Almost half of schools have teaching vacancies and more than nine-out-of-10 principals reported recruitment difficulties in the last six months.

They left red handprints on the walls of Junior McDaid House in Derry.

Irish tourists in Sri Lanka have been advised to stay indoors after a wave of bombings on Easter Sunday killed 290 people and left more than 500 injured.

Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) president Joe Killeen has said his union will stand with its new members on securing pay equality, whether through “negotiation, court challenge or industrial action”.

Hollywood actor George Clooney plans to return to Ireland next year following a brief visit to meet his cousins over the Easter break.

Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired in Dublin and Dundalk.

Keith McClenaghan was also charged with two counts of possessing home-made explosives with intent to endanger life.

Police in the North have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with criminal damage at a church in Antrim.

Firefighters in West Donegal are trying to control a large gorse fire.

Up to 17,000 hospital support workers are being balloted from today on strike action.