Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said her party’s priority is to build a platform “on the left” before speaking to Fine Gael and Fianna Fail about going into government.

Fianna Fail nevertheless appears on track to significantly increase its seat lead over Fine Gael compared with the last election when the parties were much closer to parity. Social Democrats deputy ...

A police survey that described Notting Hill Carnival as “hell” and a “war zone” is part of an “anti-carnival agenda”, the event’s organisers have said. Almost 90% of officers who responded to the ...

Known as the PKK, the group is outlawed by the UK Government. Several hundred demonstrators gathered, some holding placards with “stop the attacks on Kurds” and “hands off our community centre” ...

Rebel commander Colonel Hassan Abdulghani said that despite the government counter-offensive, his fighters are making gains ...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside parliament in the capital, Tbilisi, on Saturday night, throwing stones ...

A 20-year-old British man has died after being found injured in a hotel lift shaft while on a family holiday in Turkey. Tyler ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of rape at London venue The Groucho Club, the Metropolitan Police said. An investigation was launched following reports of a woman being raped inside ...

Two police officers were taken to hospital after they were exposed to a corrosive substance at Surbiton railway station.

A former deputy leader of Fine Gael has said it will be a “very difficult proposition” for the party to re-enter a coalition with Fianna Fail without a rotating taoiseach.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has suggested that territory under his control should be taken under the ‘Nato umbrella’.

Sean Wilson’s comeback for a Christmas special 19 years after his official departure from the soap was suddenly axed pending a police inquiry.