Labour leader Brendan Howlin, too, called for a progressive alliance of the left and has called for such parties to agree a “common agenda” if they are in government together.

Gardaí are trying to gather intelligence and assemble evidence in their hunt for a six-man gang behind a “heartless” aggravated burglary in north Dublin.

The incident occurred at a house on the Strand Road area of Portmarnock, Dublin yesterday.

Armatile announced plans to create 20 new jobs and invest €3m in a new luxury showroom and design hub in Dublin.

A man who made a hoax 999 call to say there had been a shooting at a pub in order to divert Gardaí who were trying to remove him from his ex-partner's home has been jailed for 15 months.

The family of a Dublin woman who died by suicide claimed she had effectively become a drug addict from medication she had been prescribed.

Gardaí say a post-mortem examination will determine the course of their investigation.

Gardaí have launched an investigation into a three-car collision which occurred in North County Dublin yesterday.

The remains of 'hugely missed' mother-of-four Margaret Glennon were discovered in a ditch by a digger driver. She was last seen 23 years before.

Teva Pharmaceutical’s chief financial officer has reiterated the company has done nothing wrong in the wake of a price-fixing lawsuit filed by 44 US states.

An Irish woman is set to headline professional wrestling's biggest night tonight.

Riding the favourite in the famous colours of JP McManus and on a Joseph O’Brien-trained gelding at the Curragh is a dream challenge for most jockeys.

A 38-year-old supervisor claimed in court that an allegation by Dunnes Stores that she had failed to pay for a bag of potatoes had left a blight on her character.

Rosaline O’Brien, from Cappamore, Co Limerick, knew nothing about cancer trials until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2013.

A 12-year jail sentence was imposed on the main man behind a cocaine factory in Kinsale, while a local woman who was his girlfriend was jailed for seven years.

The Minister for Education Richard Bruton announced today that 42 new schools will be built over the next four years.

Gardaí have said they expect to have a book of evidence completed by next month in relation to an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory in Bantry in West Cork.

Distraught parents had to wait 45 minutes before they were told their baby, who was in the back seat of their stolen car, was found safe and well.

Gardaí in Dublin investigating a stolen car incident have issued a photo of the car in an appeal for information.

A young child has escaped injury after a car was stolen in the Baldoyle area of Dublin this morning.

One of four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory has been granted bail.

One of a group of people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine-extraction laboratory has been refused bail.

Four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory will remain in Garda custody ahead of a court date next week.

The gang was being monitored locally by Cork drug units, nationally by the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Customs, and internationally by the EU’s Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre.

The male in his 20s is being detained at Howth Garda Station and will appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice later this morning.

Enda Varley had his nose broken off the ball in the 2012 semi-final meeting of Mayo and Dublin and also played in the 2013 final. Gone from the county scene, he has since slipped behind enemy lines, playing his club football with St Vincent’s. Kieran Shannon discovers how he’s grown to appreciate his new surroundings and respect teammates like Diarmuid Connolly, but also sees a rivalry between his two homes slipping out of control

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a hit-and-run crash in Dublin which left a cyclist with serious leg injuries.

Gardaí are investigating after a hit-and-run accident in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

A woman with 234 convictions who stole a handbag from an elderly woman using a walking frame has been jailed for three years.

Dermot Weld reached a significant milestone in his long and illustrious career in Naas last night when a double, with Discipline in the listed Naas Oaks Trial and Sea Swift in the fillies maiden, saw him reach the 4,000 winner mark.

Showers are blowing in from the estuary and the wind-chill factor has the brass monkeys scurrying for cover. It’s early afternoon in the village of Baldoyle, north Dublin, and it is to here that Deirdre Heney is coming to tie down a few number ones.

A kayaker who capsized and drowned had been paddling in fast-flowing rapids following heavy rain, an inquest has heard.

Secondary teachers are to seek a full restoration of pay, as guaranteed in the Haddington Road Agreement.

Irish badminton will write a standout chapter in its history today when the national team faces hosts Belgium in the European Mixed Team Championships at the Sportoase Leuven arena outside Brussels. 

Gardaí have charged a 43-year-old man in connection with the attempted armed robbery of a Post Office in north Dublin.

A man has been arrested after an attempted robbery at a Post Office in Dublin.

Okay, so here’s the deal. You choose. A week spent in Cork and Dublin, or a destination anywhere else in the world.

IT WAS an impulse purchase, let’s be honest. The man in my life became briefly insufferable about all the diseases he could not get because of all the vaccinations he’d had, so I decided to take a prescription out of his book, so to speak, and get the flu jab.

Six or seven Bohemians soccer fans surrounded a man in Cork City on their way to a match and despite his efforts to avoid them by trying to get in the door of a pub, he was struck on head with a glass and punched.