Standing solemnly at the same site and same time as the first shot rang out on Easter Monday 1916, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan stooped to carefully place a wreath beside Dublin’s City Hall.

Wreaths will be laid at seven locations around Dublin which were key to the Easter Rising as commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the rebellion continue across the country.

The country’s largest local authority spent a whopping €144,504 on Christmas trees last December.

Under glorious blue skies, the St Patrick’s Day parade snaked through Dublin, led by disability campaigner Joanne O’Riordan.

Danny Morrison is a fine writer. He is also ‘a good republican’ as Gerry Adams might say. He is not much of an historian. (Irish Examiner, Monday 11).

Not even the man who battled an evil empire in a galaxy far, far away could save the Kingdom — and so Sam Maguire will be residing in the capital for the next year.

A Fine Gael TD has warned against a plan to “export” or rehouse homeless Dubliners in rural areas and claims they will bring criminal behaviour to the Midlands.

Warnings are being issued regarding the life-threatening danger of inhaling butane gas — with drug agencies noticing a resurgence in recent years.

It was moving, solemn, and dignified.

The new Lord Mayor of Dublin said she is not going to continuously answer questions about her party, Sinn Féin.

Gardaí were tonight continuing their hunt for the gunman who shot dead 26-year-old Anthony Cannon in the latest gangland murder.

A WELL-KNOWN gangland criminal in his mid-20s was shot dead last night in yet another gangland shooting in the capital.

A man was shot dead tonight in Dublin’s latest gangland gun attack.