photographed placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon.

PTSB has told the High Court an application by a prominent shareholder to classify the State as a different type of shareholder in the bank would "torpedo" the timetable for a sale of the company to Austrian bank BAWAG.