Rotten by name but certainly not by nature.

“It’s a disaster for the village,” is how the owner of Falvey’s pharmacy, Conor Falvey, summed up the fallout from the weekend fire in Douglas Shopping Centre that has forced its temporary closure.

Al Hamza Food Ltd, trading as Bar BQ Tonight on Lower Clanbrassil Street, pleaded guilty in June at Dublin District Court to breaching the Employment Permits Act and Organisation of Working Time Act. The case was finalised today.

Al Hamza Food Ltd, trading as Bar BQ tonight on Lower Clanbrassil Street, pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to breaching the Employment Permits Act and Organisation of Working Time Act.

Diarmuid Whelan struck a magnificent 10 points as Laois ended Kildare’s reign as Leinster and All-Ireland U20 champions at the first stage in St Conleth’s Park last night on Tuesday evening.

An architect has been fined €2,500 for breaching health and safety laws in connection with a fatal workplace accident during renovations at his south Dublin home.

One was accused of not paying tolls for more than 500 trips and was allegedly sent almost 2,000 letters demanding payment.

A rare chance to own not one but TWO lighthouse keeper's cottages on your own stunning island off Co Donegal has come up.

A retail chain has been given a chance to avoid a conviction for the sale of tobacco to a 15-year-old girl.

A judge has said it was not acceptable for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to recover dole fraud money from children’s allowance payments.

The High Court has set aside a decision of An Bord Pleanala to grant planning permission for the construction of an electricity generating biogas facility in Co. Meath.

Ten motorists accused of dodging M50 tolls were hit with fines totalling almost €100,000 today.

A judge has ordered the arrest of both the mother and father of a young girl who did not progress into secondary school and has missed every day of first year.

A wheelchair user and a dwarf are just two of the 18 guests on a new TV show that dresses people whose clothing needs are not the norm, says Ruth O'Connor

Former professional boxer Jim Rock has lost his claim for damages against ex-justice minister Alan Shatter following a collision between their cars on a road in south Dublin.

A shop manager has been left with a €2,500 fine after a former employee had been doing a clandestine “nixer” by selling unstamped tobacco from the premises.

A Dublin Bus worker caught selling almost 10,000 untaxed cigarettes online has been fined €2,500.

Irish households have the highest carbon emissions in Europe.

Galway boss Jeffrey Lynskey has backed his side to shine in the All-Ireland MHC semi-finals after they eased past Kilkenny at Semple Stadium in Thurles.

A father-of-four who was sent a child pornography clip on his phone which showed a child being raped, has received a one-year suspended sentence.

An apprentice carpenter has granted bail after being charged over a fatal one punch assault in Tallaght, Dublin.

A man has been charged with the murder of his wife Anne Colomines who was stabbed to death in their apartment in Dublin city-centre.

The extra hour in bed was appreciated on Sunday morning but it also meant the start of the long winter nights, writes Gráinne McGuinness

The woman was properly ratty about her mother’s funeral. Even though it was a couple of years ago, she could still work herself up into a good rage about the priest

Dublin schools have cleaned up with seven out of 13 students receiving eight H1's in today's Leaving Cert results.

A health watchdog inspection has found “major non-compliances” in Garda vetting at foster care services in Kerry, and some moderate non-compliances at similar services in Galway and Roscommon.

A father was like a boxer when he suddenly lashed out and punched his 8-year-old daughter in the face, a court has heard.

A 31-year-old man been remanded in custody after he was charged over a pipe-bomb which was found under a prison officer’s car in Dublin.

A father-of-two with more than 100 criminal convictions is facing sentence for repeatedly snatching phones from women while he cycled past them on Dublin streets.

A lonely cygnet had to be rescued from a driveway after mistaking two swan-shaped flower pots for members of his family.

Three men charged in connection with an arms seizure in Dublin have been remanded in custody.

A Dublin man accused of vandalising the headstone of former president and taoiseach Éamon de Valera told gardaí he was guilty, a court has heard.

A judge has told a graphic designer, who “tagged” a Starbucks cafe in Dublin, to go back to college because his graffiti was not a work of art.

A 21-year-old man has has been released on conditional bail after he was charged over a stabbing in Birr, Co. Offaly which left a man in critical condition.

A 33-year-old woman entered court grinning to face assault and robbery charges after a woman was stabbed in the neck in a mugging in Dublin.

A judge has refused to throw out a phone theft case brought against gang target Ross Hutch.

A judge has refused to throw out a phone theft case brought against gang target Ross Hutch, nephew of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch.

Lone British raider Moonlit Show plundered the listed Blenheim 2-Y-0 Stakes, feature of yesterday’s action in Fairyhouse, giving her trainer Charlie Fellows a first stakes-race success and initiating a double for Billy Lee, which brought him to the 50-winner mark for the first time in a season.

An Bord Pleanála’s decision to give the go-ahead for the construction of an electricity generating biogas facility in Co Meath is to be challenged in the High Court.

Last summer 12 Irish students in Berkeley, California were standing on a balcony when it disentegrated beneath their feet. Joe Leogue provides an update on the survivors, their search for justice and hears from students in the area today

A 29-year-old man has been charged in relation to the gangland murder of Gareth Hutch in Dublin last week.

A 39-year-old Dublin man accused of putting an imitation handgun to a shopkeeper’s head before being disarmed by an off-duty garda, has been refused bail.