Violent assaults spiked in Cork city in recent weeks, with one death and four men critically injured.

Physical, verbal, and sexual attacks on hospital nurses rose again last year.

Computers and mobile phones are not the only devices likely to be targeted by cyber-criminals, with webcams, televisions and even fridges at risk, Interpol has warned.

Dog owners are being urged to keep their animals in check after 13 sheep were killed in three separate dog attacks over Christmas.

Only "emergency personnel" will remain.

Ethnic Rohingya militants in western Burma have launched overnight attacks on more than two dozen police and border outposts, leaving 71 people dead, the government said, in a significant escalation of their armed struggle.

The death toll from twin blasts in the north-western town of Parachinar climbed to 45 overnight, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan on Friday to 61, with several others in a critical condition, officials said.

The Garda’s security service is examining whether any “pre-planning” for the London attacks occurred in Ireland following claims from a former Muslim radical that a second of the three terrorists had stayed here.

Weaponising vehicles can be stopped if the political will exists, writes Leonid Bershidsky.

A campus “crow scare” is over after animal welfare inspectors rescued a baby jackdaw.

Some primary school teachers are having to wear shinguards and hats to protect themselves from physical assaults in the classroom, writes Joyce Fegan.

Even in an age almost inured to the savagery of terrorists or dictators who use chemical weapons against their citizens, the Palm Sunday attacks on two Coptic churches in Egypt, that left 44 people dead and scores more injured, seem exceptional.

Donald Trump has made an unsupported assertion that terrorist acts in Europe are going unreported.

The Czech president has linked recent attacks in Europe to the continuing influx of migrants escaping war-torn, poverty-stricken countries.