A school caretaker has gone on trial accused of stealing fruit that was meant to be given to pupils as part of a healthy food initiative.

A woman has died after being hit by a car in Dublin today.

A judge has ruled the dark tinted windows on rugby player Cian Healy’s Land Rover were unsafe.

Gardaí are appealing to witnesses to a hit and run near Raheny in Dublin last Saturday night.

Gardaí at Blanchardstown are investigating an incident which occurred at Laurel Lodge Road, Castleknock at approximately 2.20am this morning.

April 2014 is a very special time for the Irish people, but particularly the people of Clontarf, as it is the celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of The Battle of Clontarf.

Cork City Council has given the go-ahead for a major c 200,000 sq ft office development plan at Albert Quay, Cork.

A student who caused a taxi driver to crash his car by choking him from the back seat has avoided jail after agreeing to pay €8,000 in compensation.

An explosive device was rendered safe in Raheny earlier this evening.

A local Real IRA boss was being questioned last night in relation to yesterday’s gangland murder of veteran republican and criminal Eamon Kelly.

North Dublin's water supply is said to be safe to drink and cook with once again.

Tankers are in place in parts of Dublin today as water disruption in the northside of the capital continues.

A woman, believed to be in her late sixties or early seventies, has died in a car crash in Dublin.

I am writing to you about the letter in your paper recently (Jan 17), which said that a 4 1/2 day week would solve unemployment.

The overall vote turnout to elect Ireland's ninth president is understood to have been just under 50% when polls closed tonight.

Polling stations across the country are reporting a "steady flow of voters", but turnout is so far down on the General Election earlier this year.

TRESSA REEVES, whose son was illegally adopted and registered as the natural child of the adoptive parents, says she has received no assistance from the Adoption Authority more than a year after her case was exposed.

A top marketing executive, who attacked a judge at an awards ceremony at the Mansion House in Dublin, has been spared a criminal record and jail sentence after paying €20,000 to charity.

A top marketing executive, who attacked a judge at an awards ceremony at the Mansion House in Dublin, has agreed to pay E20,000 to charity to escape a criminal conviction.

Gardaí in north Dublin are investigating after a suspicious device was found in the garden of a house on the Howth road.

A Dublin man was sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today for the manslaughter of an armed supermarket raider in 2008.

A major Garda investigation is underway following an overnight 'tiger kidnapping'.

A jury today acquitted a 22-year-old Dublin man of murder but found him guilty of the manslaughter of an armed supermarket raider.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering an armed raider has begun a third day of deliberations at the Central Criminal Court.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with the murder of an armed supermarket raider has been sent home for a second night having failed to reach a verdict in the Central Criminal Court today.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering a supermarket raider has been told it can now return a majority verdict.

A jury in the trial of a 22-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a supermarket raider has been sent home for the night having been deliberating for three hours and nine minutes in the Central Criminal Court today.

The jury has retired in the trial of a 22-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering an armed robber as he tried to make his getaway.

A Dublin man stole €850 in an armed robbery at a supermarket minutes before he was stabbed to death the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The State Pathologist has said a Dublin man, stabbed as he attempted to make his get away following a supermarket raid, died from three deeply penetrating stab wounds to the chest which pierced both his lungs and caused him to bleed out.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of a supermarket raider told gardaí he stabbed him twice with a knife to calm him down but he never meant to kill him the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A jury at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder heard he stabbed the raider of a supermarket seven times as he was attempting to make his getaway after a robbery two years ago.

There was condemnation today after a failed gun attack in Dublin.

REPORTS that Senator Ivor Callely has been paid more than €80,000 since 2007 in respect of travel expenses from an address in west Cork to Leinster House is a further example of the greedy behaviour that vexes voters so intensely that it cost Peter Robinson and many other outgoing MPs their parliamentary seats in the recent British general election.

A FIANNA Fáil senator is at odds with his own website after claiming extensive mileage from his home in Cork – despite telling constituents he lives in north Dublin.

TRESSA REEVES was born Teresa Mary Donnelly in England to an Irish father and an English mother.

A 15-year-old Dublin boy has been detained for six months for an arson at a school building which caused nearly €115,000 worth of damage.

THE BIG freeze may have given way to torrential rain but the country’s drinking water supply is still under threat due to burst mains pipes and over-usage during the cold spell.

Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery at a Dublin petrol station last night.

A Finglas heroin addict has been jailed for five years for robbing €10,000 cash from a betting agent clerk as she walked to the bank.

A Pakistani national who received oral sex from a 15-year-old boy on a city bus has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The "front man" of a complex fraud in which front companies and false identities were used to scam almost €1m from leading businesses has been given a four-year sentence by Judge Tony Hunt.