A controversial visitor centre, planned for the Dublin Mountains, will not have an adverse impact on protected wildlife and habitats.

The development of the site beside St Anne's Park led to protests by locals last year.

The reaction in New Zealand to the All Blacks’ exit from the Rugby World Cup at the hands of England is best summed up by the Herald on Sunday’s fully black front page.

There was a shocked reaction in the political world during the week when details of a protection racket emerged in court.

According to new research, one in five properties in the capital has been targetted by burglars since 2009.

Bus and rail drivers want company backing to pull services if there are incidents of violence.

Update 7.09pm: Lawyers for the young model who claims Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe assaulted her in a Johannesburg hotel have said that her family has been approached with an offer of money to drop the allegation.

New Zealand assistant coach Ian Foster says he would not like to be a victim of the newspaper clown treatment given to British and Irish Lions boss Warren Gatland.

A Florida police officer shot a therapist in the leg who was looking after a man with autism while he was lying in the street with his hands up.

Muslim leaders in Scotland have invited Donald Trump to visit mosques there when he travels to the country to open his new golf course later this month.

Never give up.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe arrived home from a weeks-long holiday looking sprightly, quashing rumours that he had a heart attack.

Zimbabwean officials have dismissed speculation about president Robert Mugabe’s health after the elderly leader stumbled in public.

Even Dermot Weld, at least privately, must have found it highly amusing.

 

Independent News and Media say there will be no more than 30 jobs lost as part of a restructuring at the group.

"I'm looking forward to getting back on radio and that will be in four weeks time,"

“A truly terrific goal from some...um...bog-trotting side in Ireland somewhere."

A journalist has settled her defamation action against her former employers, Independent Newspapers.

Six people have been arrested after trouble flared in Glasgow city centre following the referendum result.

The Central Remedial Clinic in Dublin has dropped its Santa Bear charity appeal.

There is likely to be more consolidation in the Irish newspaper industry over the next five years, according to Independent News & Media chairman, Leslie Buckley.

It has emerged that the man who's body parts were found at a recycling plant in Ballyfermot is most likely a foreign national.

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Thirteen jobs are to be lost as part of continued restructuring at Independent News and Media (INM) which will see the editorial staff of the Sunday World and Herald newspapers merge.

Soaring temperatures brought the crowds flocking to Punchestown yesterday and the thermometer wasn’t the only thing cracking, as the turnstiles had to cope with the biggest opening-day attendance at the festival.

Organisers of the Garth Brooks concerts have finally submitted a planning application for the gigs.

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It is reported an elite squad of gardaí is being put together up to tackle notorious gangland bosses across Dublin.

The Criminal Assets Bureau could make a claim on €1.25m found in Limerick at the weekend.

USA: A crook got away with a wad of notes from a Florida petrol station but was caught after making a stupid mistake.

Dublin manager Anthony Daly has unsurprisingly named an unchanged team for Sunday's Leinster SHC final against defending champions Galway at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

Dublin manager Anthony Daly has resisted the temptation to tinker with his team for Sunday's Leinster SHC semi-final against Kilkenny at O'Moore Park (throw-in 3.50pm).

Meath manager Mick O'Dowd has included two Championship debutants in his team to face Wicklow in Saturday's Leinster SFC quarter-final in Aughrim (throw-in 7pm).

A 106-year-old Australian woman has started dating a 73-year-old man.

Ian Madigan was named the Bank of Ireland Leinster Players’ Player of the Year at the annual awards ceremony in the Mansion House, Dublin on Saturday.

A High Court judge yesterday held that the former CEO of a provincial newspaper who lost his job last year is entitled to damages for the loss which he has incurred as a consequence of his wrongful dismissal.

A shark possibly 4.2m long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator.

It has been claimed that former Bohemians and Dundalk manager Sean Connor is currently living in financially-straitened circumstances in South Africa after being deported from Zimbabwe over visa complications.

Flinging mud across the equator at each other has long been a favoured pastime of the rugby media in Britain and New Zealand — but this week you can’t help but wonder if they’re simply looking for a distraction.

Gary Johnson has been described as the real “X factor” in this election race.

It is expected that redundancies at Independent News and Media will be voluntary, after a meeting of staff at the company’s headquarters yesterday.

Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan will seek to discover the full composition of the Charles Green consortium which is set to take over at Rangers.

Work has stopped on new reservoirs in Zimbabwe because builders have been scared off by mermaids.

Jonah Lomu has been admitted to Auckland Hospital but is reported to be in a stable condition.