“Do it now to limit the spread and keep it down and catch it before there’s more community spread,” Dr Yvonne Williams told RTÉ's Today with Séan O’Rourke.

All four local authorities in the county are joining the 'Breathe Life' campaign.

Former Lord Mayor of Dublin, independent councillor Niall Ring has accused the Taoiseach of politicising the tragic circumstances in which a homeless man was seriously injured when his tent was lifted by Waterways Ireland.

Mr Varadkar defended the government's record on trying to help people off the street, but also said several times that the injured homeless man had been known to support services.

A vote last night on next year's budget, which could see increases to parking fees, tolls, commercial rates and council rents, was put back until Monday.

Between 76,000 and 96,000 additional tourists are expected to visit Ireland in June next year as there are three group games and one round of 16 game played at the Aviva Stadium.

Jim Gavin will have the right to bring goods into Dublin through the city gates, without paying customs duties

“I was told by a fireman who attended here on Saturday that we are all lucky to be alive," said one resident, after the fire in Marmion Court Flats, Blackhall Street.

A seven-year-old boy was knocked down and killed by a street cleaning vehicle in Ballymun.

The Irish beef industry capitalised on the opportunity offered by the Dublin venue for the recent World Steak Challenge 2019.

UK operator LeisureInsure covers event companies, operators of bouncy castles, soccer coaches and drama groups.

Two men, including the grandson of former Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, have received sentences totalling 14 years at the Special Criminal Court after they were caught with four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade in a densely populated area of Dublin city.

A report has put Dublin among the top 10 'liveable' cities in the world for Europeans.

As usual, the folks at Waterford Whispers News nailed it.

Today and tomorrow, survivors of the Magdalene Laundries will be feted in the Mansion House and welcomed to Áras an Uachtaráin, says Charlie Flanagan.

Unless it’s squeaky tight, and it may be, we’ll know by lunch time on Saturday how Friday’s referendum went.

The story of the anthems offers a sharp insight into how a United Ireland has been imagined by too many of those who profess to desire it as something that is united only in geography but not in much else, writes Paul Rouse.

Israel's foreign ministry has summoned Ireland's ambassador to express dismay over Dublin's mayor attending an "anti-Israel" event in Ramallah.

Latest: Bob Geldof has officially handed back his Freedom of the City of Dublin award.

Cork City Council has defended the Lord Mayor’s use of the official mayoral car to drive him home from the Fianna Fáil ard fheis in Dublin last Saturday.

“I make no apologies for it — I’m the guy who wants to bring the Olympics to Dublin.”

The Lord Mayor of Dublin says residents of the north inner city are too afraid to provide information on gangland feuds.

A man has been charged with knowingly possessing four kilograms of TNT in central Dublin, while another man has been charged with IRA membership, at a bank-holiday Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court.

Plans for a new maternity hospital are back on track after the board of Holles Street overwhelmingly voted in favour of re-endorsing the deal struck last November that paved the way for its transfer to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital at Elm Park.

Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Update 4.30pm: Dublin City Council have issued a statement in honour of their recently deceased colleague Trevor O'Neill.

Talking publishing, writing, selling and reading in our sports book round-up.

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

The first of the Irish funerals for the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, take place in Dublin today.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to search for a group of teenagers who attacked a man with an intellectual disability.

I refer to the article ‘Croker residents in the dark’ about concert plans’ (Irish Examiner February 11) and I wish to correct misinformation within the piece.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a homeless man in Dublin's Temple Bar.

Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke has said that the Taoiseach's decision to visit homeless people on the streets of inner city Dublin last night was not a “political stunt”.

The Housing Minister Paudie Coffey is insisting the Forum on Homelessness is not just a talking shop.

Football pundit John Giles and Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Day Centre are set to receive the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

The state funeral of Albert Reynolds is continuing in Donnybrook in Dublin, and has heard a moving eulogy from his son Philip.

Pope Francis has paid tribute to the late former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds for his work as a peacemaker.

With just over three weeks to the Croke Park Classic, a programme of events around the American College football game between Penn State and the University of Central Florida (UCF) has been announced.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has said the city was not prepared for the heavy downpours overnight which led to flooding acroos much of the northside this morning.

The Government is being urged not to do a 'rush job' in regenerating Dublin's Moore Street, just to have it ready for the Easter Rising centenary celebrations