A drag storytelling event at a Dublin library was cancelled due to degrading comments made online about performers and library staff.

Degrading and inappropriate comments on social media are being blamed for the cancellation of a Drag Story Time event in Dublin.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has moved to reassure homeowners in a southside development.

A swimming race due to raise money for Special Olympics Ireland has been cancelled due to E. Coli.

Hundred of events will be taking place across Ireland today to mark Earth Day today.

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A row has broken out between two local authorities over which should have ownership of the diaries of one of the leading figures of the 1916 Rising.

Movie director Neil Jordan has fired a fresh salvo in his planning battle with neighbour Robin Power over a contentious 11sq m bathing changing area built without planning permission.

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The government should follow the lead of Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council and ensure that new homes and commercial buildings nationally are built to passive house standards, according to the Passive House Association of Ireland.

There is a lot of furrowed browed tut-tutting about the rise of an unhouse-trained ‘nihilist’ left, writes Gerard Howlin

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s refusal to grant planning permission to build 164 houses in South County Dublin is to be challenged in the High Court.

There are five species of tern here, while Rockabill Island represent 80% of the roseate tern’s European numbers. It’s a conservation success story, says Dan MacCarthy

A temporary ban has been placed on three Dublin beaches.

Work should be clear to proceed on a redevelopment of the Dell computer plant in Limerick into a €300 million medical manufacturing facility after withdrawal of an appeal to An Bord Pleanála.

The State was owed €713m in development contributions by the end of 2011, but local authorities had to provide for the likelihood that more than a third of that total would never be paid.

The trial of four councillors accused of accepting bribes to rezone more than 100 acres of land has heard that the rezoning went against the advice of the then county manager.

The trial of four Councillors accused of accepting bribes to rezone over 100 acres of land has heard that the rezoning went against the advice of the then county manager.

A new chamber is to be built for councillors in a Dublin local authority because the current chamber is not big enough to accommodate extra members to be elected under new local government reforms.

For a relatively small population, we have excessive government that has been strangling our economy.

The director general of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) says there is no point in local authorities pressing for monies on developments that have not yet been built.

The taxpayer has footed a €31,000 bill for sending local government officials from one county council to a management course at a US university — with the body that collects the household charge paying course fees.

The highest household charge compliance rate is in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

The Department of the Environment has written to all county and city managers giving updated details of the sums deducted from their funding as a result of the non-payment of the €100 household charge.

Residents of a major apartment complex in south Dublin will be forced to leave their homes for up to three months after the building was found to be a fire hazard and in breach of safety regulations.

The Supreme Court has dismissed businessman Jim Kennedy appeal's against a High Court decision rejecting his bid to stop his trial over alleged corrupt payments for land rezoning.

Three local authorities have been criticised over indications that a contract to supply library books will be granted to a British company.

Fergus Finlay’s report (Opinion, Feb 14) on “Why man’s best friend should be allowed a hassle-free run on beach” states “they don’t like dogs in Dún Laoghaire County Council and they don’t approve of dog owners”.

The Supreme Court has today granted businessman Jim Kennedy's a stay pending the determination by the Supreme Court of his appeal against the High Court's refusal to stop his trial for allegedly making corrupt payments in relation to the rezoning of lands in Co Dublin.

The High Court has today dismissed applications by ex-FG TD Liam Cosgrove and businessman Jim Kennedy aimed at stopping their trials in connection with alleged corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Dublin.

The State has failed to give reasons why there was such a lengthy delay before charges were brought against businessman Jim Kennedy, the High Court has heard.

Retired Fine Gael politician Liam Cosgrave was shocked to learn he was to be charged with receiving alleged corrupt payments for rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s, the High Court heard today.

The High Court has today made an order allowing limited discovery of documents sought by businessman Jim Kennedy for his forthcoming judicial review proceedings aimed at preventing his criminal trial for alleged corrupt payments.

The High Court has today granted permission to former Fine Gael politician Liam Cosgrave and businessman Jim Kennedy to bring a legal challenge aimed at stopping their trials in connection with alleged corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s.

A ROCK star’s ex-wife has claimed she is too poor to pay money due to workers in her failed Dublin beauty salon.

MOST local authorities expect it will be next week — at the earliest — before normal water supply is fully restored around the country.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Kennedy, who was last week charged with numerous counts of corrupt payments to politicians, was remanded on continuing bail when he appeared at Cloverhill District Court.

Four former Fianna Fáil politicians and a Gibraltar-based businessman tonight appeared in court in connection with a multimillion-euro land deal alleged to be corrupt.

CRISIS talks between Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and union leaders take place at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) today in an attempt to resolve a waste collection dispute threatening to disrupt the country’s premier multicultural festival this weekend.