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The Minister for Housing said he will bring in additional legislation to target short-term lettings in the coming weeks. Darragh O’Brien said the legislation will further restrict the short-term letting of houses and apartments. Mr O’Brien said the amended law will go further that issuing on-the-spot fines, describing the move […]

The monkeypox outbreak in Europe is a “scientific mystery” as the source of many infections remains unknown, immunologist Prof Luke O’Neill has said. Monkeypox, which mostly occurs in west and central Africa, is a viral infection that was first recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s. Symptoms […]

Kerry assault Gardaí investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, aged in his 50s, in Tralee, Co Kerry have made a second arrest. As a result of investigations, a man in his early 30s has been arrested and is currently detained at Killarney Garda station under the provisions […]

A Ukrainian court has sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a Ukrainian civilian – following the first war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion. Sgt Vadim Shishimarin was accused of shooting the civilian in the head in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region in the […]

After three months of war, Russia faces a summer of economic misery, one expert said. It took just days for the conflict to come home after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine in February – not with cruise missions and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and extensive […]

President Joe Biden has said the US would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, saying the burden to protect Taiwan is “even stronger” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was one of the most forceful presidential statements in support of self-governing in decades. Mr Biden, at a news […]

Public health specialist Dr Derval Igoe of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has said that a management team has been set up to prepare for the “eventuality” of monkeypox arriving in Ireland. “It is always better to be prepared,” she told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland. A number of professional […]

A wedding trilogy has been completed for Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker with a ceremony at a castle in Portofino, Italy. Kardashian and Barker each posted to Instagram on Sunday a photo of themselves kissing at the altar, with the caption, “happily ever after”. The photo showed a backdrop that […]

Beijing has extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing as cases of Covid-19 again rose in the Chinese capital. Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of […]

Former Coronation Street actress Catherine Tyldesley has revealed she has named her newborn daughter Iris. The 38-year-old announced in April that she had given birth to her second child with her husband Tom Pitfield. Tyldesley told Hello! magazine that she played a character called Iris Moss in the BBC drama Lilies […]