Third level students from Northern Ireland colleges will continue to be able to study in Europe under the Erasmus+ scheme after the UK leaves the EU because the Irish Government will fund them.

Two cousins are recovering in hospital in Galway after being rescued by a local fisherman, southwest of Inis Oírr, having spent 15 hours in the water.

One of the first Syrian refugees to have been resettled to Ireland has opened a pharmacy in rural Carlow.

Three teenage boys arrested in connection with an attack on young girls at Howth Junction Dart station in Dublin last month have been released without charge.

Tommy Tiernan's hugely popular Saturday night chat show, which was due to finish its ten-week run next weekend, has been extended by six weeks.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the coronavirus emergency is likely to go on well beyond 29 March and could go on for months into the summer.

Irish Distillers - the makers of Jameson Whiskey and part of global drinks group Pernod Ricard - is branching out into hand sanitising gel.

Vicky Phelan's husband Jim has paid tribute to his wife, saying her death will leave a void in their lives that "at this point seems impossible to fill".

The death has been announced of Pogues frontman and songwriter Shane MacGowan. He was 65 and had been ill for some time.

A dog who was lost in the snowy Wicklow Mountains for two weeks has been reunited with her owners after a heartwarming rescue by a pair of doctors.

A 28-year-old woman has been jailed for four weeks for coughing in the face of a garda, the first person to go to prison for the offence during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Patrick Kielty said he cannot wait to get started "on one of the greatest jobs on television" after he was confirmed as the next presenter of RTÉ's The Late Late Show.

Kerryman Michael J O'Connor has survived the Spanish flu, the Irish civil war, two world wars and is now eagerly awaiting his Covid-19 vaccination.

Sinéad O'Connor's estate has said she would have been "disgusted, hurt, and insulted" at her version of Nothing Compares 2 U being used at Donald Trump's political rallies.

The death has been announced of RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley following an illness. She passed away peacefully this afternoon, aged 51.

Rhasidat Adeleke won gold at the NCAA Championships in Texas, breaking her own Irish 400m record in the process with a time of 49.20.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in East Wall, Dublin to protest at the housing of a number of asylum seekers in the old ESB building in the area.

Knock shrine was the first stop for Joe Biden's visit to Co Mayo today, where the US President touched the apparition wall and received a tour of the basilica.