Attorney General Rossa Fanning said recent controversies across the water serve as reminders of the “vital importance” of judicial independence

An Oireachtas committee is assessing the implications of the UK Illegal Migration Act on the Good Friday Agreement.

Almost €7 million was stolen through account takeover fraud in the first nine months of the year.

A suspicious device was found in a Cork suburb on Wednesday night

Gardaí were alerted to the incident at Duffry Gate in Enniscorthy shortly before 7am on Thursday.

Gardaí have a new weapon in the fight against uninsured drivers which will allow for instant roadside checks

Khalid El Estal's two children, Ali (4) and Sara (1), are included on an evacuation list to leave Gaza and travel to Egypt on Thursday

There are suggestions to stagger and extend opening hours for nightclubs and late bars.

The evacuation of Irish citizens from the Gaza Strip dominates Thursday’s front pages.

The strike action on Thursday coincides with a 48-hour walkout by Unite members which started on Wednesday.

A decision to end the sixth search for the teenager killed and secretly buried by the Provisional IRA has been described as ‘bitterly disappointing’.

Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune has announced she won't contest the next European election

It came as more than a thousand protesters calling for the expulsion of the ambassador stood outside the Dáil

The Government had to charter a €7,000-per-hour business aircraft to take Tánaiste Micheál Martin to the Middle East after the Government’s Learjet broke down again last week leaving Taoiseach Leo Varadkar “stranded” in Paris

A transatlantic flight was forced to turn around over the North Atlantic and return to Shannon Airport after a passenger was reported to be unruly and abusive

A woman has been permitted to seek court orders directing a county council to procure land near to her children’s schools where she can place her caravan on an emergency basis

A legal executive at Michael Lynn''s former practice has denied a suggestion from his defence that she is “not telling the truth” when she said she gave a loan of €80,000 to the former solicitor

A murder accused husband had a substance-induced psychotic episode when he killed his wife at their rural Co Mayo home, a psychiatrist has told his trial

The protest came ahead of a vote on a motion proposed by the Social Democrats calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Israel

A man accused of stabbing his brother-in-law to death in broad daylight in Kilkenny last year has told a jury he believed his wife had cheated on him with the alleged victim "years ago"