Gardaí in Ballymun have issued an appeal for information on the two cars used by the gunmen who shot dead an innocent mother-of-six and a young locksmith there last week.

Gardaí are pursuing 300 lines of enquiry following the murder of a 30-year-old man and a mother of six in Ballymun in Dublin.

Gardaí have recovered a second weapon in their investigation of the double murder in Ballymun.

The second murder victim has been named in the gangland shooting that claimed two lives and injured three others.

Latest: The man shot dead in Ballymun yesterday has been named locally.

Children as young as five are receiving help for suicidal thoughts, the founder of a new counselling service has revealed.

Kelly O’Brien on Kilkenny man Walter O’Briens rise from teenage hacker to US government troubleshooter.

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A group of taxi drivers in Kilkenny are being hailed as heroes after it was revealed their Taxi Watch initiative has saved the lives of 45 people since the end of last year.

Three young men broke into an innocent man’s house and accused him of being a paedophile after a girl made false allegations that someone had exposed themselves to her.

A young Dublin man who left a knife embedded in another youth’s back has received a five year sentence with one suspended.

Two Ballymun men have told a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury they were "blessed to be alive" after running for their lives as they were shot at from a car outside their home.

The trial of a Ballymun man charged in connection with an alleged drive-by shooting has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An armed criminal who told gardaí arresting him that they had him "banged to rights" has been given 10 years in consecutive jail sentences by Judge Donagh McDonagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.