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Covid-19 made an abrupt return to our lives on our morning ward round. We had set off to check up on our neurosurgery patients in Beaumont's high-dependency and intensive-care units.

By 1964, Ireland was in the midst of an economic revolution, transforming from Éamon de Valera's vision of a closed economy to ushering in foreign direct investment under Taoiseach Seán...

Covid-19 made an abrupt return to our lives on our morning ward round. We had set off to check up on our neurosurgery patients in Beaumont's high-dependency and intensive-care units.

As businesses all around Ireland continue to find their footing in these uncertain times, I spoke with four more food and hospitality SME insiders.

The elimination of the Covid-19 virus in Ireland is not only achievable and desirable, it is also vital to enabling a fully functioning economy and society. What it requires is...

Experts in several countries, including Ireland, are pressing for a "zero-Covid strategy". But what does that mean?

The elimination of the Covid-19 virus in Ireland is not only achievable and desirable, it is also vital to enabling a fully functioning economy and society. What it requires is...

A refusal to shake hands, getting lost on the way to a centre, and a driving tester "flinging" himself back after a car gently braked were among the complaints made...

On the August Bank Holiday Monday, my wife and I and our two girls went out to eat with my cousin, her husband and their daughter and headed to Nancy's...

A refusal to shake hands, getting lost on the way to a centre, and a driving tester "flinging" himself back after a car gently braked were among the complaints made...

On the August Bank Holiday Monday, my wife and I and our two girls went out to eat with my cousin, her husband and their daughter and headed to Nancy's...

Younger people (18-24) are ahead of every other age group in responding to requests for support from charities hit by the Covid crisis.

The Government is set to ban all non-essential travel from countries with high rates of Covid-19, including the US and Brazil, under plans being drawn up by Health Minister Stephen...

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

Public fury over this week's massive explosion in Beirut took a new turn on Saturday as protesters stormed government institutions and clashed for hours with security forces, who responded with...

Thousands of demonstrators thronged the streets near the official residence of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in central Jerusalem on Saturday night, in a renewed show of strength as weeks of...

Residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves on Saturday to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leaking from...

A further 174 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by the Department of Health, while one more person has died of the virus.

A further 174 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by the Department of Health, while one more person has died of the virus.

Lebanon's prime minister says he will introduce a draft bill proposing early elections for the crisis-stricken country, as police clashed with demonstrators in Beirut following the explosion that devastated large...

Brazil was leaping towards a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, and five months after the first reported case the country was showing no signs of crushing...

A former soldier who lost both of his legs in Iraq has become the first above-the-knee double amputee to summit the Matterhorn.

Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in Lebanon's capital on Saturday, at the start of a planned protest over this week's massive explosion that devastated large parts of...

A bad week for Mexican tourism promotion got worse when the English language version of the country's tourism website appeared with hilarious mis-translations.

The death toll from an Indian passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been seriously injured, a senior government official said on Saturday.

Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country after the deadly explosion in Beirut which...

A woman who was filmed naked and unconscious by a man she did not know in a London hotel room won a five-year legal battle on Friday after he pleaded...

Polish border guards have detained 34 people from the Middle East, including four women and four children, who were traveling in a trailer of the lorry that came from Turkey...

“We have stated that our port of Mersin may be used by Lebanon until the reconstruction of the Port of Beirut is complete,” Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told reporters....

Investigators have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the crash site at Calicut International Airport. Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced the news on his Twitter....

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground two weeks ago began spilling tons of fuel.

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

Concerns were raised about a stockpile of explosive chemicals being kept without safeguard at least 10 times before the deadly explosion in Beirut, newly surfaced documents show.

From Aristotle onwards, literary theorists have identified a number of basic plot devices central to any narrative without which it would fail to engage the reader.

Beijing reacted angrily yesterday after US President Donald Trump opened a new front in the Sino-American Cold War when he banned Chinese-owned social media giants TikTok and WeChat.

Seven months before Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, he told two Washington Post reporters: "Real power is - I don't even want to use the word -...