A Dublin man has been convicted of running a brothel in the city centre.

A jury in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been shown video footage of the garda raid on an alleged brothel call centre in the International Financial Services Centre area of the city in October 2005.

The man accused of running a brothel in Dublin city centre told investigating gardai that he has eight children in Ireland in five different families.

A Kildare woman who managed a city centre brothel which had an estimated annual turnover of €4 m has been jailed for one year by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

EVIDENCE by the retired developer, Tom Gilmartin that Liam Lawlor arrived uninvited at a meeting in London to demand money for supporting a property development in Dublin in the late 1980s has been corroborated by a British businessman at the Planning Tribunal.

KEY witness Tom Gilmartin received a death threat in the corridors of Leinster House, it emerged during a dramatic first day of new hearings at the Mahon Tribunal.

The number of people killed in road accidents this weekend has risen to four.

Three people have been killed in road accidents overnight.

A FULL-SCALE murder investigation has been launched following the death of a middle-aged businessman four days after he suffered serious head injuries in a city centre beating.

TWO men were arrested yesterday in connection with an attack on two Chinese men — one of whom was in a critical condition last night.