At five months pregnant, and completely alone, an 18-year-old Pamela Bangura fled Sierra Leone to seek asylum in Ireland.

A verdict of accidental death was recorded after a 51-year-old fisherman on board a vessel in West Cork lost his life following an accident involving a trawler door.

A man who began raping his daughter when she was nine and later claimed she had initiated the sex has been jailed for 11 years.

A 46-year-old former journalist has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering her flatmate in their South Dublin home.

A 46-year-old woman on trial, charged with murdering her flatmate, told gardaí that voices in her head made her stab him.

Caroline O’Doherty speaks with an Irish aid worker in one of Africa’s most volatile regions that has been hit with an outbreak of the ebola virus

The internal squabbles of the EU seem petty in comparison with the calamities in the countries fled by many of the migrants who try to get to Europe.

Trócaire is urging students to sign out of their online profiles for 24 hours to raise money for communities and schools in Sierra Leone.

In the rapidly expanding domain of global cyber security breaches, 2017 set a new bar for computer network attacks.

Over one million Trócaire boxes will be delivered to homes and schools across the country this week.

Professional rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan has played for Munster, Ireland and the Lions and has recently renewed his contract with Worcester Warriors. He will bow out of the pro-game

Munster props James Cronin and Brian Scott, Connacht second-row Quinn Roux and Leinster’s Jordi Murphy make their first starts in the famous colours of the Barbarians who face Tonga at Thomond Park tonight (7.30pm).

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

A devastated mother whose teenage son was stabbed to death in an attack believed to have been filmed on Snapchat has spoken of her anguish as it was revealed no one has been convicted over his killing.

Roger Federer booked his place in the second round of the US Open but serious doubts remain about his fitness after he needed five sets to defeat American teenager Frances Tiafoe.

Churches across Sierra Leone have held special services in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the death toll had risen to nearly 500.

The death toll from Sierra Leone's mudslides is now above 400, the United Nations said.

Surging mudslides and floodwaters in and around Sierra Leone's capital Freetown have killed more than 300 people, many of them trapped as they slept.

More than 200 bodies have been brought to a morgue in Sierra Leone's capital following heavy flooding and mudslides, officials said.

The brother of a woman missing alongside her young son following the Grenfell Tower blaze has gathered with friends to pay tribute to her.

LATEST: One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including another death, the country's health minister said.

The Government is looking at methods of justice used in post-apartheid South Africa and after Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile to address the mother and baby home scandal here.

A nurse travelling back from Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone concealed the fact that Pauline Cafferkey had a raised temperature indicating she was infected with the deadly virus, a tribunal in England has found.

A nurse who helped fight Ebola faces being struck off after being accused of recording an inaccurate temperature on an airport screening form for a medic who had contracted the virus.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey "potentially put the public at risk" through her actions as she returned to the UK with the virus, a misconduct hearing has been told.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been accused of allowing an incorrect temperature to be recorded during a "chaotic" screening process on returning to the UK.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is facing a disciplinary hearing linked to her return to the UK with the virus.

Pauline Cafferkey has spoken of her stress over misconduct allegations which remain unresolved more than 18 months on from her return to the UK with the virus.

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A Manchester United fan who travelled from Sierra Leone to watch the game against Bournemouth only for the match to be abandoned has landed a ticket to this weekend’s FA cup final.

Manchester United’s Premier League game with Bournemouth on the final day of the season was abandoned after security officials discovered a suspect package that had been left during a training exercise held at the Old Trafford stadium four days earlier.

IN 1899, Hans Christian Mortensen, a Danish schoolteacher, made little rings from a sheet of aluminium and fitted them to the legs of starlings; bird-ringing had been invented.

A former Labour and Sinn Féin Dublin City councillor has pleaded guilty to making hoax telephone calls, a court has heard.

The World Health Organization is warning that the zika virus may yet spread across all of the Americas, bringing with it the inability to procreate safely. Peter Apps reports on the crisis

Brought up as the eldest of seven, Clár was always interested in words. 

A raft of senior Department of Foreign Affairs officials have been promoted and nominated as ambassadors and heads of mission.

Concern Worldwide’s Anne O’Mahony feels there are reasons to to be optimistic about 2016 but also sees many challenges ahead, especially if we all don’t work together.

A nurse quarantined at a New Jersey hospital because she had contact with ebola patients in West Africa is suing the state governor and health chiefs, saying they held her illegally against her will.

The international community was content to ignore the ebola epidemic until it was so widespread it no longer could. By then, it was too late to avert a major catastrophe, writes Samuel Kargbo