Gardaí investigating the savage attack on a man who was shot in the head while driving through inner-city Dublin have recovered the getaway motorbike used in the assault.

The victim of Dublin's latest shooting has told Gardaí he was attacked by two men on a motorbike as he sat in his car on Sheriff Street.

A convicted rapist terrified a woman and her elderly mother at a shopping centre car park in Cork when he pulled a knife and demanded their car keys.

A man has died in hospital after being knocked down in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

A security alert is underway in central Dublin, after a suspicious device was found on Amiens Street just after 9am.

Two men were taken to hospital after separate shooting incidents within half an hour of each other in Dublin city last night.

THE flats complex has been dubbed Little Beirut by some locals.