Children as young as 12 used to collect drug debts, meeting hears

An organisation made up of public and private companies and State-backed entities aimed at promoting business between Ireland and Saudi Arabia has pulled out of a business event in Riyadh next month.

Proclamations about the quasi-monarchical scope of his power speak only of Trump’s panic and growing desperation, writes Elizabeth Drew.

US President, Donald trump, and North Korean Dictator, Kim Jung Un, met today for historic peace talks in Singapore.

Latest: British Prime Minister Theresa May has wished Enda Kenny all the best describing him as a strong and consistent friend of Britain.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today attend a meeting of EU heads of state, the first to not include Britain, for crunch talks that are set to be dominated by border security, rumours of an EU army, migration, the Apple tax crisis, and the Brexit fallout.

Údarás na Gaeltachta is holding crisis meetings with the directors of a plastics company that was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and then jobs minister Richard Bruton in December 2014.

More than a million people in Britain have now signed a petition calling for a second referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted his health was not the reason he missed a key eurozone meeting of finance ministers.

Pope Francis has met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, in an historic development in the 1,000-year-old schism that divided Christianity.

The European Central Bank is ready to act quickly to boost anaemic inflation in the Eurozone, its president said yesterday, offering the strongest hint yet that the bank will unveil fresh stimulus measures at its December 3 meeting.

Sweden has introduced border controls, as a high number of refugees look to repatriate there.

The leaders of China and Taiwan have met for the first time since the end of the civil war 60 years ago.

Thousands of tourists in Rome have been kept out of the Colosseum by a union meeting, prompting the culture minister to vow measures to make sure it does not happen again.

People will have to present identification to apply for tickets to attend future meetings of Cork City Council under new security arrangements agreed last night.

A local authority meeting was interrupted twice last night when anti-water tax protestors refused to sit down in the upper gallery of Cork’s City Hall.

French president François Hollande met Pope Francis amid tensions in his private life over a gossip magazine’s report about an alleged affair with an actress.