Am I the only one in Ireland who believes that we are going to bizarre lengths over the whole issue of privacy? Am I the only one who thinks that a national identity card is, in principle, a bloody good idea, and the sooner we all have one the better?

1. “I’m outside the Shakespeare! THE SHAKESPEARE! What? What Luas stop?”

A Luas driver refused to bring a tram on its scheduled journey because he feared delays could make him a few minutes late for the end of his shift, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has heard.

Seven people were injured yesterday after a sightseeing bus collided with a Luas tram in Dublin city centre.

Enda Kenny’s new Cabinet has received mixed reaction with praise after he appointed more women to government, but also questions about the role he gave certain ministers.

Comedy sketch group the Windup Merchantz from Dublin decided to turn to the Luas strike for material for their latest video.

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A woman in her thirties has been killed in a crash in Dublin city centre this morning.

Dramatic footage from a Luas tram shows the killer of street drug dealer Michael Kelly running across the tracks on his way to shoot the 27-year-old three times.

Deirdre Reynolds takes THAT book on a tour around Dublin to judge the reaction of the Irish public

A woman in her 30s is in a serious condition in hospital this morning, after being struck by a LUAS tram in Dublin last night.

A Luas driver has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for “impaling” his tram into a bus on O’Connell Street.

BLACK bus drivers have been urinated on and some foreign nationals working in Dublin are subjected to daily racial taunting, according to a report.

A report released today has documented high levels of racist violence and harrassment endured by migrants living in Dublin.

THE ginger-haired freckled boy sits on the Luas with his mother and her friend.

A homeless man who started fires at St James Hospital, Heuston Station and James Street causing the evacuation of the station and cancellation of the Luas has been given a seven-year sentence.

A MAN who was hit by a Luas tram yesterday and “bounced” onto the pavement, became the second person to be hit by rail transport in Dublin in just 24 hours.

JUST a few hundred yards from the Holy Cross Church in Dublin lies the Dundrum Luas stop.

TWO separate investigations have been launched after a Tallaght man became the first person to die in an incident involving a Luas tram.

IT’S often been said — and never more than in the last month — that Bertie Ahern is a lucky general. By this they mean that when his anorak was being given its Teflon coating, they laid it on thick and fast.

DUBLIN residents can brace themselves for years of pain as parts of the city are set to be torn apart to deliver a public transport system for future generations.

LUAS works will not stop for the Christmas period as reported, but will continue within the confines of the tram lines, the Railway Procurement Agency said yesterday.

WOULD it be too cynical to presume that by taking so long to agree its implementation, by advertising the exorbitant costs and by delaying its construction in business areas and local communities, perhaps it was Fianna Fáil’s and Séamus Brennan’s intention all along to turn Luas into the civic annoyance it has become in order to make any such future public transport initiatives so unattractive that there would be no wish to spend public funds on them?

THE troubled Luas project could be delayed a further nine months and cost at least an extra €20m it emerged last night.

MINISTER for Transport Seamus Brennan is to seek Cabinet approval for his ambitious underground Dublin metro system this month, a move that will signal the death knell for the LUAS transit system even before it begins operations.

The Minister for Transport is coming under fire tonight over revelations that LUAS will be delayed for a year.

DESPITE light and variable winds and early tides, 85 boats raced in the Cove SC John McCarthy Motorpoint annual race from Cobh to Blackrock village on the outskirts of Cork City.