Members of the public are being urged to shop local and adhere to public health guidelines including mask wearing mandates and social distancing measures as they return to physical shops for the first time in over 4 and a half months.
Doctors in Spain have performed pioneering heart surgery on a two-month-old baby girl after succesfully completing a transplant with a heart that had already stopped beating from a donor with a different blood type. Video: David Dunne
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said airline travel will pick up in the coming couple of months as the UK's vaccine programme continues to roll out successfully and EU countries loosen their restrictions. Video: Reuters
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system intercepts rockets fired by Hamas. Video: IDF
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres virtually addressed the UN Security Council on Sunday. Video: UN
Launching more barrages overnight, Israel claimed to be targeting underground tunnels used by Hamas. With more than 42 Palestinians killed, the conflict has repeatedly escalated over the past week - the worst fighting in the region since Israel and Hamas’s devastating 2014 war. Video: Reuters
Police offices from across the world assess some of the actions of US police over the last few years. Video: New York Times
On March 12, 2020 the Irish government announced that a full lockdown would come into place and many employees have been working from home since, but once lockdown lifts will we see a return to the commute? Video: Enda O'Dowd
Several thousand people attended a demonstration in support of Palestine in Dublin city centre on Saturday, amid rising tensions and violence in Gaza in recent weeks. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Al Jazeera broadcast live the air raid boming of their and The Associated Press offices in Gaza City in an Israeli air raid that killed at least 10 Palestinians, mostly children. Video: Al Jazeera
With leadership changes at the Ulster Unionist Party and the DUP both leaders set out to unite and inspire unionism, but in very different ways. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Elon Musk has launched over 1,000 Starlight satellites in 2021 with his SpaceX program and the low orbit satellites are causing issues for astronomers worldwide. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Edwin Poots has defeated his constituency colleague Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, by 19 votes to 17, to succeed Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. Video: Twitter@edwinpootsmla
US president Joe Biden has hailed US health officials' decision to allow people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to no longer wear face masks or maintain social distance in most settings as "a great milestone." Video: Reuters
Police in Glasgow have released two men detained by UK Immigration Enforcement in a dawn-raid following a standoff with protesters who refused to let the Immigration van leave. Video: Henry Rayner/Reuters
Bell ringers at Christ Church Taney in Dundrum, Dublin have returned to bell ringing duties to celebrate the reopening of church services to the public there after a long break, due to Covid- 19. Video: Bryan O’Brien
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has issued a statement in the House of Commons, apologising on behalf of the British government for the events in Ballymurphy 50 years ago in which 10 innocent people were killed. Video: UK Parliament TV
Police officers from countries around the world give their views on policing in the United States. Video: The New York Times
Palestinian protesters have clashed with Israeli forces over the forced eviction of six Palestinian families from their homes in Hebron in favour of Israeli families who claim they used to live in the houses before fleeing in 1948. Video: EFE
An Australian Asian woman who woke up from surgery on her tonsils, speaking in what seems to be an Irish accent, has been documenting her experience on TikTok.
Teenage girls, rushing to catch a Dart train, are harassed, kicked, and spat on by a group of boys at Howth Junction in Dublin - and one of the girls falls under the train.
Australia’s renowned cliff diving champion Rhiannan Iffland has dived 18 metres from a hot air balloon over New South Wales’ Lostock Dam in the lead up to a new Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series season. Video: Red Bull
A judge-led inquiry has found that British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in an 1971 incident in Ballymurphy Belfast. Video: Reuters
Hostilities between Israel and Hamas continue to escalate, with at least 35 killed in Gaza and five in Israel in the most intensive aerial exchanges in years. Video: Reuters
Irish Times Education Editor, Carl O'Brien and Guidance Expert, Brian Mooney answer your questions on your CAO options.
The British government has used the queen's speech to confirm that "measures will be brought forward" to address the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Video: UK Parliament TV
The official trailer for Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, a look at the life and career of one of football's most successful managers. Video: Amazon Prime
Residents of Gaza City have awoken to scenes of damage and scattered debris after a night of fire exchange between Israel and Palestinian militants. Video: David Dunne
US regulators have authorised Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12, widening the country's inoculation program as vaccination rates have slowed significantly. Video: Reuters
After five months of strict lockdown Ireland saw the return of non-essential retail by appointment, hairdressers, barbers and the resumption of religious worship in churches. Video: Enda O'Dowd
Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has called for Dublin Airport to be renamed in honour of Seán Lemass, saying the former taoiseach's contribution to Irish society "is not celebrated as much as it should be." Video: Oireachtas TV
People crowd at vaccination centres across India, ignoring social-distancing guidelines as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the country. Video: Reuters
The Highlander is a big hybrid SUV with a sumptuous interior and is built to last. It is expensive, though, and faces serious competition from Korean rivals. Toyota's own RAV4 is better value if you don't need seven seats. Video: Neil Briscoe
Palestinians and Israeli police have clashed outside al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest site, in on-going violence in Jerusalem that has raised international concern. Video: Reuters
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has received the Covid-19 vaccine at the HSE operated Vaccine Centre in Cork City Hall. Video: Twitter/@@MichealMartinTD
The National Gallery of Ireland along with many other cultural institutions reopens to the public this Monday. During the closure staff have been busy behind the scenes, especially in the area of conservation. Video: Bryan O'Brien
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to press ahead with plans for a new referendum on leaving the UK after saying there was no doubt elections to the Scottish parliament would return a pro-independence majority. Video: Reuters
A podcast has generated new interest in the Irish National Invincibles, a splinter group of the IRB who had five members hanged and buried in Kilmainham Gaol in 1883 for murdering two senior civil servants in the Phoenix Park. Video: Bryan O'Brien
Kinsale has marked the ‘Darkness into Light’ suicide prevention fundraising event with a special community initiative involving 206 emergency vehicles who paraded through the Co.Cork town in the rain just before dawn. Video: Jakub Walutek
Thousands of historical photographs have been converted to colour, thanks to ‘Old Ireland in Colour’, a project that combines digital technology with historical research by professors John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley of NUIG. Video: Bryan O'Brien
