More than 26,000 residents will live within a 15-minute walk of a new Luas line when it starts running today.

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has acquitted a second Dublin student who was accused of an assault which has resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.

A man paralysed following an assault was among a south Dublin estate gang that earlier attacked a rival group which included one of the two accused men in a trial, a jury has been told.