The latest victim of gangland warfare was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he fled several armed men, it emerged tonight.

Dublin’s 25th Gay Pride festival opens tonight celebrating the changes for the community over the last two decades.

Three heroic fire fighters killed in the worst tragedy to hit the service were today honoured in Dublin city.

Former President of Ireland, Dr Patrick Hillery, was today remembered as a humble and private man who achieved so much for his country.

A month-long series of events focusing on Jonathan Swift’s 'Gulliver’s Travels' kicks off in Dublin today as part of a major festival to promote reading.

ON your bike takes on a different meaning today when pedal power hits Dublin’s streets.

DINERS at the Four Seasons in Dublin will be digging into their food by candlelight only tonight as the hotel’s restaurant switches off its lights for a major global environmental campaign.

Diners at the Four Seasons in Dublin will be digging into their food by candlelight tomorrow night as the hotel’s restaurant switches off its lights for a major global environmental campaign.

PLANS to twin Dublin City with Beijing have met with opposition from councillors and human rights campaigners.

A packed line-up of arts, film and music was tonight unveiled in Dublin as part of the capital’s Chinese New Year Celebrations.

AFTER 23 years out in Sandymount Green, the Wren Boys festival in the capital shows no sign of weakening.

A TRADITIONAL crib featuring live animals, meant as a gesture of goodwill from the farmers of Ireland to the people of the capital was officially opened in the forecourt of the Mansion House yesterday.

A fusion of colour will light up Dublin city centre today when the lights on the capital's biggest Christmas tree are turned on.

SIX Irish books have been nominated for the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.

MORE THAN €1 million was spent cleaning up Hallowe’en bonfires and fireworks last year, Dublin city chiefs revealed.

The heads of the Belgian royal family today began a busy three-day state visit to Ireland which included several joint and separate engagements.

A civic ceremony will today mark this year’s best kept neighbourhoods in Dublin.

Clear skies and only a slight breeze made conditions almost perfect today for the competitors in the 87th Liffey Swim.

A 13-year-old girl will be the youngest competitor to ever take part in the Liffey Swim today.

DUBLIN City Council is to develop the country’s first avant-garde sustainable sports, leisure and amenity park.

IT will be Ladies’ Day in earnest both inside and outside the manicured rings of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS today.

Ireland’s biggest equestrian event kicked off today with precautions to safeguard against the spread into the country of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Lord Mayor of Dublin Paddy Bourke will launch the country’s biggest equestrian event today.

Some of Ireland’s greatest writers who left its shores by sea were today used to attract holidaymakers on to the waves.

Ireland’s latest world record breaker will be the centre of attention at a civic reception in his honour in Dublin today.

CITIZENS of the country’s three main cities had new lord mayors elected last night.

The 377th Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Vincent Jackson, begins the first day of his year-long term today.

DR MOSNEY ASYLUM, the medic who appeared to receive €4,940 for treating asylum seekers, is fictional and so was the payment made to him.

THE number of people with access to free medical care has dropped by almost 100,000 since the Coalition came to power.