A 29-year-old man appeared in court today charged with robbery at a shop in Ballymun yesterday.

There is an air of inevitability hanging over the make-up of the next government.

TD Joan Collins has been cleared of breaking the Public Order Act during a water protest in Crumlin in Dublin last year.

Latest: All charges have been dismissed against a group of 10 water charge protesters who were arrested as a crew tried to install a metre in Dublin last April.

A Dublin Councillor has been cleared of failing to comply with a Garda direction to leave the scene of a water charge protest last April.

Independent TD Joan Collins told gardaí she had a right to protest and would not move when asked to let a water meter installation crew in Dublin do their work, a court has heard.

A 20-year-old man with special needs, who has been charged with the murder of his mother, did not attend a scheduled court sitting yesterday because of illness.

A man accused of murdering his mother in Lixnaw in Co. Kerry has been further remanded to appear at Listowel District Court on December 18.

A 20-year-old man with special needs has been charged with the murder of his mother at their home last Wednesday.

The 19-year-old son of Susan Dunne, who was found dead at her north Kerry home on Wednesday, has appeared in court charged with her murder.

A 19-year-old man has appeared in Killarney district court charged with murdering his mother.

A 19-year-old man was being questioned by gardaí last night in connection with the killing of a woman in her 50s in North Kerry.

A member of England's royal family has laid a wreath at a memorial to rebels who fought and died in the 1916 Easter Rising.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

A man who claimed he bought a sawn-off shotgun because his brother became involved in a feud in Mountjoy prison, and later tested the weapon in the Phoenix Park, has been sentenced to four years.

The remaining criminal charge against George Redmond has been dropped by the State.

The George Redmond corruption trial has ended with the jury acquitting him on one charge and failing to agree a verdict on the second count.

George Redmond has been acquitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of receiving a £10,000-punt bribe from a Fianna Fáil councillor in 1980, the jury are still deliberating on a second charge.

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that "the core issue" for the jurors is to decide whether he told the truth to gardaí or later under oath to the Flood Tribunal.

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that a person doesn't have to be dishonest to be corrupt.

Closing speeches have concluded in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with the prosecution telling the jury on day-15 of the trial that his actions "reeked of corruption".

The hearing of evidence has ended at George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court and the concluding stages have now been reached.

The terms "bribery" and "corruption" were never raised in meetings in 1999 between George Redmond's solicitor and Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, who was then chief of the Criminal Assets Bureau, a court has heard today.

George Redmond's trial for accepting a bribe from Fianna Fáil Councillor Patrick Dunne has heard his tax return for 1990 stated he received Ir£10,000 in "gratuitous receipts" from someone with the initials "PD".

George Redmond told gardaí he regularly received large sums of money from people representing development companies his corruption trial has been told.

A former Criminal Assets Bureau officer has given evidence at the corruption trial of George Redmond that he admitted in interview he received Irl£10,000 from the Fianna Fáil Councillor, Patrick Dunne.

The Ir£10,000 corruption trial of George Redmond has continued again with legal issues in the absence of the jury on day nine of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Ir£10,000 corruption trial of George Redmond has continued on day-eight of the hearing in legal argument in the absence of the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The corruption trial of George Redmond at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has continued in legal argument and it is hoped to resume the hearing of evidence before the jury tomorrow

The corruption trial of George Redmond at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has continued in legal argument and the hearing of evidence is expected to resume today.

A prominent businessman has told the George Redmond corruption trial that he used the Fianna Fáil chief whip on Dublin County Council, the late Mr Patrick Dunne, to assist him in planning matters.

The trial of former Dublin Assistant County Manager, George Redmond, charged with receiving a bribe in return for purchasing development land, has heard he was originally reluctant to buy it.

A jury in the corruption trial of former Dublin Assistant County Manager, Mr George Redmond, has been told he admitted to gardaí that he received money in relation to a compulsory purchase order on land.

THE first time Patrick Dunne saw his bride’s face was when he lifted her wedding veil, shortly before the vows.

Two teenagers involved in the sexual assault of two boys, aged seven and eight, have been remanded on bail for sentence on November 7 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kilkenny teenager accused of murder allegedly said: "I didn’t do it, you are not going to make me say I did it" when he was arrested by gardaí in connection with the murder of a 36-year-old mother of three.

JUST seconds after they laid eyes on one another, two strangers took the plunge and became husband and wife in Dublin yesterday.

THE old superstition that a groom shouldn’t see his bride until she steps up the aisle doesn’t apply to one couple due to wed today - they’ve never laid eyes on each other.

THE brother of a courier shot by masked gunmen was preparing to tell him last night that despite the efforts of surgeons his leg would have to be amputated.