Parents have been urged to exercise restraint when it comes to buying Easter eggs for their children this year. The HSE National Clinical Lead on Obesity has said that on average children will receive six Easter eggs each and this is too much, particularly at a time of an obesity …

Four men have gone on trial over the 2018 attack in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg, where a radical Islamist killed five people before being shot dead by police after a 48-hour manhunt. The traditional Christmas market was in full swing on 11 December when Cherif Chekatt – a convicted …

The Government is going to keep up pressure on the European Commission regarding legislation to regulate short term lettings in Ireland, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has told the Dáil. He was responding to Labour leader Ivana Bacik who claimed that the commission was continuing to “sit on” the legislation. Mr Martin …

What’s it like to drive one of the armoured personnel carriers (APC) used by Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon? RTÉ News reporter Justin McCarthy and camera operator Brian Walsh were given a tour of one of the vehicles at Camp Shamrock, where 332 Irish troops are currently deployed. Camp Shamrock is …

A man has been found not guilty of the UVF murders of Catholic workmen Eamon Fox and Gary Convie in north Belfast in 1994. James Stewart Smyth, 58, of Forthriver Link in Belfast, was also cleared of one count of attempted murder, possession of a firearm and membership of a …

Evelyn O’Rourke has been appointed as Arts and Media Correspondent for RTÉ News following an internal competition. Ms O’Rourke, from Dublin, is an award-winning broadcast journalist for over 20 years and has worked on a range of programmes in both English and Irish across RTÉ and TG4. Her current role …

No prosecutions are to be pursued following consideration of the final files from a major investigation into the British army’s top agent in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said it considered a large volume of material and information contained in six files submitted by Operation …

France and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned for four years for a doping offence earlier this season. Sky Sport Italy and La Repubblica reported the sports prosecutor’s request for a four-year ban was granted. Pogba (30) was provisionally suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping (NADO Italia) tribunal in September …

Former UK police officer Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard in London almost three years ago, should never have been given the job and chances to stop the sexual predator were ignored and missed, an inquiry has found. Detectives “repeatedly failed” to spot warning signs about Couzens’ “unsuitability for office”, …

The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning the killing of the former Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, describing it as a murder. MEPs also called for an independent investigation into his death. Mr Navalny died on 16 February in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving a lengthy …