The Central Bank has secured planning permission for a “monumental” €300,000 outdoor sculpture for a public space outside its €140m Dublin HQ.

IT’S soaring in popularity as an urban pastime and crane-counting was very firmly on the agenda when I took up a challenge to find out just how much I could pack into a 24-hour architectural and interiors fact-finding mission in Dublin.

LoyLap is looking to enter the US market with its cashless payment systems, writes Trish Dromey

Ambitious new €75m re-development plans for the iconic Central Bank building that includes a new 360-degree 300-seater rooftop restaurant and bar have been given the green light.

While politicians of all stripes line up to criticise the banks, Philip Lane, the Central Bank governor, has been reserved. So far, it seems to be working, writes Michael Clifford.

A group of sheds that have been transformed into the new O’Donoghue Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance at NUI Galway has been selected for a top architecture award.

A 'Repeal the Eighth' rally will take place in Dublin this afternoon.

Funeral arrangements are being prepared for devoted teenage sweethearts Gary Kelly and Delia Keary after they both lost their lives following a head-on road collision, last Friday.

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An anti-Trump demonstration is taking place in Dublin on Friday to coincide with the inauguration of the new US president.

With 2016 having one extra second on the clock there are dozens of ways to ring in the New Year around the country.

Update 4.54pm: A 17-year-old boy is planning to appeal the guilty verdicts handed down today for falsely imprisoning Joan Burton and her adviser in November 2014.

Plans to introduce a distinctive new 20p coin were shelved after it left consumers short-changed — a blunder which has turned out to be lucrative for some.

Thousands of anti-water charge protesters will descend on the Dáil later today to “bin the Irish Water bills” sent out by the utility.

A protest over the jailing of water protestors is taking place in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

Demonstrators involved in the anti-water charge protest during which Tánaiste Joan Burton was trapped in her car have said they are proud of it and would do it again.

A demonstration has been announced against the arrest of people in connection with the Dublin protest which saw the Tánaiste trapped in her car last November.

A second set of secretly-recorded conversations of former Anglo Irish Bank chiefs has been sent to the Garda fraud squad.

Marathon legend Dick Hooper believes there is “a golden opportunity” for domestic winners of Monday’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon with no elite foreign entries toeing the line due to budgetary constraints.

The Governor of the Central Bank has insisted there is no smoking gun in controversial taped conversations of former Anglo Irish Bank executives to suggest criminality.

Gardaí are continuing to question two men in connection with a serious assault in Dublin on Monday.

Gardaí are set to arrest two more people in connection with a serious assault on a homeless Polish man who was found dead in a bin lorry.

Gardaí were questioning two people last night in connection with the death of a homeless Polish man two weeks ago.

Gardaí investigating the death of a homeless Polish man are examining suspicions he may have been assaulted before he ended up in a large wheelie bin.

Fresh revelations in the Anglo-tapes scandal about Brian Cowen’s administration shows his party was willing to save the failing bank at any cost, his political opponents claimed.

The Irish relationship with drink has come in for a lot of criticism, not least in Des Bishop’s recent TV series. But how do young people treat alcohol in other countries? We sent reporters out with teenagers in six different cities to talk about alcohol, clothes and the opposite sex

A seminar on abortion is being held in Dublin today as pro-choice campaigners step up their nationwide campaign on reproductive rights for women.

Queues have formed outside the Central Bank on Dublin's Dame Street after a special Michael Collins coin collection went on sale.

The first of what it is hoped will be many thousands of Irish punts were exchanged at the Central Bank in Dublin yesterday.

The last Occupy protect camp in the country has been dismantled by gardaí and council chiefs.

Attackers have fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank and a police patrol in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the state news agency said today.

Members of the Occupy Dame St protest last night converged once more on Dublin’s Central Bank with the intention of resurrecting the camp which had been dismantled by gardaí earlier in the day.

The Occupy Dame Street camp in Dublin city centre has today been cleared by gardaí and councils chiefs.

A group of businesses have launched a campaign to get rid of Occupy Dame Street protesters who have been camped outside the Central Bank for four months.

A group of businesses have launched a campaign to get rid of Occupy Dame Street protesters who have been camped outside the Central Bank for four months.

The Occupy Dame Street movement is holding a protest in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

The latest in a series of protest organised by the Occupy Dame Street movement will take place in Dublin today.

Around 400 people were marching through Dublin city centre this afternoon in a protest against the EU/IMF austerity programme.

FOR a revolution, it’s a model of civic mindedness. No alcohol. No drugs. No noise. No trouble.

A BEAMING Sean Gallagher looked like he was high on Happy Pills.

EVERY day, at 1pm and 6pm, they gather for a general assembly.

A group of people protesting outside the Central Bank in Dublin for the past few days remain there this afternoon.

The Fine Gael/Labour government is being warned it faces a similar fate to the Fianna Fáil/Green coalition unless it U-turns on the issue of special needs assistants (SNAs).

TEACHERS, parents and resource assistants will march on Leinster House next week to demonstrate against “inhumane” education cuts affecting children with special needs.

Parents and teachers from across the country have been urged to join a national demonstration against special needs cuts.

GARDAÍ were last night continuing to investigate an attack on the constituency office of Minister Noel Dempsey in which the building was daubed with a misspelling of word “traitors”.

FORMAL talks get under way today on a bailout for Ireland with between 10 and 12 officials from the IMF beginning a trawl of the country’s finances.