Home Alone has long been an iconic symbol of Christmas magic, but you will never look at it the same way after hearing this Dublin dubbed version.

The Tallaght native took to her Instagram after the show was aired to thank her fans for their support.

A Date For Mad Mary is the latest film to underline the current depth of talent in Ireland, writes Esther McCarthy

Five patients who were in the Temple Street PICU have been transferred to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.

Roy Keane wants Ireland to wipe the smile off the face of Scottish football tomorrow.

The Bell family have been serving and protecting the public for 150 years, and yesterday two more members of the family’s fourth generation graduated as gardaí.

Though only 22, the suave Tallaght man is already making an impact, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Serious, and dark, claims are being made over the mounting Jobstown arrests — of political policing, of trumped-up charges and of Garda heavy-handedness.

A soccer player who broke an opponent’s nose after he headbutted him in an off-the-ball incident has avoided a jail term.

Las Vegas will trump Croke Park as the venue for “The Notorious” Conor McGregor’s Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight title showdown against Jose Aldo. 

When he steps out at Tallaght Stadium today Richard Dunne knows it may be the last time he plays in the country his talent was first honed.

Home town hero Conor McGregor crowned UFC's hugely successful return to Dublin with an explosive TKO victory over Brazil's Diego Brandao at the O2 last night.

The State is to compensate the parents of a two-year-old Roma boy wrongfully taken from them because of unfounded fears that he may have been abducted.

The man convicted of causing the death of a boy 13 years ago by setting a children’s makeshift den on fire yesterday received a 15-year prison sentence.

A mother who has been living in a hotel after it was found she had been living in her car with three young children, has until next week to find accommodation.

A Tallaght family has been reduced to sleeping in their car as they are unable to get emergency accommodation.

I see our old friend Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been ruffling feathers again, this time with comments which Pia Sundhage, coach of the Sweden women’s team, branded “boring” and “sad”.

For the past two decades, Dublin theatre company, Smashing Times, has engaged with social issues.

THOUGH he’s popularly known as ‘Nidge’ from RTÉ’s hit drama Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor has been a much admired stage actor for many years.

Sycerika McMahon followed up her 50m breaststroke bronze medal at the at the European Short Course Swimming Championships by qualifying for today’s 100m individual medley final.

It made “absolute sense” for a major acute hospital to use an overdraft facility to manage its cash flow problems, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday.

A fire fighter has being acquitted of threatening to shoot a colleague in the head in a row over which radio station to listen to.

A COUNCILLOR who represents a community labelled one of the country’s worst litter blackspots has launched a blistering attack on an anti-litter group.

ROBBIE KEANE hopes to be at the top of his game for Euro 2012 after a Premier League loan spell at Aston Villa and more MLS football with Los Angeles Galaxy.

IT WAS fitting that Robbie Keane spent most of Wednesday with his head in the clouds as he made his way back to his American dream after finally realising a European one.

A man has been sentenced to eight years for a post office robbery during which a customer had a knife held to her neck while the raiders demanded cash.

ON a night when Ireland won the Carling Nations Cup, Robbie Keane matched Bobby Charlton’s British and Ireland record of 49 international goals and Paul McShane seemed briefly possessed by the spirit of Lionel Messi, perhaps the best news out of this game for Giovanni Trapattoni is that Shay Given is fit and ready for Skopje.

A man has been jailed for three years for sneaking into his estranged wife’s bedroom and threatening to slit her throat before assaulting her.

A Tallaght man who viciously raped, beat and threatened to kill a woman he abducted from a busy road has received an eight-year sentence with one suspended.

A Tallaght father-of-two was jailed for seven years with the last four suspended for possessing nearly €60,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis in his home.

A young Tallaght father who head-butted a woman when she resisted his attempts to rape her has been jailed for four and a half years.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney insisted she will not resign but said it is up to the Taoiseach whether or not she stays on in office in a looming cabinet reshuffle.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

ANDY MURRAY not only wants to win tonight’s Irish lightweight title fight with Oisin ‘Gael Force’ Fagan when they headline the Yanjing Fight Night at the National Stadium in Dublin – he wants to do it with style.

THE emphasis will be on the four Irish title fights on the bill, but Cork-based Cuban knockout sensation, Alexei Acosta, is sure to claim a fair share of the limelight when he steps up in class to box former world champion, Felix Machado, in a unique Latin-American duel on the Yanjing Fight Night at the National Stadium tomorrow night.

PAUL HYLAND is hoping Bernard Dunne will reclaim the world title so he can then be part of what would be a sensational world title fight between two Dubliners in their native city.

IRELAND’S painful Italian lesson can prove invaluable against the French. So says Richard Dunne, and Liam Brady wholeheartedly agrees.

THE Dublin seaside town of Howth is celebrating being named as the cleanest place in Ireland.

An intoxicated Tallaght teenager whose "unprovoked attack on an innocent member of the public" left the victim unconscious and needing stitches has been given 12 months' detention.

A drunken father of three who crashed his car into two French tourists who had arrived in Ireland hours before causing them catastrophic injuries which killed them instantly has been given an eight-year sentence.

YESTERDAY’S announcement by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan that he is to introduce the 2009 budget in October, two months ahead of schedule, is an appropriate first response to the challenges presented by our rapidly deteriorating economy.

PARENTS of young children have been warned about the dangers of unsecured television sets after a spate of tragic accidents.

The eldest brother of convicted killers, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall, has been jailed for robbing two shops at knifepoint for money for food for his children and the children of his jailed sister Linda.