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A major emergency training exercise, simulating a terrorist attack, has taken place in Dublin.

Drugs worth an estimated €145,000 have been seized by gardaí in Dublin.

France and Germany are "jumping the gun" with calls for a European army, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said, asserting that the continent's safety could be guaranteed only through NATO.

A business student who used a sophisticated device to override a credit card machine to steal €2,550 worth of clothing has been jailed for four months.

Largely unknown before his appointment as Theresa May's new Brexit Secretary, former junior health minister Steve Barclay is taking on the high-profile role previously held by Dominic Raab and David Davis.

A French court has sentenced a mother who kept her baby hidden in the maggot-infested boot of her car to a five-year jail term, three years of which were suspended.

A dissident republican weapons haul has been discovered in a residential boiler house that caught fire in Belfast, police have said.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that Theresa May's draft Brexit deal is the only way to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.

Overall hospital waiting lists have reduced by 975 patients, according to the latest figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Brexit and future confidence and supply arrangements on agenda for 2,500 delegates at Fine Gael Ard Fheis this weekend.

The Medical Council is asking all registered doctors for their views in advance of drafting revised ethical guidelines in preparation the enactment of new termination of pregnancy legislation.

A US judge has temporarily restored White House press credentials to CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, which were revoked following a contentious press conference with President Donald Trump.

A 55-year-old man is to stand trial after a 10-month old baby boy was left lucky to be alive from a "crude circumcision" carried out in the midlands three years ago.

Silvio Berlusconi has been sent for trial for allegedly bribing a businessman to lie over accusations he had supplied the former Italian prime minister with prostitutes a decade ago.

A UN-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide today, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the "Killing Fields" was overthrown.

The former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos has received the Tipperary International Peace Award at a ceremony in Tipperary town this afternoon.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman whose body was discovered at her home in Co Fermanagh.

A tiered system of sanctions is set to be introduced for assaults on referees following a meeting between FAI officials and the Irish Soccer Referees Society.

Ethiopians are less likely than anyone else on Earth to have access to a decent toilet, a new study has said.

Guardians of weights and measurements may be about to kill off the kilogram, as it is currently defined.