The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said there are 800,000 fewer smokers in Ireland since smoking was banned in workplaces, bars and restaurants 20 years ago.
The number of people accessing emergency accommodation reached another record high last month, with 13,841 people recorded as homeless, of whom 4,170 were children.
The government of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces a no-confidence vote over the handling of a train crash last year that killed 57 people, after media reports emerged this week alleging manipulation of evidence.
There was an increase in the number of social and affordable homes delivered last year, but the figures fell short of the Government's overall targets.
The risks posed by armed conflict, terrorism and hybrid security threats are compounded by Ireland's low level of investment in military and defence, according to the National Risk assessment.
An organisation which helps thousands of people at risk of homelessness has launched a new 'front door' project which aims to highlight the importance of having a home.
The Kremlin gave no indication that President Vladimir Putin plans to visit family members of those killed in last Friday's attack on a Moscow concert hall, which killed 143 people.
More than 160 young delegates from Comhairle na nÓg youth groups across Ireland met in Dáil Éireann this morning to debate the critical issue of mental health, one of the biggest topics of concern to young people in Ireland, according to organisers.
Almost 900,000 counterfeit or illegal medicines were seized by authorities in Ireland last year, according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).
Athenians are choking in clouds of thick dust blown in from the Sahara along with unseasonably warm weather, weather forecasters and doctors have warned.
Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman has said he does not accept that the new accommodation strategy for international protection applicants is direct provision under another name.
Chancellor of University of Limerick Brigid Laffan is addressing staff at the college as the controversy sparked by the purchase of 20 homes in a nearby housing estate continues to grow.
Unions have pushed back against complaints from businesses about rising labour costs arising from a series of Government policy changes aimed at improving conditions for workers.
The bodies of two men have been recovered from the water after a bridge collapsed in Baltimore when a freight ship crashed into it, officials have said.