Tánaiste Simon Coveney has appealed for fairness after a failed local Fine Gael revolt to remove embattled south Dublin Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey as a party general election candidate.

John Pender, 53, from Shankill, Dublin was stabbed to death in the early hours of Friday morning last in the Pogs Old Irish Rock pub in Fuengirola, Spain.

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A round-up of the latest motoring news from the past week. 

Latest: The principal of a south side Dublin school says it would be "devastating" if its playing fields have been sold.

Parents and the principal of a school in south Dublin are battling to stop its playing fields being sold.

Were you shopping in Deansgrange on Tuesday just after lunch?

More than half of all vehicles booked in for the NCT last year failed to make the grade.

Two of the country’s busiest NCT test centres are opening on a 24-hour basis in a bid to tackle waiting lists of up to six-months in some locations and concerns one in every 10 vehicles is using an out-of-date safety cert.

Ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday, Jonathan deBurca Butler asks three foreign dads living in Ireland what it’s like to rear children here.

A man who robbed a Brazilian escort in a Dublin hotel room and put a knife to her throat has been sentenced to three years in prison, with the final 18 months suspended.

Sometimes the Irish soccer team have fans diving for cover behind the couch, but not Dubliner David Feeney.

WE’VE all heard the saying that opposites attract but, according to relationship experts, there are some fundamental topics which couples should agree on.

Gardaí in Dublin are dealing with two multi-vehicle crashes on the northside and the southside of the city.

FORMER judge and politician Declan Costello was a great Christian and a man who had offered Ireland a new vision for living, mourners at his funeral were told.

Dublin: Information security company Espion opened new offices in Deansgrange, Co Dublin, yesterday.

A Chinese man who bribed a former Department of Justice employee to issue visa extensions to immigrant students in a "highly lucrative scam" has been jailed for two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenage boy, who was found guilty of assaulting a female garda after he began making “rude gestures”, has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence at the Dublin Children’s Court.

THE family of Kiva Humphries, 16, from Deansgrange, Co Dublin, yesterday issued a fresh appeal for help in finding a donor as the risk of her catching a fatal infection increases on a daily basis.

A teenage boy has been remanded on bail pending sentence after he was found guilty of assaulting a female garda after he began making “rude gestures”.

A dispute over new work practices has disrupted postal deliveries in several affluent areas of south Dublin today.

PRIVATELY contracted driving testers began work yesterday hoping to knock more than 3,200 drivers off the test backlog over the next month.

Five men arrested during a foiled armed raid on a bookmakers remain in Garda custody tonight.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested five people following an attempted robbery at the head office of a bookmakers' firm in the Deansgrange area of the city last night.

The atmosphere crackled with excitement – and one million volts of electricity - during an experiment displayed at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition’s opening ceremony today.

THE financial services regulator is to host a series of public information sessions at libraries in the Dublin area over the next two months.

DISCOUNT retailer Lidl has been given planning permission to build a store in a green belt area just outside Ardee, Co Louth after councillors agreed to materially contravene the county development plan.

THE military conflict in the Middle East poses no threat to the Republic of Ireland’s European championship qualifiers against Georgia and Albania.

Gardai in Dublin arrested two men last night following a drugs seizure in Dun Laoghaire.