Green leader Eamon Ryan has called for a series of rainbow alliances with other parties following his party’s historic election wins.

The first elected councillor in Dublin City has pledged to press for better housing and cycle facilities after topping the poll and becoming the country's first Irish-Chinese local representative.

As a group of Dublin City Councillors, we are acutely aware of how the Eighth Amendment, and Ireland’s restrictive abortion legislation, has impacted on the lives of women across our city.

The Policing Authority has expressed considerable concern at the lack of Garda progress in meeting government targets to recruit 500 civilians by the end of 2017.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said the board members of the new Policing Authority were of the “highest calibre”, after claims they were political appointees.

An early flurry of electoral successes in Dublin prompted talk of green shoots for the Green Party but the countrywide count cautioned that careful cultivation would be required.

A Sinn Féin surge in Dublin City has left a bruised Labour party with just a fraction of its seats and the loss of some of its high-profile councillors.

The Green Party has secured its first seat in the local election in Dublin, the party’s first election win in Dublin City Council in 10 years.

The jury in the trial of four men accused of kidnapping a Securicor worker and his family before robbing €2.28m has been told that two numbers allegedly linked to the crime belonged to two defendants.

Judge Mahon describes corruption as endemic in Irish public life, but was limited to examining planning in Dublin.

A 20-year-old Dublin man was today found guilty of the murder of Patrick Costello, aged 31, at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder at the Central Criminal Court were sent to a hotel tonight and will tomorrow morning resume their deliberations.

A jury in the trial of a 19-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that the accused deliberately stabbed the deceased.

A 19-year-old Dublin man accused of murder allegedly admitted to gardaí to stabbing the deceased, a jury today heard at the Central Criminal Court.

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that the accused allegedly told his friend: "Paddy is dead", "I don't know what to do, my head is f**ked up, I don't know what to do."

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that the accused told his friend: "I don't know what to do. My head is f**ked up. I don't know what to do".

The State Pathologist today told the jury at the case of a Dublin man accused of murder that the deceased died from "a single stab wound to the left chest".

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that the accused allegedly put a six-inch knife up the left sleeve of his jacket before he attacked the victim.

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that after the accused allegedly stabbed his victim he ran from the scene and continued drinking into the early hours of the morning.

A jury in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of murder today heard that after the accussed allegedly stabbed his victim he ran from the scene and continued drinking.

The brother of a 30 year-old woman on trial for the murder of her eight year-old son today told how it was "inconceivable" to think that his sister would harm any of her three sons.

The National Safety Council has appealed to motorists not to drink and drive over the St Patrick's Festival weekend in Dublin.