Young people are seen as “plentiful and expendable” by gang bosses.

Jim Gavin will have the right to bring goods into Dublin through the city gates, without paying customs duties

There were plenty of smiling faces as Jim Gavin and his Dublin team passed Sam Maguire around for the traditional photocall.

The homecoming will take place on September 29.

Five-in-a-row winning Dublin manager Jim Gavin brought along the Sam McGuire Cup and some of the winning team to mark the unveiling of an All Ireland victory mural in Ballybough today.

A permanent mural in honour of Dublin Senior Football team manager Jim Gavin is to be erected in the heart of the capital city.

Gardaí investigating a serious assault on an elderly man in Dublin which resulted in him suffering serious head and spinal injuries have released an image of a mask they believe was worn by the assailant.

Great grand-father, Paddy Hansard, suffered serious head and spinal injuries in the alleged attack.

“Retribution is not the way to deal with the savage attack on a great grandfather,” which has left him battling for his life, members of the public were told at a candle light vigil held for him in Dublin north inner city.

The man suffered head and spinal injuries in the serious assault and was brought to the Mater Hospital where he remains in a critical but stable condition this morning.

A man in his 50s has been released without charge after a man was seriously assaulted in Dublin.

A number of searches were carried out this morning in Ballybough in the north inner city during a planned operation targeting organised crime.

A Dublin man who was arrested with a loaded gun in Dublin’s north inner city was “an important and trusted member” of an organised crime gang, the non-jury Special Criminal Court has heard.

Mick McCarthy and Seamus Coleman have paid tribute in Gibraltar to Jon Walters, after the striker announced that injury has forced him to retire from football, bringing to a close an illustrious Irish career which saw him score 14 goals in 54 appearances.

The crash involved two cars and occurred at Drumcondra Rd Lower (junction of Hollybank Rd) around 6.30 this morning.

We’re at the door. We can hear the thumping music inside. Our hands are stamped before we can head downstairs to where the action is. A burly man steps up to us and er … offers to help us with our buggy?

A 35-year-old Dubliner shouted "guilty of f*cking what" when a jury convicted him of murdering two men who had arranged to sell him a stolen car.

Four people who own properties near Croke Park are challenging the go-ahead for a proposed development of a new route to and from the stadium which they say will adversely affect their houses.

Locals in the North Inner City of Dublin are defending their area after it was deemed "littered", according to the latest survey by Irish Business Against Litter.

Plans to regenerate the last Georgian mansion built in Dublin — Aldborough House in the Ballybough area of the north inner city — with an office development on the site have been blocked, writes Gordon Deegan.

Two men are being questioned by gardaí following an operation targeting dissident republicans in central Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested two men after suspected explosive devices were seized in Dublin's north inner city.

A Cork bar has defended its door policies after it received a torrent of criticism after it asked a man with Down syndrome to provide age identification, even though he was with his parents, who emphasised that he is 21.

A man has been arrested after a woman was threatened in her home with a knife recently.

Two women and a man were arrested yesterday as gardaí close the net on those behind the spate of gangland murders in Dublin’s north inner city.

It should not take slaughter on the streets for Government to take action in north inner city Dublin, where communities want far reaching policies and resources that can facilitate long-term change, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

A Garda chief has said he is “absolutely confident” that investigations into four murders in his area will be successful.

Five Dublin drinking pals dramatically withdrew personal injury claims relating to a rear-ending accident that a judge described as “a clear set-up”.

Fears are growing among local residents after a suspected dissident republican was murdered in his pub in the first of two gun killings in Dublin within hours of each other last night.

Gardaí are investigating two murders in Dublin in the latest spate of violence in the city.

A man closely linked to the attack on the Regency Hotel in which David Byrne, a key member of the Kinahan gang, was murdered, was shot dead last night in the latest murder linked to the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud.

The gangland murders of the past fortnight have brought back “fear and terror” to a community already on its knees from cutbacks and neglect, the local drug task force has said.

As expected, the brutal murder of Dublin taxi-driver and sometime criminal Eddie Hutch at his Ballybough home on Monday brought law and order on to centre stage of this general election campaign, writes Daniel McConnell

Day six of the campaign saw Sinn Féin and Gerry Adams put under significant pressure over their call to abolish the Special Criminal Court, writes Daniel McConnell

Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) have called on the GAA to ban the Confederate flag from their grounds after a variation of it appeared in Fitzgerald Stadium at the Munster SFC final last Sunday.

A teenager who was killed on Christmas Day when he crashed an off-road motorbike was seen doing wheelies seconds before, an inquest has heard.

Dublin's Lord Mayor Christy Burke says the Garth Brooks concerts must go ahead "to save the nation from sorrow and misery".

Government intervention last night saw senior figures in Dublin City Council invited to crisis talks to see what can be done to salvage the Garth Brooks concerts.

A Shelbourne football fan has been given a suspended sentence for attacking a 16-year-old Cork City fan, causing serious head injuries, during a post-match brawl.

Gardaí have appealed to fans attending Sunday's All-Ireland hurling final not to invade the Croke Park pitch after the final whistle.

Forecasters have warned of another night of heavy rain and thunderstorms after an overnight deluge unleashed flash floods across the country.

Earlier this week, on the 1 o’clock news, the CSO gave the latest prognosis for the population of Ireland.

A man has appeared at the Dublin District Court court over an aggravated burglary in the capital.