News from Ennis

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he expects his prediction that Ireland can build 250,000 new homes between 2025 and 2030 to be in revised Government targets in autumn.

24 April 2024

Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara desert covered Athens and other Greek cities, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, officials have said.

24 April 2024

Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he will write a "personal" letter of apology to Stardust families in the aftermath of his State apology in the Dáil.

24 April 2024

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has said that the changed inflation environment will influence Budget 2025 decisions.

24 April 2024

Australian police has said that seven people who posed an "unacceptable risk and threat" to the public have been arrested after anti-terror raids that involved more than 400 officers.

24 April 2024

Negotiators from 175 countries have begun talks on a proposed global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is currently found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and in human blood and breast milk.

24 April 2024

The US Senate passed aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, along with a national security bill that could effectively ban TikTok in the United States, sending them to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law.

24 April 2024

Russian missiles have damaged residential buildings and injured six people in Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Synehubov said on Telegram.

24 April 2024

Tánaiste Micheál Martin is due to visit a Palestinian refugee camp run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian affairs, as part of his visit to the Middle East.

24 April 2024

The US Congress has given final approval to a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bill.

24 April 2024

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has arrived at court in Co Down to face charges of rape and other historical sexual offences.

24 April 2024

Representatives from unions including the NUJ, SIPTU, Connect and Unite are due to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media to discuss 'Governance and Culture Issues' at RTÉ. Arts and Media Correspondent Evelyn O'Rourke looks at what is expected at the hearing.

24 April 2024

Ireland has fallen four places to rank 36 in the most attractive countries for professionals across the world to work.

24 April 2024

Consumers want to make sustainable choices but cost and other practicalities take priority, new research shows.

24 April 2024

China's "resolutely opposes" the inclusion of what it called "Taiwan-related content" in a four-bill package passed by the US Senate that included providing military aid to Taipei, its Taiwan Affairs Office said today.

24 April 2024

The National Union of Journalists is expected to tell the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media that the voice of RTÉ staff "has been missing from discourse" about the series of scandals that have hit the broadcaster in the last year.

24 April 2024

Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza yesterday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents have said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a "dangerous combat zone".

23 April 2024

New laws to tackle money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion are due to be voted on by the European Parliament.

23 April 2024

Ireland's housing crisis has been highlighted in a report assessing human rights in 155 countries by Amnesty International.

23 April 2024

Employment and social welfare supports during the Covid pandemic helped to stabilise the labour market but inequalities persist, according to a new study.

23 April 2024