The future of a €36m R&D campus planned for a site near Dublin Airport is uncertain after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for the project.

Catherine Murphy has never been backwards about coming forwards on dodgy political dealings.

The NTA has rowed back on its initial plans, and the route will remain a two-way road.

A teenage boy has been injured in a hit and run in Dublin.

A trucker told gardaí it was an accident after he was charged with dangerous driving causing death in connection with a fatal collision between a heavy goods vehicle and a pedestrian in Dublin.

The 21-year-old pedestrian was taken to Beaumont Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The man, who was arrested on Friday, remains in Garda custody.

21-year-old Gerard Whyte from Ballymun died in the collision.

Officers are still in the process of talking to witnesses in a bid to establish the circumstances of the incident, in which a man in his 20s died.

The pedestrians, in their 80s, were taken to hospital.

Gardaí have arrested two men and recovered cash following a burglary in which an elderly couple were assaulted.

A Dublin creche has been fined €1,000 and allowed to stay open after a staff member was secretly filmed “rough-handling” and shouting at children.

One man was killed and another seriously injured in two separate car accidents over the bank holiday weekend.

A creche facing trial under child protection laws following an RTÉ expose will show almost 40 hours of secretly filmed video evidence in their defence.

Two Dublin men who "stomped" on the head of their victim while he was lying on the ground leaving him with a serious head injury have avoided a jail term.

Irish Rail bosses are facing threats of a second 48-hour strike unless they open a new round of talks with trade unions over pay cuts.

A man has appeared in court charged in connection with a crash that led to the death of a male pedestrian in North Dublin over the weekend.

One man has been arrested after detectives chased armed robbers who held up a bank.

A young couple from the UK who were in Ireland to attend a wedding died yesterday when their rental car was involved in a collision with a lorry in South Kerry.

There is flooding in Dublin, Wicklow and Westmeath this evening following heavy thundery showers.

There are reports of localised flooding on Dublin's northside.

One hundred new healthcare jobs are being created in Dublin with the opening of a new 200-bed facility, it has been revealed.

A man who stabbed a schoolboy in an unprovoked attack and lacerated his liver has been sentenced to three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 42-year-old woman is in a serious condition in hospital after a crash in Dublin this morning.

Three men were arrested today after gardaí stopped two cars in north Dublin and seized a handgun and ammunition.

A HIGH Court judge has referred to the DPP details of a personal injuries appeal hearing in which a “mixed boxing” enthusiast claimant was filmed competing in four separate events while receiving medical treatment for alleged lower back pain arising from a road crash.

WITH an infant and a 5-year-old to care for, Kathrina Bielecke had not factored in a house move just two months into her maternity leave.

MORE than 240 people are to be moved into emergency hotel accommodation for five weeks at a cost of about €200,000 after a High Court judge ordered the evacuation of an apartment complex last Thursday due to serious fire safety risks.

A former gambler caught transporting €1.5m worth of cannabis to earn money to pay off his debts has been given a five year sentence.

Water supplies that have been disrupted in parts of Dublin by a burst watermain should be back to normal by 8pm this evening.

A man is due in court in Dublin this morning in connection with the seizure of over a million euro worth of cannabis.

ONE man has been charged, one is due before the courts today and another is being questioned after four separate weekend seizures of cannabis, valued at more than €1.6 million.

A MAN aged in his 20s was arrested yesterday in connection with a €1.2 million cannabis seizure in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have today seized drugs worth more than €1m.

DESPITE a continued fall in the price of crude oil, motorists are being warned to expect a continued “slow increase” in the price of fuel because of fluctuating currency values, as well as the recent introduction of a carbon tax.

A Vietnamese man who converted a rented house into a cannabis growing factory has been given a suspended sentence on condition that he leave the country immediately.

Rush-hour motorists face traffic chaos today after severe thunderstorms flooded roads across the capital.

A heavily pregnant woman has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for robbing a young woman as she walked home from a night out last year.

Sentencing of a 16-year-old boy, who was part of a Traveller feud-related riot which erupted outside a Dublin garda station last October, has been adjourned until June.

A 29-year-old industrial window cleaner has been jailed for the mandatory five years for having a sawn-off shotgun in a stolen car he was driving.

A 29-year-old industrial window cleaner might be spared the mandatory five-year sentence for having a sawn-off shot gun in a stolen car he was driving.

SECURITY staff representatives yesterday expressed fears that a cash-in-transit worker could be killed if the recent upsurge in raids continued.

An armed gang opened fire as they held up a cash-in-transit van today – the seventh such robbery this year.

GARDAÍ dramatically arrested three innocent people in north Dublin yesterday shortly after an armed raid in Co Louth.

In view of the concern over the presence of chromium 6 (“the second most dangerous carcinogen,” according to your report, June 26) in a waste site at Haulbowline in Cork harbour, should it also be of concern that chromium 6 has been used for many years in two mandatory experiments in Leaving Certificate chemistry and at least one experiment in Leaving Certificate biology?

A schoolgirl accused of attacking a man, who was cut and scarred when he tried to protect a tourist allegedly assaulted by a teen gang, has been served with a book of evidence and sent forward for trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A teenage girl, who took part in a violent gang mugging of a young Chinese woman, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A crash involving three cars close to Dublin city centre has led to serious traffic delays this afternoon.

The truck that overturned truck at East Wall Road near the Point Depot has been cleared.