Britain's King Charles met Catherine Connolly on the first day of her three-day official visit to England.

Catherine Connolly is making her first official visit to England since her inauguration in November.

The Irish president is making her first visit to England since her inauguration in November.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he is ‘deeply concerned’ about the risk of wider conflict in the area.

It comes as Tánaiste Simon Harris on Thursday formally opened the new offices of the Irish Embassy in the United States in Washington, DC.

Staff at the Irish Embassy in Kyiv are "working from home" as tensions escalate between Ukraine and Russia