Maternity hospitals – and at least one home – were busy overnight with deliveries of new babies

Images from celebrations at Dublin Castle, Howth and Dún Laoghaire

Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe

Television: Despite blink-and-it’s-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Year’s Eve special is much better than 2023’s

Colm Tóibín, Johnny Sexton, Sally Rooney and Graham Norton also feature in the top five

Close observers are struggling to understand the intensity of Israel’s focus on Jabaliya, an area that has become an unrecognisable wasteland of rubble

Lifting of controls at land borders will remove bottlenecks that often kept trucks loaded with goods stuck at border

Jeju air crash investigation ramps up as funeral procedures begin

All emotions serve an evolutionary purpose — the key is not to hide from anger, but to harness it productively

Those who challenged the existing consensus were routinely condemned as Thatcherite by commentators and union leaders who were comfortable with the failed status quo

I don’t really know what a new year in Australia might hold. It has a vast unfamiliarity to me that country itself still does

Tell Me About It: I moved to a far-flung place to be with the woman I fell in love with online, but now I’m wondering, ‘What have I done?’

Roots of the teacher-shortage problem and ‘out of field’ teaching go back decades

Some 800,000 people made cross-Border journeys by cruiser, bicycle or foot - a story that Waterways Ireland’s chief John McDonagh says must be told more

2024 Sporting Obituaries: Eugene ‘Pooch’ Davis (70) was one of the great characters of the League of Ireland, noted for his predatory poaching instincts

Merits of simple lifestyle changes to curb risk of dementia have never been so compelling

Of immediate concern is the ease with which Elon Musk’s limitless money has allowed him to buy his way to the pinnacle of political power

Unpublished Department of Education draft study finds a further 800 posts were occupied by teachers unqualified to teach subject

The Irish entrepreneur has been left with precious few assets, while funding for Rivada Space Networks’ multi-billion-dollar network remains uncertain

With numerous developments ongoing at the hospital and growing demand for its services, it’s an exciting time for Prof Sean Daly