It must feel decidedly uncomfortable being pulled in two directions at once, but that's the situation facing ministers Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath as they face growing calls to increase spending.
Australian police have charged another teenager with a terrorism-related offence in investigations after the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a live streamed sermon in Sydney Earlier this month.
Hamas has said it had received Israel's official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group's deputy Gaza chief said in a statement.
Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has expressed concerns over anti-immigration protests and the impact also, as he warned how some people are experiencing racism "for the first time ever".
The US Defense Secretary has announced $6 billion in new military aid for Ukraine as the United States rushes to fill gaps left by months of limited American assistance.
Britain's King Charles is said to be "greatly encouraged" at returning to public-facing royal duties following the positive effect of his cancer treatment.
At least 10 people have been killed and 11 were injured in a fire that broke out in a defunct hotel being used as a makeshift homeless shelter in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, officials have said.
A former pastor who engaged in theft and fraud to steal more than €125,000 from his own Kildare-based church has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to help Mr Trump's 2016 presidential bid, even though it would have boosted sales of his tabloid.
It is too early to jump to conclusions about the impact of the Rwanda deportation policy, the British government has said, after Tánaiste Micheál Martin claimed it was causing an influx of migrants into Ireland.
Kylie Minogue, Kneecap, The Wolfe Tones, Noah Kahan and Raye are among the acts who will perform at the Electric Picnic music festival this August in Stradbally, Co Laois.
Gardaí have said they will remain overnight at the site known as Trudder House or River Lodge in Co Wicklow following the serious public disorder last night.
