President Michael D Higgins has defended his use of the government jet, claiming he would travel by electric car or boat if he had the choice.

Donald Trump has arrived at the Metropole Hotel ahead of his one on one meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will again insist Ireland's Brexit backstop position cannot be changed in private meetings with EU leaders today - just 33 days out from the EU-UK divorce.

Pope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator priests and not just words of condemnation.

Poland's prime minister has cancelled plans for his country to send a delegation to a meeting in Jerusalem after the acting Israeli foreign minister said that Poles "collaborated with the Nazis" and "sucked anti-Semitism with their mothers' milk".

The Tanaiste has assured that the Government is negotiating for the best outcome possible to protect Irish interests.

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

Ahead of the Singapore summit, no one can know what Pyongyang’s ‘real’ intentions are. However, we can look inside the North Korean society for clues, says Katharine HS Moon.

The assertion by the two Korean leaders, Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, after an unexpected meeting on Saturday that North Korea is committed to “complete denuclearisation” and that a North Korea-US summit must be held offers a ray of hope in a dark, sometimes impenetrable situation.

The desire for unity is common for North and South Koreans although the visions to achieve it differ ahead of this week's summit.

Later this month Kim Jong-un of North Korea and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet for the first time at the “truce village” of Panmunjom for talks aimed at extending the recent détente on the Peninsula.

From academic prowess to cutting-edge research, Ireland’s young women are an impressive bunch, writes Niamh Hennessy.

The Taoiseach has been criticised for speaking on behalf of Scotland during an EU summit.

All 28 EU leaders are meeting for the first time since the UK voted to leave the EU today.

Airline leaders from around the world will gather in Dublin for a major summit beginning on Thursday.

Climbers are making good progress on Mount Everest and the first group could reach the summit as early as Thursday, following two years of disasters on the world's highest mountain.

A summit to deal with the refugee crisis is being planned by the European Union’s executive.

Eurozone leaders have been called to an emergency summit on Monday as finance ministers failed to make any progress in resolving the Greek impasse.

IN 10 days’ time, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo will be marked. That great and brutal event was one of modern Europe’s defining moments and is still regarded in some countries’ military histories as one of the continent’s first concerted responses to tyranny.

Tens of thousands of people have protested against free trade and climate change ahead of the upcoming G-7 summit in Germany.

Longford man Paul Devaney caught the mountaineering bug by accident on a holiday trek to see Mount Everest in 2005. Nine years later he is back in its shadows but this time preparing to climb the highest peak on the planet as part of the seventh and final leg of an amazing journey around the world’s most challenging mountains.