News from Dundalk

Nepal is to increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world's tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials have said.

22 January 2025

South Korea's transport ministry has said that it would remove the concrete embankment installed at Muan International Airport following last month's Jeju Air crash, its deadliest domestic air disaster.

22 January 2025

Turkey has detained nine people, including the owner of the hotel, in connection with a deadly fire that claimed the lives of 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the west of the country, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

22 January 2025

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol were freed, after the new president pardoned more than 1,500 people, including some who assaulted police officers.

22 January 2025

US President Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted over $200 million (€192 million) in illicit trade using Bitcoin.

22 January 2025

Two men have been arrested in Derry in connection with the investigation into the serious assault of a man in his 20s in Lifford, Co Donegal.

22 January 2025

Elections all done, counting concluded and negotiations complete, the day has finally arrived for the Dáil to elect a Taoiseach. So how will events unfold?

22 January 2025

Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin is set to be nominated as Taoiseach by the Dáil before being formally appointed to the office by President Michael D Higgins.

22 January 2025

The Irish-founded payments platform Stripe is to lay off 300 employees, around 3.5% of its global workforce.

21 January 2025

The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland has claimed that Ireland "is stuck in an echo chamber" over its criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

21 January 2025

Under the Constitution, the new cabinet can consist of at most 15 senior ministerial positions. It has already been decided that those roles will be split between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. The question is, who gets what?

21 January 2025

Danish politician Anders Vistisen has been told off for using profane language while discussing the new US administration in Strasbourg's European parliament.

21 January 2025

Education and Training Boards Ireland has expresssed concern at the omission from the Programme for Government of a target set by the last government to increase the number of multi-denominational primary schools here.

21 January 2025

Secondary teacher, Enoch Burke has been given two weeks to make submissions to the High Court on how fines imposed on him for contempt of court are to be enforced.

21 January 2025

Sligo University Hospital has apologised to an 82-year-old woman whose throat was perforated during a routine endoscopic procedure, leaving her with life-changing injuries.

21 January 2025

Dáil rules - or standing orders - are not something that would usually generate much interest, but conflicting interpretations of the rules are now at the centre of the first major political row of the new Dáil.

21 January 2025

Met Éireann has said Ireland can expect to see strong winds, heavy rain and potential localised flooding as Storm Éowyn passes over the country later in the week.

21 January 2025

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters have raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least ten Palestinians and injuring a further 35 people.

21 January 2025

The death toll from a fire that ripped through a hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey rose to 76 people, according to the interior minister.

21 January 2025

Sinn Féin will oppose what it called "disgraceful" plans to adjourn the Dáil for a full two weeks after the Government is formally elected tomorrow.

21 January 2025