The Medical Council has defended the removal of an instruction not to deliberately kill a patient from its latest guide. Its president, Dr Suzanne Crowe, confirmed to the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying that a sentence stating: “You must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient” had …

Watch the Oscar nominations live from the US. The Oscar nominations will be announced at 1.30pm. They will be revealed by Atlanta star Zazie Beetz and The Boys actor Jack Quaid. Cillian Murphy is among the stars tipped to land an Oscar nomination today. Murphy has been widely acclaimed for …

Mediahuis Ireland, the company that owns newspaper titles including the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Sunday World and Belfast Telegraph, has announced another voluntary redundancy programme. It follows a previous round of job cuts in March 2023. The company employs around 549 staff in its publishing division on the island of …

The daughter of a peace activist held hostage by Hamas has called for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing war in Gaza. Artist and Filmmaker Dr Sharone Lifschitz, whose 83-year-old father Oded Lifschitz, remains in Gaza said Israel’s military action had not brought hostages home. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, …

People Before Profit is demanding that the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, explain why he said that the extreme right and left in Irish politics are responsible for an increase in hate speech and intolerance in Ireland. The Ceann Comhairle made the comment yesterday at a meeting …

The Tánaiste has said that “misinformation has gathered” around Ireland’s position on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Mr Martin said Ireland supports the preliminary judgments sought by South Africa. Speaking as he arrived at this morning’s Cabinet meeting, Mr Martin said: “South Africa …

The Chief Executive of Irish Rural Link has welcomed proposed legislation that will keep cash circulating in society as more people turn to digital payments. Under plans being brought to Cabinet today by Minister for Finance Michael McGrath, shops and pharmacies will have to accept cash as part of plans …

Prosecutors have accepted a guilty plea from the man who carried out a stabbing attack in Nottingham last year in which three people were killed. Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC told Nottingham Crown Court that the families of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian …

The trial of nine suspects in the murder of high-profile Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, whose killing stunned the Netherlands and spotlighted the country’s drug gang underworld, has begun. Mr De Vries, 64, was shot dead on a busy Amsterdam street in July 2021, shortly after leaving a …

The INMO has called for all non-urgent elective procedures to be cancelled as it said there were 640 admitted patients, including 27 children, waiting for a bed at hospitals around the country. It said the overcrowding is leading to “very dangerous situations for patients and nurses”. Irish Nurses and Midwives …