CATHAL Coughlan has never been one for tiptoeing gently into the night, writes Ed Power

President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes lessons of doomed and delayed housing regeneration schemes have been learnt.

Recently, it emerged that legal proceedings are being brought to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Irish tenants drawn from around 130,000 low income households.

WHAT’S the opposite of regeneration?

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced by 12 months the four-year prison sentenced imposed on a Dublin man who falsely accusing a priest of child sexual abuse.

CHILDREN living in Limerick’s toughest estates will get sucked into vicious cycles of violence and crime unless they receive help under the city’s regeneration scheme, warned its chief architect yesterday.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a Dublin man against his conviction for falsely accusing a priest of child sexual abuse.

A priest who was falsely accused of rape pleaded for leniency for the Dublin city man who claimed he had abused him as a child.

A flat complex in Dublin’s north inner city is to be redeveloped as part of a €180m housing project, it emerged today.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese honoured Dublin community spirit at the weekend when she visited Fatima Mansions, a one-time social blackspot housing estate.

A NEW era began yesterday for one of Dublin’s most deprived inner-city areas when the first phase of a €200 million facelift of the Fatima Mansions flats complex was unveiled.

A new era began today for one of Dublin’s most deprived inner-city areas when the first phase of a €200 facelift of the Fatima Mansions flats complex was unveiled.

The trial at the Central Criminal Court of a 37-year-old Dublin man accused of murder has heard he stabbed his neighbour.

A High Court judge has said during a manslaughter sentencing that he has been "haunted by the conditions of the cruelly-named Fatima Mansions" during the course of the trial which was heard at the Central Criminal Court last February.

A jury was today shown interview videos of a suspect crying, shaking and apologising on the day he was arrested for murder in late 2002.

PLANNERS have learned from the mistakes of the past when designing social housing, said Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal, Noel Ahern.

Construction workers have begun demolishing the Fatima Mansions flats complex in Dublin's south inner city as part of plans to regenerate the area.

THE six-day St Patrick’s Day Festival began in Dublin yesterday with what is hoped to be an annual event: a talking shop in Dublin Castle about what it means to be Irish.

A £100m pound plan to regenerate Dublin's Fatima Mansions housing complexes will be unveiled by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the Lord Mayor of Dublin Maurice Ahern later today.