A Dublin City Councillor is calling for "flotels" to be used to alleviate Dublin's housing crisis.

Eamon Ryan and Eoghan Murphy mix-up could see interesting poll results, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Councils are ignoring planning guidelines that keep fast-food premises away from schools. Just one local authority has written the policy into its development plans.

A Dublin City Councillor wants communities to be able to close off their roads for play afternoons for children.

All four Dublin authorities said yesterday they were urgently seeking to strike contracts with private landlords across the city to provide social accommodation, in a new sign of the housing emergency in the region.

Irish scientists have developed a €25 bowel cancer blood test kit that can spot the potentially lethal disease at an early stage.

A Dublin City Councillor has called for an all-out ban on busking with amplifiers.

All findings of corruption made by the planning tribunal against former assistant Dublin City and County Manager George Redmond have been quashed.

The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog.

The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog in Co Meath.

The Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin is downplaying fears that services will need to be scaled back by councils who cut the property tax.

Dublin City Councillors are set to vote for a property tax cut of 15% next year.

There is quiet confidence but no certainty of success on the part of the Irish delegation in Geneva ahead of Uefa’s long-awaited announcement this lunchtime of the host nations for the European Championship finals of 2020.

A High Court judge has given a mother of four on social welfare another week before deciding if a bank should be allowed seize her €700,000 property.

The Dublin City manager will return to face questions from the Oireachtas Transport Committee today, as the Garth Brooks fallout rumbles on.

Dublin City manager Owen Keegan has been asked to return before an Oireachtas committee today to respond to claims by the stadium director at Croke Park that he was personally told by Mr Keegan that five shows would be allowed.

For just a couple of hours last night, it looked like 400,000 people were all going to get their wish and go to one of five Garth Brooks concerts. Dublin City Council said it would allow all five performances to go ahead — as long as two were matinees.

As Garth Brooks’ record run at Croke Park went from five nights, to three, to none, to fiasco, the hospitality industry has been left reeling with losses estimated at €50m and Ireland’s reputation in ruins.

Garth Brooks is sticking to his guns over his five-night concert ultimatum, as some Croke park residents are going to the High Court in a bid to block the three licensed concerts.

The prospect of Garth Brooks playing any shows in Croke Park this month appeared to recede last night with a fresh court bid to stop the three licensed shows and Brooks sticking with his desire to play all five concerts.

Dublin City Council has said production at one of its water treatment plants has begun to improve.

Dublin is getting a new city manager.

Family, friends, and sporting stars of past and present turned out for the removal of Gaelic football legend Kevin Heffernan in Dublin last night.

Dublin City Councillors are congratulating reps for the Smithfield Horse Owners Association.

As 30,000 fans cheered on the Republic of Ireland in Poznan last night, yet another Airtricity League club was forced to withdraw from the domestic top flight due to a lack of support.

City and county councils are biased in favour of granting planning permission to developments due to the revenues completed projects bring in, a new report concludes.

Greyhound Recycling and Recovery is to hire 50 new staff in Dublin in the coming months, the company has announced.

The wife of rogue financier, Breifne O’Brien, has taken a case for unfair dismissal against the Dublin taxi firm which the couple once owned.

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY manager Niall Moyna was happy with this result, although it gives him a fixtures headache.

Lawyers for the Mahon Tribunal are in the High Court trying to halt an action for costs by the former Dublin City and County Council official George Redmond.

Residents of Clontarf in Dublin have succeeded in their campaign to block proposed flood defence plans for the area.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor at the centre of an alleged blackmail plot has denied in court that he was taking cocaine on the night in question

ASK Phillip ‘Philly’ Hughes if it might be disrespectful to call him a journeyman and the Shelbourne striker cheerfully demurs.

TONY O’CONNOR spent most of his football life associated with the red and black stripes of Bohemians during a decorated playing career.

ANDY GRAY and Richard Keys might be stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to the role of women in football but the vast majority of fans attending games here have long moved on according to a leading female Irish referee.

Water restrictions in Dublin city and county, as well as Kildare and Wicklow, are likely to continue for the rest of the week.

SEPARATED by the full width of the front row at Dublin Coroner’s Court, the two women in Gerry Ryan’s life were united yesterday through their shared love of the 2FM broadcaster and the dramatic circumstances of his death.

A Dublin City Councillor will appear in court in December charged with assaulting Health Minister Mary Harney in West Dublin earlier this month.

A former Fine Gael politician appeared at the Dublin District Court this afternoon to face charges of taking corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990's.

The Environment Minister is welcoming a move to allow Dublin City Councillors to see a copy of the contract between the Council, Covanta and the developer of the controversial Poolbeg Incinerator.

Dublin City Councillors are to receive a copy of the contract between the council and Covanta - the developer of the controversial Poolbeg incinerator in Ringsend.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has warned that Dublin City Council’s decision to extend the multi-million euro contract for the Poolbeg incinerator, which has already cost at least €120 million, poses a “very significant” financial risk to the taxpayer and the state.

PRIVATE waste operators want a contract for the planned Poolbeg incinerator publicly released after it emerged that a “get out” clause exists between city chiefs and the company behind the waste facility.

THE ‘big freeze’ last winter cost Dublin City Council €500,000 in overtime, water tankers and repairs, it has emerged.