The search for a missing passenger jet that lost contact with radar between Paris and Cairo yesterday is intensifying today.
There were 56 passengers and 10 crew on board EgyptAir flight MS804 when it went missing just over three hours into its four-hour journey towards Egypt.
The airline confirmed last night that the wreckage of missing plane had not been found, just hours after saying debris discovered in the Mediterranean belonged to the aircraft.
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Commuters in Dublin are facing disruption again this morning as Luas drivers hold another strike day.
Today's stoppage will mark the 12th day of industrial action in a long-running row over pay.
The strike is expected to impact on about 90,000 people in the capital.
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Former minister Brendan Howlin is expected to be elected unopposed as leader of the Labour Party later today.
With just hours remaining to the close of nominations, it appears that outgoing deputy leader Alan Kelly has failed to secure a seconder to allow him to contest the leadership.
Joan Burton resigned as Labour leader last week after the party shed 30 seats in February’s general election.
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Cigarettes in the UK will be sold in standardised green packaging with explicit images from today, under new rules designed to cut the number of smokers.
But the delay in government formation means that the planned introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products in Ireland has not yet come into force.
Campaigners have urged Minster for Health Simon Harris to follow through on the commitment.
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The SDLP has announced it is quitting the power-sharing administration at Stormont to form part of a newly-established opposition.
The decision comes a week after the Ulster Unionist Party made a similar move, meaning the new government could now be made up of just the DUP and Sinn Féin.
Meanwhile, the Alliance Party has indicated it might not take-up the executive's contentious justice ministry.
