Members of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) are to hold a series of demonstrations in every county tomorrow, in solidarity with farmers protesting across Europe. For months farmers have been protesting over regulations and conditions. In France, the EU’s biggest agricultural producer, farmers say that they are not being paid …

Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys has said the Government might “down the road” have to reduce welfare payments for all Ukrainians staying in State accommodation. She told the Dáil that the EU’s Temporary Directive ends in March 2025 and the Government needs flexibility as it starts to plan for …

In a series of articles looking at the issue of immigration in Ireland, today RTÉ’s Europe Editor Tony Connelly focuses on how the EU has attempted to deal with the migration crisis and examines how Ireland’s response might be impacted by the EU Migration and Asylum Pact. The migration crisis …

Russia and Ukraine have completed another large prisoner exchange despite the crash last week of a Russian military transport plane that Moscow says was shot down by Ukraine carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to a similar swap. The two countries have carried out periodic prisoner swaps via intermediaries since the …

‘How is everybody doing?’ The social media accounts for Elmo, the lovable Sesame Street character, posed that question this week and thousands of replies flooded in. It turns out, people were not feeling too great with many sharing their struggles, anxiety and worries with Elmo. Even US President Joe Biden …

Judges at the top United Nations court have found that Russia violated elements of a UN anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. In the same ruling, judges …

Hamas is reviewing plans for a three-stage ceasefire with Israel which foresees a weeks-long halt to the Gaza war, a source in the Palestinian militant group has said. The Islamist movement said earlier this week that it was mulling proposals drawn up by mediators in Paris for a second truce …

A doctors’ group has called for new rules to speed up clinical negligence cases after it said some doctors are facing significant mental health issues due to the length of time it takes to resolve claims. The Medical Protection Society, which gives legal representation and advice to 16,000 doctors in …

A Travellers’ rights advocate has won a discrimination case and must get €6,500 compensation and an apology from the head of JD Wetherspoons after the chain’s Dún Laoghaire pub refused to serve her a drink. “I felt such an equal walking into that pub, and horrible walking out,” Margaret O’Leary …

A student who assaulted a gay couple and threw homophobic slurs at them as they tried to intervene in a row he was having with his girlfriend has been given a fully-suspended sentence. Charlie Lawlor, 21, of St Patrick’s Terrace, Monkstown Farm, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to assault …