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 European Parliament held an emergency debate this evening over the riots taking place throughout France.

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.

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

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 told.

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.