The homeless crisis is going to get worse despite a €10m budget allocation, while projects working with drug users had their funding "chiselled away" during the consecutive austerity budgets.

DUBLIN City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter 1916 leader Padraig Pearse handed to a British army general after the Easter Rising.

Sonia O'Sullivan today declared the importance of the BUPA Ireland Cork City Sports to her preparations for the Olympic Games.

A man who died after a violent attack in Dublin had intervened in a row between a couple. Patrick Farrell, from Dunne Street on the north-side of the city, was kicked and stabbed to death. It is believed a barbecue fork was used in the attack.