Rachael Dervin, 29, was last seen on James Street, Dublin 8 on Saturday.

Up to €2bn may now be provided over the next four years to the new homes and property development sectors by alternative lender Castlehaven Finance, says the firm’s regional manager John ‘Paco’ Fitzgerald.

Gardaí in Ballyfermot are asking for help to find a man who was last seen in Dublin city on Tuesday.

Some locals in the Liberties in Dublin have raised concerns about graphic images being displayed outside a sex shop.

Latest Pamela Reddin has been located safe and well.

The State has been ordered to pay the legal costs of a severely visually impaired man after he won a High Court declaration concerning the State's duty to vindicate his right to vote privately and without assistance in referendums and elections.

Threats to cut the heads off Jews were allegedly made by a 39-year-old man dressed in dark robes and carrying the Koran who appeared before Cork District Court today.

A severely visually impaired man has claimed his right to vote in secret has been breached by the State’s alleged failure to provide an appropriate mechanism allowing him do so.

What Ireland has is vibrancy... But business needs to be minded, or it will go elsewhere again, writes Gerard Howlin

Suppose same-sex marriage is not compatible with God’s law?

Today one Irish lady in New York is celebrating a special birthday.

A 62-year-old man has died following a collision between a car and a pedestrian in Dublin city centre this morning.

Taxi drivers are calling for safer car models to be introduced to protect them from attacks.

Gardaí are investigating an attempted car-jacking in Dublin this morning.

A driver in Cork City has made one of the most horrendous attempts ever at parking their car.

A leak on a water main at James Street in Dublin city centre has been repaired and normal water supply has been restored.

Two men are to appear in court in Dublin again on Friday charged with the possession of two handguns in the south inner city.

Two men arrested in Dublin by police probing dissident republicanism will appear in court today.

Two men have been arrested in Dublin by police probing dissident republicanism.

A shop assistant remains in a critical condition in hospital following an armed robbery in Dublin city centre over the weekend.

As a former member of Fianna Fáil, I was interested to observe the reaction of its leadership and grassroots members in the wake of the Mahon Report.

I was horrified to read (in a recent Irish Catholic) that, yet again, there's a question of abortion in Ireland being looked into by Minister Reilly's ‘expert group’.

THE Supreme Court has overturned a court order requiring the Garda Commissioner to give a publican security footage taken from his burnt-out Donegal premises and forensic reports related to the premises.

A mother-of-two is to face trial for attacking a garda who had boiling oil thrown on him.

In the North, army bomb disposal experts were this afternoon dealing with a suspicious object at James Street in Newtownards.

FOUR ex-servicemen, who had to vacate a half-way house opened in Limerick for Defence Forces pensioners, have been offered alternative accommodation by unnamed property owners in the city.

A HALFWAY house, which has helped retired members of the Defence Forces in Limerick adjust to civilian life, is being forced to close.

The trial of four gardaí accused of breaking into a flat and assaulting its then-teenage occupant has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A garda sergeant has today said that a member of her unit accused of trespass and assault admitted lying about being in a Basin Street flat a week after the alleged incident.

A FIRM of solicitors retained by a bank to act for it concerning substantial loans to property developer John Kelly and struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne is being sued for €23 million over an alleged failure to ensure the bank had proper security related to those loans.

A woman has been granted bail after she was charged with attacking a garda who was doused with boiling oil in Dublin on Sunday morning.

A 29-year-old woman is appearing in court charged in connection with an attack on a garda in Dublin yesterday.

THE decision by Tim Lucey to allow the sale of Cork city’s waste refuge to be sold to a private operator is one which I deeply oppose.

Muddy mayhem reigns again at top UK festival Glastonbury with torrential downpours expected to sweep across the 900-acre site today.

A “SUFFOCATING” security operation in Dublin city centre for the visit of the British monarch has disabled potential flashpoints with republicans.

Four gardaí have gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for allegedly forcing their way into a flat without a warrant and beating up a male occupant.

A homeless man who started fires at St James Hospital, Heuston Station and James Street causing the evacuation of the station and cancellation of the Luas has been given a seven-year sentence.

A Dublin man who punched a garda’s teeth loose while they were playing on rival football teams has been jailed for 18 months.

A Dublin father of one has received a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform 240 hours community service for repeatedly stabbing a man in the face with a fork.

A man who entered a hospital armed with a knife and threatened to “torture, kill and have sex with” a doctor giving him a psychiatric assessment has received a partially suspended seven-year sentence.

The replacement for disgraced Northern Ireland Assembly Member Iris Robinson was named today.

POLICE have identified the killer of a nine-year-old boy who was raped and strangled 24 years ago.

A teenage boy appeared in court today in connection with the stabbing of a garda in Westport in Co. Mayo, in the early hours of Sunday morning last.

A teenager is due in court this morning in connection with the stabbing of a garda in Co. Mayo in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A teenager was tonight charged over the stabbing of a member of the Gardaí.

A Garda was in intensive care today after being stabbed in the stomach while on duty.

GARDAÍ were last night due to continue questioning a man in connection with the suspicious death of a woman in Dublin’s south inner city.

A woman found unconscious in a house two days ago died in hospital tonight.