Great news for consumers, businesses and the economy, but not so good for existing Irish banks and non-bank lenders is how the announcement that Spanish lender Bankinter intends to enter the Irish market in a more meaningful way has been interpreted.
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.
The Irish banking market is set to receive a competition boost with news from Spanish lender Bankinter that it intends to use its subsidiary Avant Money as an Irish banking branch.
Four people have been charged and are due to appear before the district court following protests at a site earmarked to accommodate international protection applicants in Co Wicklow last night.
The ruling that overturned Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction gives the one-time film mogul a chance at a new trial and calls into question what evidence prosecutors can use in future sex crime cases.
People living in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary are "in fear" of having to go to University Hospital Limerick's emergency department and "would rather die at home", according to a local campaigner.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has condemned attacks on gardaí during a protest at a site earmarked to accommodate international protection applicants in Co Wicklow last night.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that campus protests sweeping the United States in opposition to Israel's ongoing war in Gaza were part of democracy.
An Egyptian delegation met Israeli officials, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages, an official briefed on the meetings said.
The Director General of the Irish Prison Service has said that in spite of the fact that over half of the country's inmates are serving sentences for violent crime, the level of violence in Irish prisons is relatively low.
