Transport bosses are considering a plan to extend the Luas on the north side of Dublin City.

A drugs haul worth more than €5m has been seized in a series of raids in Dublin in which five people were arrested, the Gardaí have said.

More than 100,000 people in Dublin are living and sleeping with noise pollution.

Gardaí in Dublin are trying to figure out a motive for this morning’s fatal shooting on the northside of the city.

A post-mortem examination has been carried out on the body of a woman discovered in Dublin yesterday.

A post mortem is getting underway this morning on the body of a woman found in north Dublin yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí are awaiting the formal identification of a woman's body found in north Dublin today.

The body of a dead woman has been found in Ballymun.

A student who caused a taxi driver to crash his car by choking him from the back seat has avoided jail after agreeing to pay €8,000 in compensation.

Two youths charged with the manslaughter of a man who died after an assault in north Dublin on St Patrick’s Day last year were served with books of evidence today and returned for trial.

Two youths have been charged today with the manslaughter of a man who died after an assault in north Dublin on St Patrick’s Day last year.

It has emerged this afternoon that an improvised explosive device, which the Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe earlier, was viable.

An investigation has been launched after two viable improvised devices were discovered in a derelict building in Dublin yesterday evening.

GARDAÍ say a missing woman, whose skeletal remains are believed to have been found on Wednesday, most likely died after falling into a hollow as she walked home in August 2007.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a man in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin are expected to launch a murder inquiry after a man assaulted by up to two other men last night died this afternoon.

A man is in serious condition after an assault in Ballymun last night.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses following the assault of a man last night.

Water supplies that have been disrupted in parts of Dublin by a burst watermain should be back to normal by 8pm this evening.

Flooding across Dublin has subsided significantly after torrential rainfall overnight.

Rush-hour motorists face traffic chaos today after severe thunderstorms flooded roads across the capital.

Gardaí are renewing their appeal for help in tracing the whereabouts of a missing Dublin woman.

A teenage gang’s race hate attack on a Bangladeshi national has been described by a judge as “downright thuggery” and compared to being “like terriers after a rat”.

CONSUMERS spent more than €7 million on new potatoes last year — and they are expected to fork out even more this season.

An English-registered construction company has been fined €250,000 for breaching safety regulations on a building site where a Monaghan drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

A Swords man who told the security guard of a supermarket he had just robbed that he knew where he lived and would shoot him if he did not let let him go free has been given a three-year sentence.

An English-registered construction company has been convicted of breaching safety regulations on a Dublin building site where a drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

A forensic engineer has described a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations as having "a culture of safety far beyond the minimum required by legislation".

A health and safety inspector has revealed at the trial of a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations that three safety groups operated on a site where a drainage pipe layer died five years ago.

WHY do we have so many ramps on our roads — even on main roads?

AN ARMED gang escaped with substantial cash after raiding a cash-in-transit van yesterday.

A manhunt was launched today for three raiders who held up a cash-in-transit van in central Dublin this morning.

SIPTU is calling for an urgent review of safety in the security sector following an armed raid on a cash-in-transit van this morning.

A three-man gang has escaped with a substantial sum of money following an armed raid on a cash-in-transit van in north Dublin this morning.

A YOUNG man and a teenage girl who sustained fatal injuries when the stolen car in which they were travelling spun out of control and struck a lamppost were involved in three other collisions and were chased at high speed by a Garda patrol car prior to the fatal incident, an inquest heard yesterday.

Gardaí in Dublin have said they fear for the safety of a 58-year-old woman, who's been missing now for 11 days.

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for public help in tracing the whereabouts of Bernie Gavan.

A decision is due today on whether the Swedish furniture store Ikea will get the green light for a West Dublin development.

Three people have lost their lives on Ireland's roads this bank holiday weekend, bringing the death toll for the year to 244.

A SIGNIFICANT number of arrests for drink driving were reported over the bank holiday, as Operation Surround kicked into action for the last of the big summer motoring weekends.

A pedestrian in his 40s has been killed after he was hit by a car in Ballymun on the north side Dublin city last night.

A British-based construction firm was today fined €40,000 for a health and safety breach which led to the death of a four-year-old child.

DUBLIN lost one of its most famous, if unloved, landmarks yesterday with the demolition of the Seán McDermott tower in Ballymun.