Among the more significant developments for Irish people abroad this month were the sweeping changes to the H-1B foreign worker visa scheme relied on by US tech groups announced by US president Donald ...

Abolishing income disregards for the carer’s allowance would take decades at the rate of reduction in last week’s budget, Sinn Féin has argued. The Government increased the income disregard by 60 per ...

A Dublin Bus vehicle caught fire at a junction near Donnybrook, south Dublin on Tuesday morning. Emergency services responded to the incident shortly after 9am and extinguished the blaze about an hour ...

A large proportion of the salmon captured after a fish farm escape of up to 8,000 fish at Killary Harbour, northern Connemara, last summer were sexually mature enough to breed with wild populations, ...

Jack Kelly’s hopes of a medal at his first European Aquatics Championships ended in disappointment in Paris on Tuesday evening, but the 23-year-old’s breakthrough week still has the prospect of his ...

The family of a man who died when the car he was driving veered off a track at a rally and overturned in a flooded stream have thanked the vehicle’s navigator for his repeated attempts to save their ...

Reservoir levels are being closely monitored as the drought continues, but Uisce Éireann said they were not at a critical point yet. Photographs taken on Tuesday show the impact the lack of rain has ...

Delayed detection, conflict and strained health services have helped ​the virus spread more rapidly than in previous outbreaks ...

Global stocks held their nerve on Tuesday, as investors on either side of the Atlantic reacted with differing degrees of confidence that a peace deal will be agreed between the US and Iran to reopen ...

Parts of the incident are thought to have been recorded on mobile phones of passengers travelling in stolen car ...

Fuel prices have risen substantially in August with further increases expected in the coming months. The price of diesel in Ireland has risen by 11 per cent in August to an average of €1.92 per litre, ...

Ben Healy is down to earth and not prone to looking for attention, but when it came to the rest day of the Tour de France, he wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity. Asked by The Irish Times if he ...