It has all the ingredients of a classic ghost movie.

Dublin’s Grafton St is to undergo a €4m facelift.

An Irish novel is among the 10 shortlisted for the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

An Irish author has been shortlisted for the world’s richest literary prize.

Plans have been unveiled for a €60m cultural quarter in one of Dublin’s finest Georgian squares.

Plans have been unveiled for a €60m cultural quarter in one of Dublin’s finest Georgian squares.

Criminals preying on tourists are most likely to target young women sightseeing in Dublin during the afternoon, a new report reveals.

GAA rivalry has long pitted parish against parish and turned county against county, but it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe at the funeral of Dublin football hero Kevin Heffernan.

They came to the Mansion House in their uniforms in pairs and groups, gardaí in stab vests, and schoolgirls in knee socks.

The murder of a detective during a credit union hold-up has today been branded an attack on the State by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

Preparations are underway at the RDS in Dublin, where a charity Christmas dinner will be served to 500 people, most of them homeless this Christmas.

Eight Irish authors are among the 154 on the longlist for the world’s richest literary prize – the highest ever number.

Eight Irish authors are in with a chance of winning one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes after their books were nominated by libraries around the globe.

Dublin Bay looked like the setting for a remake of the popular BBC series from the 1970s, The Onedin Line, yesterday as it hosted the ceremony to mark the closing spectacle of the Tall Ships Festival.

“Ah! Bella!” the Italian woman exclaimed as she caught sight of the Amerigo Vespucci as it sailed up the Liffey — and she was right.

The weather wasn’t quite stable but it took more than the threat of biblical-style floods to deter Ireland’s equestrian community who braved tumultuous downpours to attend the opening day of the 139th Dublin Horse Show at the RDS in Ballsbridge.

So what did your relative really get up to this summer at the recent Euro 2012 soccer championship in Poland?

The unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast joined his Dublin counterpart today in paying tribute together to the shared sacrifice of Ireland's war dead.

Several local authorities across the country have elected new mayors tonight.

Coalition party councillors will need a lot of convincing, says Juno McEnroe

A Fine Gael councillor has lambasted trendy fashion chain Urban Outfitters for selling t-shirts depicting "the drunken Irish".

AS the political parties enter the final week of the campaign, they know exactly where they stand and what they need to do.

CONTROVERSY surrounds a new statue of IRA chief of staff Sean Russell, erected in Dublin this week to replace an earlier monument damaged by those protesting against the republican’s links to the Nazis.

IN the run-up to the 2002 general election, a Fianna Fáil deputy for Cork North-Central, Noel O’Flynn, famously described asylum seekers as ‘spongers’ and ‘freeloaders’.

A JUDGE recently fined the owners of a Dublin crèche who were deemed to have failed to ensure the safety of a child in their care. Why were the parents obliged to go to the courts to get redress?