National News

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Posted: July 26, 2024, 11:00 pm

G20 nations have agreed to work together to make the super-rich pay their taxes, but stopped short of a more substantial deal, according to a declaration adopted after a meeting of finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 10:54 pm

It's the first day (officially at least) of the greatest show in sport and Irish competitors are in action across ten different disciplines at Paris 2024.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 5:46 pm

Two Dublin men have appeared in court charged with organised crime offences after they were arrested by gardaí from Coolock and Raheny.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 5:12 pm

All the action, as it happened, from the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 4:57 pm

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has requested the Garda National Protective Services Bureau examine the original investigation file into Bishop Eamonn Casey.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 4:48 pm

The trial of a homeless man accused of murdering a retired "gentleman", who put him up in his Kildare home, has collapsed at the Central Criminal Court over the type of evidence to be given by witnesses.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 3:38 pm

The High Court has fixed the hearing of a "test" or lead challenge where primary school places are being sought for autistic children.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 2:54 pm

A total of 14,303 people needed to access emergency homelessness accommodation last month, including 9,899 adults and 4,404 children under the age of 18.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 1:50 pm

A man has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to possession of €21.6 million worth of cocaine found on board a ship that docked at Foynes Port, Co Limerick, last year.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 1:46 pm

The National Wax Museum has announced that it is pulling its wax figure of Sinéad O'Connor and launching a new project to "create a more accurate representation" of the singer.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 12:30 pm

A garda has been found guilty of sexually assaulting and falsely imprisoning a woman at a Co Wicklow Garda station.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 12:00 pm

A jury has unanimously convicted Valerie French Kilroy's husband of her murder, rejecting his claim that he was insane when he beat, stabbed and strangled her to death, in what was his third trial since 2021.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 10:55 am

A murder investigation is under way following a fatal stabbing in the Drumcairn Estate in the early hours of this morning.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 10:38 am

Former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have endorsed Kamala Harris's bid for the White House in a video that captured a private phone call between them.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 9:09 am

France will step up security on the country's rail network, the country's SNCF railway operator has said, after sabotage hit the network today and affected the travel plans of thousands on the opening day of the Paris Olympic Games.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 6:52 am

Dublin's Poolbeg chimneys are getting a makeover with painting of the landmark stacks due to begin next month.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 5:00 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sharply criticised his Democratic political rivals, and warned of dire consequences for the Middle East if he was not reelected, as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida today.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 3:23 am

Steady rain is likely to help firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that has devastated parts of the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper, authorities said.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 2:24 am

Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his ex-partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, have been arrested in El Paso, Texas, in a major coup for US authorities.

Posted: July 26, 2024, 1:15 am