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AstraZeneca said it told the European Commission and member states last week that the batch required testing and would be delivered soon. Photograph: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg

AstraZeneca has slashed the number of Covid-19 shots it will deliver to EU nations this week by almost half, causing a hold-up that the company claime(...)

Saddlehill, Inishtioge - ceramic art from Michael Holden

There’s something inspiring about how Irish creatives have responded to lockdown in the last 12 months. All around the country people who might have b(...)

The M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, home of the Baltimore Ravens NFL team,  last week became the state’s third mass vaccination site. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch

The snow is still on the ground on the bright spring morning as cars begin to trickle into the car park at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The(...)

Kieran Cotter is looking forward to spending more time with his wife Brigid and their sons.

Tributes have been paid to one of the country’s longest serving RNLI volunteers who is stepping down after almost half a century of life saving includ(...)

WInston C: trainer Keri Brion  plans to give the Eclipse Award winner  a first run in 16 months in the Grade Three Limestone Lad Hurdle at Naas.

US trainer Keri Brion has got a crash-course in Irish weather but hopes conditions allow for a potential landmark moment at Naas on Sunday. Brion, wh(...)

Health workers treat new Covid-19 patients within the Intensive Care Unit of the Alberto Sabogal Hospital, in Callao, Peru on January 15th. Photograph: Luis Angel Gonzalez/EPA

Two million people have now died worldwide with coronavirus, figures show. The tally by the Johns Hopkins University passed the threshold on Friday, (...)

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California. Photograph: Ariana Drehsler/AFP/Getty Images.

Almost a quarter of the world’s population will not have access to a Covid-19 vaccine until 2022, according to new research. Experts from the Johns H(...)

Penguins at Fota are set to benefit from the donation of  fish to the wildlife park. File photograph: Matt Kavanagh

They may be facing the prospect of British prime minister Boris Johnson ordering British gunboats to patrol waters that they have fished in for years,(...)

Young rowers from Skibbereen Rowing Club undertake a training session on the River Ilen at the end of a day of sunshine in West Cork. Photograph: Andy Gibson

Not long ago rower Tim Harnedy sat down to lunch with brothers Paul and Gary O’Donovan. Paul had just completed a 50km session on the River Ilen, whic(...)

About 30-40 per cent of people in Ireland have high blood pressure, but many don’t know about it, the HSE says.

The latest iteration of an “ideal” blood pressure – a level of 120mm of mercury for systolic pressure, the top number – that people are urged to achi(...)

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