The days are getting colder, the evenings are getting darker and television listings are upping their game - let’s face it, it’s practically Christmas.

The lights will stretch over 4.5 kilometres and it will take over 200 hours for the lights to be installed throughout the city.

DublinTown are introducing a new waste collection scheme in order to clean up the city's streets.

Ireland’s railways have ground to a halt today after workers followed through with strike action to shut the network.

Businesses in Dublin say the Irish Rail strikes will cost the city up to €25m.

With no sign of a last-minute intervention, 48 hours of strikes on the country’s railways affecting up to 160,000 passengers will begin tomorrow morning.