News from Carrickmacross

A spring Covid-19 booster vaccination programme for vulnerable groups has started.

03 April 2025

Stormont's First Minister has said she will strive to protect the interests of workers, families and businesses as the assessment of US President Donald Trump's tariffs regime continues.

03 April 2025

Israeli bombardment has killed nine people in Syria as troops conducted a raid in the south, the local government and a war monitor said, with Israel's Defence Minister saying its military will remain in buffer zones within Syria.

03 April 2025

The US has gotten us and them into a dark and dangerous place, but hopefully their plan includes several exit routes that can be used as needed, writes Sean Whelan.

03 April 2025

The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended as it is "not the season", Kuala Lumpur's transport minister said, more than a decade after the plane went missing.

03 April 2025

Marty Morrissey remembers Mick O'Dwyer - fine player, revolutionary manager, an Irish sporting icon who wore his greatness lightly.

03 April 2025

World stocks dived this morning and investors scrambled for the safety of bonds, gold and the yen, fearing new US tariffs have intensified a trade war threatening to tip the world into recession.

03 April 2025

In recent weeks opposition leaders have ramped up pressure on Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris, and current ministers Jack Chambers and Darragh O'Brien, over housing figures trumpeted in the run-up to, and during, the last election.

03 April 2025

Follow developments as the world reacts to sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump.

03 April 2025

A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for the murder of his future son-in-law, Irish man Damien Conlon in New South Wales.

03 April 2025

With the weighted average EU tariff on US goods around 3%, Donald Trump's 20% is neither kind, nor reciprocal, writes Edmund Heaphy.

03 April 2025

Ireland's pharmaceutical sector appears to have largely avoided a new US tariff rate for now, amid a broader 20% tax imposed on other goods from the European Union.

03 April 2025

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described US President Donald Trump's universal tariffs as a major blow to the world economy and said the EU was prepared to respond with countermeasures if negotiations failed.

03 April 2025

Hungary's government has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, told state news agency MTI.

03 April 2025

The Disability Federation of Ireland will launch a resource to support disabled people to influence the development and delivery of policies and services that affect their lives.

02 April 2025

The Government's "working assumption" is that there will be further US tariffs focused on pharmaceuticals, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.

02 April 2025

A toolkit designed to help schools create more inclusive, supportive environments for children-in-care is to be launched.

02 April 2025

Irish butter and whiskey are among the products set to be impacted by the latest tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, industry groups have warned.

02 April 2025

A Government bill guaranteeing access to cash infrastructure has been passed by the Dáil.

02 April 2025

Mick O'Dwyer, the legendary Kerry Gaelic football manager and player, has died at the age of 88.

02 April 2025