A man who stole almost €8,000 from his own bank account after it held funds that didn't belong to him has avoided jail.

Counsel said that Freer should have had been linked in with social services but this didn't happen until gardaí raided his home.

A man who stole almost €8,000 from his own bank account after it held funds that did not belong to him will be sentenced in February.

Two men have been charged in connection with a robbery in west Dublin yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí in West Dublin have arrested a man in his 40s after a major drugs bust in Clondalkin.

WHEN Environment Minister Alan Kelly announced the Government’s new social housing strategy last November, it was given a broad welcome, that at last something was being done about our homeless crisis and the endless housing lists.

Around €170,000 worth of drugs has been seized by gardaí in Dublin.

The development of the Liffey Valley shopping centre at Quarryvale in west Dublin is one of the most controversial in the county’s history.

MICHAEL CLIFFORD’S article (May 30) on Balgaddy contains a number of references to my father, Tom Gilmartin, which are mistaken.

A man shot in Dublin earlier this week has died in hospital

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Dublin in connection with the seizure of a firearm.

A 30-year-old drug addict who attempted to rob a Lucan shop and threatened the owner with an imitation handgun has been given a six-year sentence with the final two years suspended.

HUNDREDS of Gama workers in Dublin yesterday refused to return to work as SIPTU demanded the Government step in to prevent the threatened repatriation of Turkish employees.

GARDAÍ were yesterday questioning three men in connection with a seizure of cocaine with an estimated street value of up to €4 million.

Gardaí in Dublin have questioned a man after the seizure of heroin worth over a €250,000.