National News

Dubliners use significantly more public and sustainable transport than residents of other cities, according to figures provided by the National Transport Authority.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 9:50 am

Enoch Burke has arrived outside Wilson's School in Co Westmeath this morning.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 9:42 am

Actor Matthew McConaughey has filed video and audio recordings of his image and voice with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in a bid to protect them from unauthorised use by artificial intelligence platforms.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 8:59 am

An Iranian lecturer working at University College Cork has described events in Iran as a "massacre", with live ammunition being used against "peaceful protesters".

Posted: January 15, 2026, 8:58 am

A SpaceX capsule carrying ⁠a four-member crew home from orbit in an emergency return to earth necessitated by an undisclosed serious medical condition affecting one of the astronauts splashed down safely early this morning in the Pacific Ocean off ⁠California.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 8:42 am

French President Emmanuel Macron has convened an emergency defence cabinet meeting to discuss US President Donald's Trump's stated intent to acquire Greenland.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 7:30 am

RTÉ radio will mark 100 years of public service broadcasting in Ireland with a series of broadcasts from the GPO.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 6:00 am

The Mayor of Minneapolis has said ICE agents in the city are "creating chaos" after a Venezuelan man ⁠who was pursued by US immigration agents during a "targeted" traffic stop was shot in the leg by a federal officer.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 5:06 am

The United States is withdrawing some personnel from bases in the Middle East, according to a US official, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had warned neighbours it would hit American bases if Washington strikes.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 4:45 am

The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur are set to sign an agreement, more than 25 years in the making, to create one of the world's largest free trade areas.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 2:20 am

US President Donald Trump said he had held a "long call" with Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez, the first known contact between the two leaders since the ouster of Nicolas Maduro.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 1:16 am

Elon Musk's platform X has announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised images of women and children.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:38 am

Many people believe immigration is happening in Ireland on a larger scale than it really is, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Posted: January 15, 2026, 12:01 am

Three Palestine Action activists have ended their hunger strike in a UK prison after 73 days, claiming the government has met one of their key demands.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 11:57 pm

A murder investigation is under way following the death of a man in Coleraine, Co Derry.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 10:34 pm

The United States has said it is launching the second phase of its plan to end the Gaza war, even as key elements of the first phase -including a complete ceasefire between Israel ⁠and Hamas - remain unfulfilled.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 8:51 pm

Gardaí are investigating 200 reports of Grok-generated images of suspected child sexual abuse.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 6:42 pm

A man accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend recorded her dancing with another man at a New Year's Eve party just hours before her body was discovered under a duvet in the bed of his flat, his trial has heard.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 4:49 pm

A 32-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her partner's four-year-old son in Limerick in March 2021.

Posted: January 14, 2026, 4:45 pm

A 17-year-old girl for whom a court has approved a €4 million settlement after being left paralysed from a neck injury after a fall 13 years ago, has said while the settlement will not give her back what she has lost, she will "embrace life with determination".

Posted: January 14, 2026, 1:25 pm