The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters. The move comes after the US signalled it would …

The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is due to hear a military representative group outline its significant concerns about pending legislation. The Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO) has branded parts of the Government’s Defence Ammendment Bill as “unnecessarily draconian, repressive and restrictive.” The critique is contained in …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has decried as a “mockery” protests by Polish farmers that have disrupted passenger and freight traffic in and out of Ukraine and called for “rational decisions” to restore normal cross-border traffic. It comes as Polish protesters have vowed to step up their blockades of the border. …

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee will seek approval from the Cabinet to update regulations in order to expand the Garda Reserve. It is understood the minister hopes a planned recruitment campaign can increase the number of Garda Reserve members to at least 1,000 by 2026. Reserve members are involved in …

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath will travel to Stormont to meet his Northern Ireland Executive counterpart, Dr Caoimhe Archibald, for the first time. He will also visit a number of projects in Belfast which are supported by the Government’s Reconciliation Fund. Minister McGrath hopes to build what is described as …

The High Court in London will begin hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s final UK appeal against extradition to the United States to face trial over publishing secret military and diplomatic files. Washington wants the 52-year-old Australian citizen extradited after he was charged there multiple times between 2018 and 2020 in …

Nationwide lunchtime protests will be staged at technological universities today in a dispute over pay. Third level members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) will take part in the action to highlight what the union said are unacceptable regional variations in pay and conditions in the sector. The TUI …

Lawyers for former solicitor Michael Lynn have said that Lynn has instructed them to file an appeal immediately against his conviction and sentence. His lawyers said they were also calling for the Oireachtas to set up a tribunal of inquiry into banking in Ireland. Earlier today, Lynn was jailed for …

Russian investigators will keep Alexei Navalny’s body for “at least two weeks” to conduct an examination of the corpse, his spokesperson has said. Russia reported Mr Navalny’s death on Friday after prison authorities said he suddenly dropped dead following a walk in the ‘Polar Wolf’ penal colony but have yet …

A man has pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing child abuse material in the form of two videos and two images. Niall Colgan, 39 and of Muckross Park, Perrystown, Dublin 12, appeared in court where he pleaded guilty to one count. He pleaded guilty to possessing child …