The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker in Co Cork.

Women emerging from humble beginnings to achieve great things was a constant theme in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novels, echoing her own rise to sparkling literary success, and in 2009 I was honoured ...

More than a dozen people are missing after a tourist cruise vessel sank in the Red Sea, officials in Egypt have said. Authorities were searching for 17 people who went missing, the governor of the Red ...

A man who identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson said he signed up to fight for Ukraine’s International Legion after losing his job.

Police “acknowledge, wholeheartedly thank and praise” volunteers as they confirm the body found in a waterway in Braintree is Martyn Richardson.

A gunman was seen firing directly into a car in a double shooting in which an eight-year-old girl was seriously hurt. The girl, who is in hospital in a stable condition, was shot alongside a ...

A POLICE investigation has been launched after an A12 crash involving two cars. The A12 was closed following a two-vehicle crash near Chelmsford on the morning of November 25. The crash saw the major ...

The Welsh Government estimated that the levy could generate up to £33 million a year if all Welsh local authorities introduce it.

Huw Irranca-Davies, the deputy first minister of Wales, confirmed a number of changes to the Welsh Government’s controversial sustainable farming scheme. The scheme, which resulted in thousands of ...

Yellow "miracle" nappy rash ointment Metanium has been discontinued and branches of Superdrug, Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's are out ...