The gunman who killed 49 people in a shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub was not directed by a foreign terror group but was radicalised domestically, according to the FBI.

Tens of thousands of people have held up candles around a lake in the heart of central Orlando as the names were recited of each of the victims who died in the Pulse nightclub massacre.

The gunman who killed 49 people in a nightclub in Orlando apparently went on Facebook to measure the shockwaves the shooting was generating.

"Trying and trying and trying to do the right thing is ultimately just as important as getting the outcome in the end."

Orlando gunman Omar Mateen apparently made a series of Facebook posts before and during his attack on a gay nightclub, raging against the "filthy ways of the West" and blaming the US for the deaths of "innocent women and children".

The US now has a unique opportunity to shift the burden of proof about the necessity for stronger gun control regulation, writes Frederic Lemieux

Omar Mateen’s alcohol use and conflicted sexuality are at odds with the terrorists’ religious credo, but losing in Iraq and Syria, it is desperate for a win, say Lori Hinnant and Sarah El Deeb

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump is to meet the National Rifle Association (NRA) to discuss ways to block people on terrorism watch lists or no-fly lists from buying guns.

German federal investigators are looking into a Duesseldorf bank account held by the father of the gunman who attacked an Orlando nightclub, and are in contact with their American counterparts, a police spokeswoman said.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called the Orlando shootings "an outrage".

Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer has said he is uplifted by the way the community has come together during a city-wide prayer service for the 49 people who were killed in a nightclub shooting.

Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

A group of a dozen comfort dogs and their handlers have travelled from Illinois to Orlando to offer what help they can to all those affected by the shooting.

No state can always protect its people from acts of evil mania. But the US chooses to put the means of perpetration within easy reach, writes Gerard Howlin

One of the victims of the shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub wrote a poem as she lay in a hospital bed on Monday night.

The FBI is investigating reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen was a regular at the gay nightclub where he killed 49 people in America's worst mass shooting.

Federal investigators are examining possible motives for the massacre of 49 people in a Florida nightclub - the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

The names of the victims were read out as a choir sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow.

Barack Obama will travel to Orlando on Thursday to pay his respects to the families of the victims of Sunday's gun massacre which left 49 people dead.

Parisians showed solidarity with the victims of the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando lighting up the Eiffel Tower in rainbow colours on Monday night.

Hundreds gathered in Dublin City Centre last night for a silent vigil in memory of the victims of the Orlando shooting.

A pro-Brexit campaign has sparked a furious reaction by drawing links between the killing of at least 50 people in a US nightclub and the EU referendum debate.

US authorities are investigating whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public.

A gunman who pledged his allegiance to Islamic State before he massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in the US had “strong indications of radicalisation”, the FBI said.

The head imam of the Islamic Centre Ireland said he stands with the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando shootings.

IT would be foolishly romantic to imagine that humanity’s base, destructive instincts can always be controlled or even modified as, in recent days and months, hatred seems to be roaring ever louder around the world.

It’s unlikely that Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in a nightclub at the weekend, was directly linked to IS. Lack of gun control and mental illness may be factors, says Peter Apps

We live in a time of mass shootings and suicide attacks, participants in an invisible war that can break out at any time as it did in Orlando nightclub at the weekend, writes Amy Wilentz

The gunman in the Orlando nightclub attack that killed 49 people had "strong indications of radicalisation" and was likely inspired by foreign terrorist organisations, the head of the FBI has said.

A vigil is taking place in Dublin city centre this evening to remember the victims of yesterday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida.

The hashtag #TwoMenKissing is trending on Twitter as those online begin to weigh in on Sunday's Pulse nightclub shooting.

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has described the Orlando murders as an "attack" on both LGBT people and humanity itself, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.

Donald Trump says there are thousands of people living in the United States "sick with hate" and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub.