Senator David Norris has said he is legally prevented from publishing the letters of clemency he wrote on behalf of his former partner, who was accused of statuary rape.

The lights will go off at Government buildings, Leinster House, the Customs House and the Four Courts at 8.30pm tonight to mark Earth Hour.

WILL it be a case of back to basics, and the way it was, at the one-time west Cork home of billionaire businessman Dermot Desmond?

DINERS at the Four Seasons in Dublin will be digging into their food by candlelight only tonight as the hotel’s restaurant switches off its lights for a major global environmental campaign.

A FLOATING pub and restaurant on Dublin’s River Liffey has been granted a seven-day licence in the Circuit Civil Court.

A teenager who took part in a burglary of the offices of the Department of the Environment, in the Custom House in Dublin, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

Massive new housing developments in Dublin’s docklands moved a step closer today after the Government cleared the way for a new €6.5m tunnel to be built under the River Liffey.

Tommy Barker, Property editor

Electricity provider Energia, whose parent company is Viridian, will be awarded a contract to supply the majority of the power required by the Department of Finance for hundreds of state-owned establishments.

Energy provider Energia is to be awarded a contract to supply power for the Department of Finance to hundreds of State-owned establishments.

A campaign group handed over a 10,000-strong petition to the Government today warning them to back away from constructing a motorway near the historic seat of the High Kings of Ireland.

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has congratulated Mary McAleese on her appointment for a second term as Ireland's President.