The Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney will be presented with options for Ireland's reaction towards Russia this evening.

A 27-year-old Italian man has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning his entire family, leading to the deaths of his grandparents and an aunt and leaving five others in hospital.

A deadly chemical was in the container from which a Croat war criminal drank in a United Nations courtroom, a Dutch prosecutor said on Thursday, as an independent investigation into the dramatic death of Slobodan Praljak moved forward.

Two women suspected of fatally poisoning the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un were trained to coat their hands with toxic chemicals then wipe them on his face, Malaysian police have said.

Margaret Jennings says almost 5,000 children under the age of 10 ingested a poison in the home last year — usually either a medicine or household cleaning product.

Gardai have issued a poison alert to dog owners in the South East Clare, living close to the Limerick border, after poison was reportedly found in sausage meat along walking routes.

An alleged serial killer accused of drugging and murdering four men he met on gay websites has been charged with attacking eight others.

A computer geek has been found guilty of trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad.

The death of yet another white-tailed sea eagle by illegal poisoning was yesterday described as a “major blow” to the project to reintroduce the protected species to Ireland.

More than 720 cases of children being poisoned by liquitabs have been reported to the National Poisons Centre in the last three years.