English voters go to the polls today for two more by-elections where once comfortable Conservative seats could go to the UK Labour Party. Following on other losses it would be a record number of defeats for any Tory government if it lost today’s votes in Wellingborough and Kingswood. Both Wellingborough, …

Multiple people have been shot in Kansas City, Missouri, near the vicinity of a Super Bowl victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs, police have said. The condition of the victims was not immediately clear. Two armed people were taken into custody, police said. “Shots were fired west of Union …

Follow the latest developments as representatives of RTÉ appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media to answer questions about the transparency of expenditure, governance, and future funding of the organisation. Source link

Ukrainian troops are starting to run out of ammunition as a huge package of US war aid requested by President Joe Biden remains blocked by Republicans in Congress, a top White House official has said. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan urged the Republican-led US House to follow the lead of …

A man who knocked down and killed a 51-year-old woman when he was three times over the legal limit for alcohol just hours after he attended the funeral of his father has been jailed for 18 months. Gobnait Twomey, a native of Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh in Co Cork, had …

Watching a favourite influencer eat the latest fast food fad or drink a cocktail may feel like entertainment, but the posts are likely advertisements in disguise, the European Union has said. The EU is concerned about the growing impact of social media content creators – on everything from physical and …

Before being pummelled yet again at the Oireachtas Committee on Media, RTÉ executives and board members were given a grudging thanks for attending. Fine Gael TD Brendan Griffin said he wanted to “acknowledge” that fact, adding it was “not good enough” that so many others were not present. He did …

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in the case of a 14-year-old boy who has been left in a windowless room off a hospital emergency department in Co Kerry for the last 56 days. The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and …

A man who knocked down and killed a 51-year-old physiotherapist when he was three times over the legal limit for alcohol just hours after he attended the funeral of his father has been jailed for 18 months. Gobnait Twomey, a native of Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh in Co Cork, had …

The Amazon rainforest is facing pressures that might tip it into large-scale ecosystem collapse as soon as 2050, according to new research, warning of dire consequences for the region and the world. The Amazon, which holds more than 10% of the world’s biodiversity, helps stabilise the global climate by storing …