Italy is reporting 250 new deaths related to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Irish bank and transport shares most exposed to the potential economic fallout from the coronavirus fell sharply for a second successive session, as an Italian official said it may need to call on the EU to offer leeway on budget targets due to the outbreak.

City have fallen foul of Uefa’s curiously subjective FFP structures and now the roof is falling in, writes Simon Curtis.

An ongoing quest for secure tenure and fair rents. Demands to build more and better housing. Social deprivation and mental health problems.

A paper published in Current Biology examines the extinction of a colourful little bird which, until recently, thrived in the eastern US. With the appalling environmental catastrophe enveloping Australia, home to 56 of the world’s 370 parrot species, this account of the Carolina parakeet’s demise is timely.

Shannon Airport is confident of a return to passenger growth this year after taking a significant hit from the grounding of Boeing's 737-Max aircraft and a Brexit-related downturn in UK visitors to Ireland during 2019.

An alarming cultural and political craze in the closing years of this decade has been the enthusiasm for the kind of virtue signalling expressed in demands to sanitise history

The Government here asked the Czech authorities in the late 1980s to take steps to ensure that explosive material manufactured in Czechoslovakia did not fall into the hands of subversive groups, including the IRA.

Ryanair's Chief Operations Officer Peter Bellew has told the High Court that Michael O'Leary roared and shouted at him and said "You are fucking useless," at meetings of the airline's senior executives.

It’s that most magical time of the year, as the yuletide song goes, and football certainly gave us a good dose of that old black stuff yesterday.

Germany and Holland secured their places at Euro 2020 from qualifying Group C as Northern Ireland were left to try their luck in the play-offs.

Progressive farming of goats could be a surprising method of combating climate change, writes Sabine Homann-Kee Tui

In conversation with Hilary Fennell.

Shannon Airport has said a new route to Vienna is "a vote of confidence in the region".

When does sport become science fiction? When does running, this most natural and elemental form of exercise, become less about competition and more about experimentation?

Ryanair has said it is not interested in taking over any airline — including those of travel company Thomas Cook, which has gone into liquidation.

The Government is facing calls to change laws to ban co-living units and stop them becoming "the norm" after a divisive "box apartment" development with rents of up to €1,300 a month was given the green light.

A new climate study has shown the projected climate change of major cities across the world by 2050 and the results are startling.

Antiques and garden furniture at Woodward’s sale, says Des O’Sullivan.

Food news with Joe McNamee.

According to Mercer's new survey, Hong Kong is the costliest place in the world for expats.

German airline Lufthansa will speed up cost cutting to try to boost productivity at its low-cost Eurowings subsidiary as it battles to defend market share in a competitive European market, chief executive Carsten Spohr has said.

Oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel yesterday, after US President Donald Trump said he would hold an extensive meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit later on this month.

Condé Nast Traveler named the scenic town among the 25 most beautiful in Europe.

Taking a look at what to expect from tomorrow's Euro qualifier against Denmark.

Noel Burke was born in London to Sligo parents.

Niki Lauda, who won two of his world titles after a horrific crash that left him with serious burns and went on to become a prominent figure in the aviation industry, left a legacy which went far beyond his Formula One achievements.

Professor Alan Ahearne told RTÉ Radio’s News at One that it is going to take “a long time” to solve the problem.

In every generation there is a new Frankenstein.

Vienna takes the number one spot when it comes to ‘most livable city’, but why is that, ask Dan Buckley.

The pioneering Vienna model of housing is the subject of a month-long exhibition which opened yesterday in Dublin.

The star of Stephen Kenny’s Ireland U21 soccer team, Connor Ronan, has assured Ireland fans that he has no intention of emulating Declan Rice by defecting to his homeland, England.

The cost of transporting the Taoiseach and other ministers around the globe on the Government jet reached almost €1m last year at an average cost of over €18,600 per trip.

Eden Hazard scored twice as Belgium recovered from a blunder by Thibaut Courtois to beat Russia 3-1 last night and start European Championship qualifying campaign on a high.

Budget airline Ryanair has taken full control of Laudamotion, an Austrian-based carrier set up by former Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda.

The biggest danger we face is not a straightforward revival of fascism, but rather a creeping shift in traditional conservatism towards the extreme populist right, says Michael Burleigh.

A new walking tour of Dublin city is to start today, run by homeless people.

LAST Sunday, the 100th anniversary of the armistice of the war to end all wars, our news was full of quasi-religious, militaristic memorialising, writes Gerard Howlin.

In this exclusive extract from her book, Untrue, Wednesday Martin introduces us to the Skirt Club.

One of the highlights of a great American film The Graduate occurs during a conversation between a young man who is wondering about his future after graduation and his father’s business partner who offers career advice to the worried youngster. It can be shortened as follows: “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?” Older readers might remember the 1967 film fondly.

A lot riding on next week’s Opec meeting in Vienna.