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 will answer more questions about his efforts to suppress damaging information about Donald Trump during the 2016 election, as the former president's criminal hush-money trial resumes.
A man who raped a teenage girl in a park after plying her with alcohol and telling her "age is just a number" has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
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.
A group of around twenty protesters have returned to the site known as Trudder House or River Lodge in Co Wicklow this afternoon with a garda barrier having been placed on the road leading up to the site.
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.
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.