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- War, Chinese trade curbs threaten world economy - Donohoe October 17, 2025The Minster for Finance has warned that the restrictions China has placed on exports of rare earths and other minerals used in advanced manufacturing could create a shock to global economic activity.
- Zelensky to meet Trump after Putin summit announced October 17, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet Donald Trump at the White House, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president reaches out to Russia's Vladimir Putin for a fresh summit.
- Rural alert scheme brings sense of community October 17, 2025Community Alert is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The crime prevention initiative was set up following a particularly brutal attack on two elderly brothers in east Cork in 1984.
- North South Ministerial Council to take place in Dublin October 16, 2025Taoiseach Micheál Martin will host a meeting of ministers from north and south of the border in Dublin, as part of a long-standing post-peace process event.
- Baby's death exposed 'systemic failure' of HSE - IPA October 16, 2025The Irish Patients' Association has said the inquest into the death of baby Luke Kelly has exposed not just individual shortcomings in the health service but "a deeper systemic failure".
- BioBank Ireland to create snapshot of people's health October 16, 2025Plans have been announced to create a snapshot of the health of people living on the island of Ireland by combining genetic information with lifestyle, environmental, biomarker and healthcare outcome data.
- CAB seizes two houses from gang member in Limerick October 16, 2025The Criminal Assets Bureau has seized two houses in Limerick from criminal gang member Kieran Keane Junior.
- Hundreds airlifted from storm-damaged villages in Alaska October 16, 2025One of the "most significant" airlifts in the history of Alaska is under way to move hundreds of people from villages on the US state's south-west coast that were inundated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong last weekend, officials said.
- Sam Fender wins the 2025 Mercury Prize October 16, 2025British singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the Mercury Prize 2025 for his third album People Watching, beating competition from Irish artists CMAT and Fontaines D.C.
