As the public is urged to remain indoors to limit the spread of Covid-19, buildings all around the country have gone green to mark St Patrick's Day.

I’m trying to figure out whether St Patrick’s Day means anything to me at all, writes Caroline O'Donoghue.

The Taoiseach's annual breakfast meeting at the American Vice President's home will be closed to media this year.

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said we need to be guided by the advice of health experts when it comes to deciding whether to host St Patrick’s Day this year.

Tourism Ireland CEO, Niall Gibbons, confirmed to the Irish Examiner that efforts are underway to turn Dublin's dividing river green, with help from city plumbing authorities in Chicago.

YOU’RE going to need something today. A tonic of some description. The weather in March, so far, has been as if winter slept in late, has arrived into the office at 11am, and is now acting fierce busy.

Our relationship with the shamrock is older than our relationship with Christianity, writes Fiann Ó Nualláin.

RP O’Donnell left America to make West Cork home. As he marks another Patrick’s Day here, he’s convinced we should leave the parades to the diaspora.

From New York to Budapest, you can celebrate St Patrick’s Day almost anywhere in the world. Ciara McDonnell helps you get planning for next year

This week an array of Irish Government ministers have travelled to all corners of the world to promote Ireland.

Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent in Washington DC

Leo Varadkar met CEOs from both sides of the Atlantic at an event at the US chamber of commerce in Washington DC this morning.

Rollerskaters in Paris carrying green glowsticks, cyclists in Amsterdam with green-illuminated wheels and start-up entrepreneurs pitching for funding in a green-lit ice hole in Finland - all part of St Patrick's Day celebrations globally.

The Taoiseach will begin a series of engagements in Washington today, aimed at deepening Ireland and the EU’s relationship with the United States.

Cancer awareness campaigner Vicky Phelan is to be Grand Marshal for the St Patrick’s Day parade in Kilkenny.

Targeted investment in promoting regional St Patrick's celebrations will drive tourism outside the country's major urban centres, according to Fáilte Ireland.

Every single EU capital will be visited as the government ups the diplomatic offensive in the days before Brexit.

It is another indication that Irish influence in America is on the wane that the St Patrick’s Day parade in Washington DC has been cancelled.

More than 20 drunken revellers were arrested during St Patrick's Day celebrations in Belfast, the PSNI has said.

Mariah Carey has teased fans eagerly awaiting new music with an Instagram of herself in a recording studio.

NBC's Saturday Night Live show has made headlines for their St Patrick's Day sketch last night.

Thousands of people are cheering on the St Patrick's Day parades all over the country today.

We've seen some inventive ways of proposing but this tops them all for imagination alone.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has begun the final day of his St Patrick's Day visit to the US.

St Patrick's Day around the globe.

Thousands of people are expected to turn out for Patrick's Day events all over the country today.

Given the recent resurgence in pilgrimages, it is strange that there is little or no interest in Irish people visiting Banwen in Wales. It is ‘Man Geni Padrig Sant’, as the Welsh put it — the birthplace of Saint Patrick.

Original sin, sexual repression, and eternal damnation were incorporated into a grim theology of fear that led Irish Catholics to believe they were born bad, writes Joyce Fegan.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has met Vice President Mike Pence in a behind-closed-doors encounter at his residence in Washington.

Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day. We will celebrate it with everything from a modest, dignified enthusiasm to an excuse for a no-holds-barred knees-up.

Gardaí are reportedly planning a counter-terror operation for St Patrick's Day in Dublin city centre.

Netflix has plenty of great Irish films on offer so you can still feel a spark of patriotism.