Sites in Blanchardstown and Belcamp in Dublin are not right for the new National Children's Hospital, according to the Master of the Rotunda hospital, Sam Coulter Smith.

A Government TD has backed reports that a greenfield site in North Dublin is now one of the favoured locations for the new National Children's Hospital.

A ‘top dog’ in a criminal gang is being questioned by gardaí on suspicion of supplying pipe bombs to other gangs across Dublin.

The Mater Hospital’s role as the preferred location for a new national children’s hospital is coming under pressure after it emerged a greenfield site near the M50 on Dublin’s northside is being seriously considered.

Up to 25 people have been arrested in Coolock in connection with a Garda investigation into drug dealing in the north Dublin suburb.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault on a security man in north Dublin.

THE inadequacy of the indemnity deal negotiated between the Government and the religious orders in 2002 is underscored by the fact these congregations made €468m by selling property after signing their agreement with the Department of Education.

RELIGIOUS congregations responsible for abusing children in residential homes made €667 million in property deals between 1999 and 2009.

A 22-year-old north Dublin man whose trial was conducted in an “atmosphere of intimidation” has been jailed for 10 years for attempting to murder another man over a €200 drug debt.

Army bomb disposal experts are examining a suspect device found in the Finglas area of north Dublin this morning.

A father of one who rammed a garda vehicle off the road and attempted to drive straight into another during a high-speed chase in a stolen car has been sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Patricia Ryan.

Another jury will be sworn in next week for the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering fellow prisoner Gary Douche in Mountjoy, it emerged this afternoon.

The Taoiseach and the Minister for Children are launching a €36m intervention project for children living in areas of severe disadvantage.

THE Government yesterday confirmed that it plans to shut down St Patrick’s Institution — but it did not say when.

FAMILIES of cocaine addicts in debt to drug dealers are being terrorised and their homes shot at, community activists said yesterday.

By Caroline O’Doherty

GARDAÍ are to continue the search today for a robber who fled the scene of a fatal car crash in Co Louth at the weekend which left one of his accomplices dead.

Dublin Corporation has discovered an illegal dump site in the north of the city containing hazardous hospital waste.