News from Birr

Zambia in southern Africa has some of the highest rates of reported gender-based violence in the world. Karen Creed and camera man Brian Walsh travelled there, supported by the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, to look at the impact of this violence on women and girls.

01 May 2025

The United States has once again warned it may withdraw from the Russia–Ukraine peace talks, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the US needed "concrete proposals" from both sides.

01 May 2025

The Prison Officers' Association has accused the Government and the Department of Justice of consistently failing to deal with the overcrowding crisis in the country's prisons by failing to plan for the increase in inmates.

01 May 2025

A Russian drone strike overnight killed at least two people and wounded five others in a residential area of Odesa, the Ukrainian region's governor said.

01 May 2025

Societal silence around child sexual abuse needs to be addressed, according to the support charity One in Four.

30 April 2025

People in England are voting in a number of local and mayoral elections today.

30 April 2025

The Cabinet Housing Committee will discuss who might lead the newly-established Housing Activation Office.

30 April 2025

RTÉ has confirmed it has written down a figure of €3.6 million on a partly failed IT system, which was one of the projects funded from the proceeds of the sale of land at its Dublin site in 2017.

30 April 2025

A woman jumped from a massage table in shock after a masseur in a hotel spa in Cork sexually assaulted her shortly after he asked her if she would like a "surprise" at the end of the session.

30 April 2025

The number of Ireland-born residents in Australia has passed 100,000, according to official figures.

30 April 2025

New RTÉ News podcast Behind the Story takes a look at Belfast rap trio Kneecap, who have been under the spotlight since their recent appearance at the major US festival Coachella.

30 April 2025

Business investment in Ireland is being weighed down by the uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump's tariffs, according to the Governor of the Central Bank.

30 April 2025

Northern Ireland's First Minister has said the British government's decision to appeal a court ruling that a public inquiry should be held into the murder of Sean Brown was "cruel and inhumane".

30 April 2025

The wife of missing Kerry farmer Michael Gaine has appealed for information on his disappearance, saying: "We just want Michael to come home."

30 April 2025

Dublin have been drawn in the Group of Death with the Connacht champions, the Ulster runners-up and Derry as the draw for the All-Ireland SFC group stage was made at Croke Park this afternoon

30 April 2025

The partner of an allegedly sex-addicted businessman who sacked her as his company secretary after she confronted him about using a gay dating app and an escort website while on a family holiday has been awarded nearly €100,000 by an employment tribunal.

30 April 2025

A retired garda sergeant has said a "thorough, formal" search of the home of Richard and Tina Satchwell took place in June 2017, after Ms Satchwell had been reported missing three months previously.

30 April 2025

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called a BBC programme in which he claims he was defamed an "attempted hatchet job" that was "full of inaccuracies".

30 April 2025

The record temperature for April has been broken, according to provisional data from Met Éireann.

30 April 2025

The US and Ukraine have signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump's administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid.

30 April 2025