News from Kildare

One of the women arrested at a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza at Leinster House yesterday was ordered to strip naked and subjected to "absolutely disgusting" treatment, the Dáil has heard.

01 April 2025

Two Irish citizens living in Berlin have been issued with deportation orders for involvement in pro-Palestinian protests in the German capital, they have said in a statement.

01 April 2025

Although the speaking rights row has run its course, with all the bad blood still swirling around, the Dáil looks prone to outbreaks of pyrotechnics, writes RTÉ's Political Correspondent Paul Cunningham.

01 April 2025

The High Court has heard that an elderly man was the victim of an unprovoked attack while waiting for hours with his sick wife in a hospital emergency department.

01 April 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the wanted leader of Bosnia's ethnic Serbs, Milorad Dodik, in the Kremlin, a day after Mr Dodik had announced a visit to Moscow.

01 April 2025

The pharmaceutical sector is a huge part of the Irish economy, providing thousands of well-paid jobs and contributing billions of euro in Corporation tax.

01 April 2025

Minister for Education Helen McEntee has said she does not believe that any school should have just two pupils and that "conversations need to be had" with a number of schools whose enrolment has fallen to this level.

01 April 2025

Dr Morgan McMonagle was inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza last week when it was hit by an Israeli missile

01 April 2025

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said a woman, who said she has become isolated from the rest of the Traveller community for bringing her husband to court "deserves respect and support for taking this extremely tough decision".

01 April 2025

The US Attorney General has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division Brian Thompson in New York last year.

01 April 2025

A man who attacked his victim with a samurai sword over a €50 drug debt has been jailed for four years.

01 April 2025

A 37-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of his partner in Co Meath almost three years ago.

01 April 2025

A 63-year-old woman has been rescued in Myanmar's capital city after being trapped for 91 hours by the devastating earthquake that rocked the region, local fire services said.

01 April 2025

Democratic US Senator Cory Booker accused President Donald Trump of "recklessly" challenging the nation's democratic institutions in a marathon speech that was approaching a record.

01 April 2025

Former Limerick senior hurler Mark Keane has been awarded almost €950,000 in damages for the severe injuries he suffered while coming to the rescue of a co-worker at a Johnson & Johnson plant during a workplace accident seven years ago.

01 April 2025

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned "all options are on the table" in response to US President Donald Trump's tariffs threats, saying while the EU does not want an economic conflict it has the "power to push back".

01 April 2025

A 64-year-old man who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July 2023 has urged people who are eligible to make use of the free home test they are sent.

01 April 2025

The last of the four American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week has been found dead, the US Army said, without providing additional details.

01 April 2025

Aid groups in Myanmar described scenes of devastation and desperation after an earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, stressing an urgent need for food, water and shelter and warning the window to find survivors was fast closing.

01 April 2025

The Dáil has voted confidence in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy after a lengthy debate.

01 April 2025