The excise cuts on petrol and diesel will remain in place until the end of October, after a Government motion to extend the reductions was passed.

The US president will visit Ireland for two days next month.

He made the comments after more than 214 million euro was invested in Irish AI companies in the first half of the year.

An Garda Síochána and the PSNI collaborated on the arrests.

Excise rates will be restored over four stages between the start of November and the end of February.

Some 1,893 new driver licences were issued last year, bringing the total number of drivers to 27,891.

Cian O’Callaghan set out measures his party believes could ease the situation for households.

It comes as the CAO issued 90,866 round One offers to 62,166 applicants.

The Irish model, 35, rose to fame on the 2019 series of Love Island and recently became known in America for reaching the final of The Traitors US.

Ferry passengers between Ireland and Britain will need a valid passport from the end of next month.

Passengers travelling between Holyhead and Dublin or Fishguard and Rosslare will now need to show a passport on departure.

A status yellow warning has been issued by Met Éireann for Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow.

Ella Hendricken, Niamh Kinsella and Alma Kinsella, and a young boy were seriously injured when a car crashed into their vehicle.

As students prepare for the academic year ahead, gardaí has issued a nationwide warning over a sharp annual spike in accommodation fraud.

Jack was one of the five teenagers who died in a motorway crash in Co Kildare earlier this month.

Simon Harris said there are deep societal issues which need to be examined, saying it is multifaceted.

The Fiscal Advisory Council believes that Ireland’s current strong economy does not need budgetary support.

The Fiscal Advisory Council believes that Ireland’s economy does not need budgetary support – and that a large package could fuel further inflation.

There was a heavy police presence for the funeral mass of 18-year-old Jeremy O’Brien.

Garda checkpoints, as well as various garda vehicles, including the Public Order Unit, were in place in Carlow for the funeral of Jeremy O’Brien.

The Northern Ireland Secretary is to meet the Irish Ministers for Justice and Foreign Affairs on his first official visit to Dublin on Monday.

Market rents rose by 1.4% in the second quarter of the year

The State’s only child-detention facility is engaged in an industrial relations dispute with its employees over concerns about safe staffing levels.

The Dáil is to be recalled early from the summer recess to vote through a financial resolution to shelve an increase in fuel excise.

Social media companies are ‘endangering’ society by failing to remove content depicting dangerous and illegal activity, a Cabinet minister has said.

The pregnant 25-year-old’s body has never been found.

Gardaí carried out several searches as part of an ‘investigation targeting an organised crime group’.

All four were granted bail subject to conditions

Gardaí are treating the death of a woman in Limerick city as a murder

Five teenagers were killed when the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9 in Co Kildare and hit another vehicle.

Helen McEntee has criticised an Israeli government tender for the construction of more than 1,200 housing units in the West Bank.

A prayer vigil in solidarity with the injured women and boy was held on Friday evening in Saint Clare’s Church in Graiguecullen.

Joe Carthy was one of five teenagers who died after the car they were travelling in was driven the wrong way down the M9

Gardai said they believed the men were part of a group who carried out burglaries across the country.

It happened on the N71 at Caha pass just before 3pm on Thursday.

The child and family agency also confirmed that two of the other teens who died were known to it.

The HSE Drugs Group decided to recommend that the drug Skyclarys, used for Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), should not be covered by the HSE.

It said it would not be “appropriate” for it to be the sole video-sharing company to be called in front of the committee when similar content appears on other social media platforms.

An excite cut of 32c on a litre of diesel and 27c for petrol is due to be phased out from September.

Paul Butler, 51, from Dublin, died following an incident during which he had contact with gardaí in the city last year.

The chief executive of Meta is ‘excited’ by the purchase, a spokesman said.

The substances are linked to ‘serious physical and mental health harms’.

It comes after five teenagers were killed in a crash on Sunday in Co Kildare.