“Do it now to limit the spread and keep it down and catch it before there’s more community spread,” Dr Yvonne Williams told RTÉ's Today with Séan O’Rourke.

The Sheriff Street memorial to the former Dubliner has been discovered this evening with painted black glasses and black marks on its cheeks.

The woman was found, in a freezing and very distressed state, outside the GPO on O’Connell Street shortly after 9pm by a homeless volunteer who runs a soup kitchen for the homeless every Thursday night.

Jim Gavin will have the right to bring goods into Dublin through the city gates, without paying customs duties

Fans of the men’s and women’s historic All-Ireland Senior Football winning teams have been left outraged over a ticketed homecoming event after tickets sold out within minutes.

The families were initially told it will take anything from two to six weeks to refurbish the flats leaving the families with nowhere to go.

19 families, incorporating 60 people, remain homeless three days after the fire due to having no electricity and water issues.

“I was told by a fireman who attended here on Saturday that we are all lucky to be alive," said one resident, after the fire in Marmion Court Flats, Blackhall Street.

Five-in-a-row winning Dublin manager Jim Gavin brought along the Sam McGuire Cup and some of the winning team to mark the unveiling of an All Ireland victory mural in Ballybough today.

Emergency Services from Phibsborough were called to the scene on Queen Street, after an electrical junction box caught fire.

A permanent mural in honour of Dublin Senior Football team manager Jim Gavin is to be erected in the heart of the capital city.

Great grand-father, Paddy Hansard, suffered serious head and spinal injuries in the alleged attack.

“Retribution is not the way to deal with the savage attack on a great grandfather,” which has left him battling for his life, members of the public were told at a candle light vigil held for him in Dublin north inner city.

A former Lord Mayor of Dublin and a leading environmentalist believe the introduction of a tourist tax in the city would benefit the entire country.

Dublin City Council is moving to evict up to 50 social housing tenants who have failed to pay rent.

Gardaí are continuing to investigate the circumstances around the defacing the recently erected statue to singing legend Luke Kelly.

A statue of the singer Luke Kelly has been vandalised on Dublin's Sheriff Street.

Two men, including the grandson of former Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, have received sentences totalling 14 years at the Special Criminal Court after they were caught with four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade in a densely populated area of Dublin city.

Latest: Two men who were sleeping rough are reported to have died last night.

An urgent call for O negative blood donors has been made by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service after supplies dwindled to just four days because of the loss of a full day’s collection due to Storm Ophelia.

A young homeless woman in her 20s is recovering after being attacked with a firework in Dublin's north inner city.

Inside the Custom House, yesterday morning, were Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, and the chief executives of the 31 local authorities, sitting around a boardroom table, writes Joyce Fegan.

The Government has come under renewed pressure to bring in radical measures to tackle the housing crisis after the number of homeless burst past the 8,000 mark in July.

An emergency motion has been put forward to open a book of condolences for three homeless people who died in the past week.

Update - 3.01pm: The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has extended his sympathies to the families of the two homeless people who died yesterday.

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said we have been left with no alternative to private operators picking up our bins.

A man has been charged with knowingly possessing four kilograms of TNT in central Dublin, while another man has been charged with IRA membership, at a bank-holiday Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court.

St. Patrick's Institution in Dublin's north inner city will close on Friday.

There was a heavy garda presence in Dublin’s north inner city yesterday as authorities fear more gun attacks following the shooting of Trevor O’Neill in Spain.

A bill tackling the illicit street sale of prescription drugs has been passed in the Seanad.

The prevalence of prescription drug-dealing and the severe lack of drug-free recovery centres in Dublin’s north inner city are some of the challenges facing the area, according to its community leaders.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his ministers have heard calls for urgent action in Dublin’s inner city amid claims the area has been left to become a “social apartheid” after decades of neglect.

Dublin Central has changed from a four-seater to a three-seat constituency since 2011 and with four prominent sitting TDs, not to mention a number of high-profile candidates hoping to be elected, the race to the Dáil will certainly be interesting.

Hundreds of new beds are available to homeless people since Jonathan Corrie’s death galvanised us into action. But the number of people on the street is still growing, writes Elaine Loughlin

A senior Sinn Féin TD has rejected claims his party is suffering from an internal bullying crisis, after a former Dublin councillor claimed he was forced out of the party just days after a separate scandal in Cork.

The first of the Irish funerals for the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, take place in Dublin today.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to search for a group of teenagers who attacked a man with an intellectual disability.

More than 700 tourists were robbed by muggers and pick-pockets last year, with the majority falling victim in Dublin city centre.

The recession is not ending — it is getting worse, according to one of the biggest providers of hot meals for homeless people in Dublin.

A baby is born addicted to alcohol or illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine every 10 days here.

Dublin lord mayor Christy Burke is considering running as a Dáil candidate for the mooted Independents alliance headed up by Finian McGrath, Shane Ross and Michael Fitzmaurice.