The Latest Breaking News from The Department of Foreign Affairs

The Department of Foreign Affairs has issued an alert to anyone travelling to France as protests continue in the country

Tanaiste Micheal Martin told Sinn Fein’s Chris Andrews there are no plans to roll out an awareness campaign warning people not to hand over money or personal details

The woman is understood to have fallen over railings in a horror incident that has resulted in hospitalisation

The Irish Mirror has learned that the tourist suffered serious head injuries in the fall in the centre of Genoa in the north west of the country over the weekend.

The TD has warned that the Passport Service must ensure they avoid undue delays for those with travel plans

Foreign Affairs Minister, Micheál Martin, confirmed today that 50 people have already been moved to the safer small country of Djibouti, away from the main fighting

Catherine and John McLoughlin, from Co Mayo, were told by officials that high-level meetings were taking place to consider the evacuation of their daughter Kathy, her husband and two young children.

Ministers approved the deployment of an Emergency Civil Assistance Team mission to assist with the process following a cabinet meeting on Sunday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has published guidelines on its website as people begin to make travel plans for this summer and have warned tourists about the "significantly larger measures" of alcohol sold in Spanish bars

The Taoiseach’s backroom team also had more prosaic requests including a new whiteboard, a TV wall bracket, a new desk because the height of an existing one wasn’t 'workable', and getting a personal picture hung.

Senior Chinese and Filipino diplomats were meeting in Manila on Thursday to review their relations amid thorny issues, including Beijing's alarm over a Philippine decision to allow the US military to expand its presence to a northern region facing the Taiwan Strait and escalating spats in the disputed South China…