News from Sligo

Dubai's main airport has said it is limiting the number of flights arriving for two days, as it continues to struggle to clear a backlog three days after a record storm swept the United Arab Emirates.

19 April 2024

Russian strikes on Ukraine in the early hours of this morning killed at least nine people, including three children, as Kyiv said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber for the first time.

19 April 2024

Republic of Ireland and Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu will be sidelined for 'nine to ten months' after it was confirmed that he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon.

19 April 2024

The verdicts delivered in the Stardust inquests "meant so much to us as a family", Susan Behan, whose 21-year-old brother John Colgan died in the nightclub fire on 14 February in 1981, has said.

19 April 2024

The Health Service Executive has announced a spring booster vaccination campaign for protection against Covid-19.

19 April 2024

While Children's Health Ireland disputes Sinn Féin's claims behind figures on hospital appointments, and the arguments about what makes a cancellation or not, there are individuals, families and children awaiting lifesaving cancer care but experiencing delays and cancellations.

19 April 2024

Gardaí are calling on motorists to support today's 24-hour nationwide operation targeting speed, known as 'Slow Down Day', to make Irish roads safer for all users.

19 April 2024

Explosions rocked Iran's central Isfahan province this morning, according to state media, while US officials told American news outlets that Israel carried out a retaliatory strike on the Islamic republic.

19 April 2024

Follow live updates as sources say Israel has carried out a strike on Iran, as explosions are heard near an Iranian army base.

19 April 2024

Taylor Swift has surprised her fans by releasing a secret "double album" expansion of The Tortured Poets Department.

19 April 2024

After a verdict of unlawful killing was returned at the inquests into the deaths of 48 people who died in the Stardust fire in 1981, RTÉ reporter Conor Hunt asks what next for the Stardust families and does their campaign end here?

19 April 2024

The exchanges between Israel and Iran are part of a wider escalation since the war in Gaza began last year, but the two nations' enmity stretches back decades, through a history of shadow wars and clandestine attacks by land, sea, air and cyberspace.

19 April 2024

A ram in New Zealand has been shot and killed by police after it was blamed for the deaths of an elderly couple in a farm paddock, authorities have said.

19 April 2024

India has begun voting in the world's largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term in office on the back of growth, welfare, his personal popularity and Hindu nationalism.

19 April 2024

The chief of the CIA has warned that Ukraine could lose the war to Russia by the end of this year unless the United States sends more military aid.

19 April 2024

Explosions echoed over an Iranian city this morning in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran has played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation - a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.

19 April 2024

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police have said, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack.

18 April 2024

The Irish Red Cross has renewed its appeal for members of the public to consider pledging a room in their homes for Ukrainians.

18 April 2024

Farmers who grow commercial forestry are calling for the suspension of log imports from Scotland until better safeguards are in place to prevent the spread of the spruce bark beetle to this country.

18 April 2024

The survivors and families of the victims of the Stardust fire have said "this day is for the 48" after receiving the verdicts from the inquests into the 1981 nightclub fire.

18 April 2024