The stun gun was found in a bag handed over by Divyesh Patel to a security guard. The accused had told him the weapon was inside the bag.

Lidl has confirmed plans for the roll-out of a further 50 stores across the island of Ireland.

House prices close to Dart stations and Luas stops in Dublin are now €129,000 higher than average prices in the city, a new survey has found.

A British aid worker in southern Bangladesh has said smoke from burning villages is blackening the horizon as hundreds of thousands of the ethnic minority Rohingya flee violence in Burma.

Gardaí in Ballymun have issued an appeal for information on the two cars used by the gunmen who shot dead an innocent mother-of-six and a young locksmith there last week.

Sixteen people spent the night in a hotel, after their homes were damaged in an apartment complex fire in Dublin.

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A man has died after falling from an apartment in north Dublin.

Tributes have been paid to a "highly talented" Cork pilot who was tragically killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

An eerie silence hung over the scene of the London helicopter crash where mangled metal and the remains of a burnt-out car told of the horrors which unfolded in central London today.

Businessman Ben Dunne confirmed yesterday that his gym business recorded an operating profit of around €1.7m last year and is due to open three new gyms in Ireland and Britain this year.

A Polish man serving a nine-year sentence for slashing a prostitute during a Dublin burglary is wanted in his home country on robbery charges.

The Iraq Inquiry met behind closed doors today to hear evidence from the general who ran the British operations in the conflict, it has been revealed.

French soldiers successfully defended two fishing boats from capture by pirates in the Indian Ocean, and 11 men suspected of involvement in the failed attack were pursued at sea and captured, officials said.

A British shipping union chief called for tougher action against piracy after a British-owned vessel was seized by Somalians in the Gulf of Aden.

CARLISLE Heath & Fitness Club, the Dublin gym owned by Ben Dunne, saw its profits almost double last year.

British construction and engineering firm Carillion today emerged as the possible bidder behind an approach for troubled rival Mowlem.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said yesterday that any abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops would be “rooted out” amid accusations his government had “lost its grip” on Iraq policy.

A ‘MICROBEAM’ that zaps individual cancer cells with a stream of particles could revolutionise radiotherapy, it was revealed yesterday.

A huge snowstorm took a bite out of spring across the US today, burying emerging flower buds, cancelling baseball games and snarling the morning rush hour.

More than 25 anti-war protesters have been arrested as they held a sit-in demonstration outside a major strategic military base in Britain.

Comedy actress Pat Coombs has died at the age of 75.

British troops played a ‘‘very significant’’ part in the rapid advance of the Northern Alliance forces across Northern Afghanistan, Geoff Hoon, Defence Secretary, said today.

An ex-paratrooper with experience of leading troops in the Balkans and the Gulf War is commanding a British military exercise in the Middle East.

Early tests of a revolutionary drug and radiation cancer treatment invented by British scientists have proved dramatically successful, it was revealed today.

Pacific rower Jim Shekhdar said a school of tuna fish saved his life.

A schoolgirl has become the first person in Britain to have a new ear constructed from part of her ribcage.