Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee said there are currently ‘no evacuation routes recommended for Gulf countries’.

On the Department of Foreign Affairs website, travel advice for Iran, Israel, Iraq, and Lebanon is now classed under "Do not travel", its highest level of warning. It also advises Irish citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE. 

Tweed has asked the High Court to strike out a defence of truth being pleaded in the defamation case

Craig Ballentine (33), from Cookstown, was arrested in the UAE in October over an online review he posted.

Niamh Mulreany (27), Scarlett Row, Essex Street West, and Kirstie McGrath (32), St Anthony’s Road, Rialto, both Dublin, had brought an appeal over the High Court’s dismissal of their challenge to their prosecution for that alleged refusal

Addressing those involved in organised crime, Justice Minister Helen McEntee said: ‘You will face justice.’

Simon Harris will also attend a meeting of the European Council during his visit to Brussels.

A ban on the 28-year-old Roscommon woman leaving the United Arab Emirates was lifted on Wednesday following diplomatic intervention

Simon Harris said Tori Towey will be taken to the airport by the Irish embassy "as soon as she is ready to go"

The 28-year-old has been banned from leaving the United Arab Emirates after she was charged with attempted suicide and consuming alcohol in Dubai

Natasha ‘Tasha’ Keane was rushed to hospital after the incident a week ago with a 'severe head injury and lacerations to her liver'

A Carlow woman has suffered serious injuries in Dubai after falling two storeys from a yacht

Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney is meeting with potential investors in the Gulf this week during visits to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber claimed there was no proof showing a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5 degree.