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A Status Yellow rain warning has been issued for Ireland on Thursday as Storm Austen spreads across the country.

Some younger and more inexperienced drivers could reduce their car insurance premiums nearly sixfold by opting for telematics - or so called 'black box' cover - according to new research.

Apu has returned to The Simpsons with a new voice actor, almost a decade after the character last spoke on the animated series.

A man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the death of a 56-year-old man, whose body was discovered in Co Cork last Thursday.

Irish comedian Joanne McNally received a standing ovation as she made her US TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Limerick Mayor John Moran has spoken of abusive comments and death threats he has received on social media and said he feels like he is "living in parallel universes".

France will impose new curfews in areas where needed, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said, adding that the measures introduced in several cities the previous day had "helped keep the night calm".

Revolut users are among customers which have been hit by disruption to services following a power outage affecting Google's Cloud network.

Alberta residents have voted to remain part of Canada in the province's first-ever referendum on separation.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States is not deliberately withholding military supplies from Ukraine, which has sought advanced Patriot air defence interceptors to counter Russian attacks.

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has said he will meet the Law Society of Ireland in the "coming days" over the criminal legal aid dispute.

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has stood over his comments that solicitors had deliberately targeted rape cases in their dispute over criminal legal aid.

A solicitor working in criminal legal aid has described the comments by the Minister for Justice that solicitors had deliberately targeted rape cases in their dispute as beneath the dignity of his office.

There is "frustration and distrust" in the Government among Defence Forces representatives, who say promises on working conditions and pay have still not been delivered.

US President Donald Trump has said he is open to three-way arms control talks with the leaders of China and Russia as soon as next month.

Australian police said they have charged a man for what they allege was a "targeted" attack on MP Helen Haines, who suffered critical injuries.

A Japanese spacecraft is on its way to one of Mars's moons on a world-first mission to retrieve samples, potentially helping unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth.

Far-right and far-left MEPs have clashed over their contrasting framing of the riots in France, Italy and Belgium during a European Parliament emergency debate.

The purchase of new turnkey properties for social housing is set to be phased out by the end of 2027.

The body which manages Ireland's electricity grid has forecast there will be a reduced risk of power outages during the peak winter season, from next month to the beginning of April.

Increasing damage claims contributed to the average cost of a car insurance premium rising by 4% to €655 last year, new research from the Central Bank shows.

Websites advertising prostitution should be banned across the UK and Ireland, according to a report by Northern Ireland's Assembly All-Party Group on Modern Slavery and Commercial Sexual Exploitation.

Public sector pay talks were set to resume this morning at the Workplace Relations Commission.

St Patrick's Athletic boss Stephen Kenny has accepted his side's SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division title hopes are over but insisted the team has come on "leaps and bounds" this season.

The Minister for Justice will today call on solicitors to explain why cases involving allegations of rape were in his words, "deliberately affected" today in the dispute over changes to the legal aid scheme.

Japanese scientists launched a spacecraft that aims to be the first to retrieve samples from one of Mars's moons, potentially helping to unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill are to be interviewed by police in relation to their attendance at a counter-demonstration to the Drumcree Orange Order march.

Schoolchildren are being encouraged to connect with Irish heritage and nature through a new bilingual placename festival.

Behind The Story asks how student protests in France exploded into rioting that left public buildings stormed and set alight.

An alleged victim told Russell Brand's trial she feared reporting him due to the 'lad culture' of the era, as "it would be his word against mine".

The World Food Programme is to end monthly assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, despite acute needs in the war-battered Palestinian territory.

A 19-year-old man was remanded to prison today for sentencing, after he pleaded guilty to a fatal hit and run that killed a nurse earlier this year.

The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has told MEPs that Ireland's draft proposal for the long-term EU budget is a cause for "serious concern" due to the cuts it envisages to the EU's foreign and international development budget.

A 46-year-old woman who set up another man to be shot dead in one of the Hutch-Kinahan feud murders has been jailed for six years and three months.

More than 50 people were killed and over 200 wounded when Yemen's Houthis hit a military camp in energy-rich Shabwa province with ballistic missiles, officials and military sources said.

FedEx has responded to US actor Kevin Bacon's social media appeal, for his missing clothes that were shipped from New York state at the end of September, to where he is staying in Ireland.

The family of a 60-year-old man who was murdered in a violent attack at his home in Donegal last year has said they believe his kind and caring nature led to his death.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court in Limerick has heard that 89-year-old Josephine 'Josie' Ray, who died in August 2024, was smothered and strangled to death while in bed at her home.

RTÉ has said it was "a mistake" that a Palestinian flag necklace was edited out of a recent episode of Cheap Irish Homes.

The PSNI believed it was possible that dissident republicans may have used guns and petrol bombs to attack police officers if they attempted to clear protesters blocking an Orange Order parade along the Garvaghy Road, the High Court in Belfast has been to…

Food prices across the main supermarkets rose by 4.69% annually in the 12 weeks to 4 October, latest figures for the sector indicate.

Australian MP Helen Haines is ⁠in a critical condition after being deliberately struck by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, police and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

TV presenter Davina McCall has revealed she has cardiovascular disease, following her previous battles with breast cancer and a brain tumour.

Irish cyclist Lara Gillespie says her Olympic planning remains very much on track following her latest World Track Championship success.

The son of a chief prison officer who was shot by the IRA in 1983 and later died has said that the State is "stepping up to the plate" by issuing an apology over the investigations into his death.

Curfews were in force in parts of northern France overnight after the country was rocked by some of its worst street violence in years.

Ukraine received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian ballistic missile strike overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, adding that some vital deliveries from the United States were being delayed.

Two men charged in connection with a traffic pursuit in which a stolen car allegedly drove on the wrong side of the M50 in Dublin yesterday evening have been denied bail.

Owners of derelict properties will be a hit with a tax of 7% of their value if they fail to take remedial action.

The joint funeral mass of Kim and Phillip English, and their sons Callum and Jayden, has heard that an "act of total evil" has left a family and community "devastated and heartbroken".