Brexit emphasised the importance of Ireland’s need to diversify its market, as 80% of flour is imported from the UK, ministers said.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin is due to meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House in March for St Patrick’s Day.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said Ireland should not play the matches and Israel should be ‘given the red card’.

Seamus Culleton has been in a Texas detention centre for more than four months despite having a work permit and being married to a US citizen.

The inquest has heard from a detective constable who was part of the first 48-hour search for Noah Donohoe in 2020.

‘There is no regrets,’ Detective Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland said.

Mark Hehir, who is originally from Limerick but now lives in London, was fired by Metroline after he chased down a thief.

Representatives from Meta, Google and TikTok will appear before the committee on Wednesday afternoon.

Status yellow rainfall warnings were issued for seven counties in the Republic and for all counties in Northern Ireland.

Mr Nkencho, 27, the eldest of five siblings, died after being shot by gardai outside his west Dublin home in December 2020.

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that Niall McLaughlin will receive the award.

Some businesses in Enniscorthy have said it could take ‘three weeks’ to recover after the flooding brought by Storm Chandra.

A student from Minneapolis thanked protesters who attended the gathering in Dublin.

Tanaiste Simon Harris defended the EU’s response to the US over Greenland and said it was a ‘wake-up call’ for Europe.

Helen McEntee said: ‘We cannot join a structure that essentially will try to mimic or undermine the UN Security Council.’

‘To tell us to get on with it isn’t good enough,’ the Northern Ireland First Minister said after an East-West Council meeting.

‘Anything Putin is considering joining with the word peace in it does not sit well,’ Simon Harris said on Thursday.

Simon Harris said it was ‘not an exact science’ to model the potential impacts on Ireland.

The Ryanair chief has become embroiled in a spat with the owner of the social media platform X.

The Ryanair chief said Europe needed a more ‘belligerent’ approach to the US administration.