Stormont’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill is giving evidence to the UK Covid inquiry in Belfast today. Ms O’Neill arrived two hours before she was due to begin giving evidence. The inquiry is in the closing stages of three weeks of evidence gathering, looking at Northern Ireland’s experience of the pandemic. …

Britain’s Court of Appeal has refused to change the sentence of Valdo Calocane, who was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of three people in Nottingham last year. Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January after admitting the manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility of …

The Cabinet will this morning consider a new targeted enterprise support package to help retail and hospitality businesses hit hard by higher costs. The plan, expected to be approved by the Cabinet, is set to include more generous sustainability grants. It will be funded by tapping unused monies in a …

An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years. The vessel Alboran Cognac, which measured 15 metres in …

A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a man in Co Kildare in the early hours of Sunday morning. Valeriu Melnic, with an address in Calliaghstown Lower in Rathcoole, Co Dublin, was charged with the murder of 39-year-old Ion Daghi at an address in …

US crews in Baltimore set off controlled explosions to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container ship that toppled following a collision in March. In the early morning of 26 March, the Dali, lost power and crashed …

Israeli forces have pushed deep into Gaza’s northern edge to recapture an area from Hamas fighters, while in the south tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah, leaving civilians scrambling to find safety. Some of the most intense fighting for weeks is raging in both the north and …

There are now 48 tents along a section of the Grand Canal in Dublin sheltering unaccommodated asylum seekers, an increase from last Thursday when there were 26. The tents are along the north side of the canal between Baggot Street and Leeson Street. The first tents were pitched on this …

At least 14 people were killed and 75 others were injured after a billboard bigger than an Olympic swimming pool fell on them during a thunderstorm in India’s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said, with dozens still feared trapped. Videos showed the towering hoarding billowing in the wind before collapsing on …

An elderly woman who was assaulted in Dundalk on 3 May has died. The woman, who was aged in her 80s, died in a Dublin hospital yesterday – ten days after the incident at the Glenwood Estate in Dundalk. Two other women, aged in their 40s and 70s, were injured …