The Department of Health has come under pressure after it emerged the former CEO of Console was brought in for questioning five years ago regarding his stint posing as a fake doctor in the early 1980s.

A build up of toxic smoke in a sewer underneath the street was the cause of a manhole cover to blow open in Dublin city yesterday.

There's something inexplicably adorable about Michael D Higgins queuing up to get some cash from the hole in the wall…

The Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin is to exhibit material relating to the auction-smashing triptych of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon.

ONE of the most striking things about Eamon Dunphy’s upbringing in Drumcondra, on Dublin’s northside, was the love his parents had for each other.

The employment numbers reported last Thursday by the Central Statistics Office should be a boon to business confidence across all sectors of the economy; more people gainfully employed and fewer people out of work, more wages to be spent in the domestic economy and an upward tick on the tax returns for the exchequer.

The identities of dozens of Bank of Ireland employees, managers, and executives alleged to have exchanged lewd pornographic emails are to be sought in a fight by a sacked manager to retain his reinstated status.

The only son of award- winning restaurateurs Derry and Sallyanne Clarke was laid to rest amid emotional scenes on Saturday.

LARRY Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot St in Dublin — announced last weekend — is a remarkable story.

Jedward-mania hit the streets of Dublin as the pop duo carried the Olympic Torch through the capital.

U2’s fifth member — manager Paul McGuinness — last night launched an exhibition of the band from when they were fresh faced teenagers — on the same day that Bono turned 52.

I WAS a very awkward child and I’m still quite shy. I struggled with fitness when I was younger although I did play rugby for 12 years.

A 16-year-old boy, who was unable to resist the temptation to re-offend, was today detained for eight months on his 50th criminal conviction.

SENIOR trade union officials have drawn up battle plans in the FÁS decentralisation dispute that could impact the Government’s entire €1 billion public sector relocation programme.

Friends of Connacht Rugby are taking to the streets of Dublin today with the aim of preserving the Connacht rugby team and ensuring Irish rugby goes forward equally in the four provinces.