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The appeal by NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore topped £30 million on Thursday as he celebrated his 100th birthday.

Complaints about nurseries and childcare providers, wedding companies and those offering holiday accommodation failing to refund people for services not provided are being investigated by the competition watchdog.

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed a massive drop in profit after taking a major hit from worsening economic conditions in the first three months of the year.

Leading Indian actor Rishi Kapoor has died of leukaemia at the age of 67.

May 1 is National Workplace Wellbeing Day and who would have thought we would be celebrating it at home in 2020?

Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood on Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, officials said.

Police have been called to a New York City neighbourhood after a funeral home overwhelmed by coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a...

A 72-year-old man seeking to create history by becoming the oldest person to row solo across the Atlantic has reportedly fallen just five miles short of breaking the record.

Under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not.

Demonstrators chanted pro-democracy slogans in a luxury mall in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the latest in a string of small but determined protests as the city's coronavirus outbreak slows.

'Anyone know if/where you can buy a fiddle leaf fig in Ireland?" So read one of the tweets that popped up in the last month, as those in lockdown seek...

If we thought the decision to impose a stay-at-home order was tough, then the options on how the coronavirus lockdown may be relaxed are proving much more agonising.

British Police want the football season called off completely if fans defy social-distancing rules in the event the campaign resumes during the coronavirus crisis.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was back at work at his Downing Street office after being present while his fiancée Carrie Symonds gave birth to their son, his political spokesman...

PUBS want to reopen at the same time as restaurants - but would 'reserve their position' if that meant restrictions on serving alcoholic drinks.

Following the birth of Boris Johnson's son, questions have been raised about whether the British prime minister will take any paternity leave amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

As a former Progressive Democrat, I'm familiar with the propensity of Irish voters to give smaller government parties an almighty kicking. As a result, I must admit to having a...

Nine elderly patients have died of Covid-19 at a long-term care facility in West Cork where there has been an outbreak of the virus, the HSE has confirmed.

The newly discovered tail fossil of the first "river monster" dinosaur shows the giant predator was a powerful swimmer and the first known to have lived in the water.

There has been a general welcome for the rethink on the Junior Cycle and the scrapping of the plan to run exams in the autumn. Instead, schools will have the...

As we move into a clouded future it would be a great consolation to be able to call on an expert of our tomorrows. Unfortunately those we have are all...

Teachers' leaders have warned that any plans to reopen primary schools in May or June would present "very particular challenges".

'Lockdowns cause poverty." That certainty was stated on Monday by David Nabarro of the World Health Organisation during an online discussion with the think tank I work for.

One of my favourite sports people of the last 20 years was the English boxer Ricky Hatton.

Sally Maaz was a courageous, ambitious, warm, and deeply loved young girl, who dreamed of becoming a doctor. She was a miracle baby who survived and thrived against all odds.

With lockdown has come stress, anxiety and feelings of loss, but as isolation persists, a fire in me suppressed for more than two decades has been awakened.

A second three-month payment break for borrowers hit by the Covid-19 outbreak could be unveiled within days, AIB chief executive Colin Hunt has told the Irish Independent.

With lockdown has come stress, anxiety and feelings of loss, but as isolation persists, a fire in me suppressed for more than two decades has been awakened.

One of the most difficult things to accept in politics is that the voters might not want what you want.

Debenhams workers have called on the Government to intervene with the company's liquidation process in a bid to halt the loss of 2,000 jobs in Ireland.

Frontline healthcare workers will not get special paid leave to mind their children at home.

As other countries launch contact-tracing apps to help the fight against Covid-19, Ireland is still waiting. Will we get it out anytime soon? How might it compare to other countries'...

The Garda Commissioner has said that gardaí do not have the power to examine people's shopping bags to ensure compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.

The pandemic has prompted huge numbers of people to stop using cash, while half of those surveyed have postponed or cancelled upcoming travel.

No child has been found to have passed coronavirus to an adult, a major review of the evidence about the virus has found.

Ireland is one of 12 countries that have called on the European Commission to change the rules on refunds for cancelled airline flights.

A hunt for genes that may betray carriers by initiating or exacerbating Covid-19 infection is being carried out using DNA data from genealogy hobbyists.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has disappeared from public view recently, might have been spending time at his luxury seaside compound, satellite images suggest.

'Germany will never forget what you have done for us," is how then German chancellor Helmut Kohl described his feelings 30 years ago when talking to Taoiseach Charles Haughey at...

President Donald Trump has said the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire on Thursday.