A Range Rover worth an estimated €140,000 was one of 21 vehicles seized in a massive operation targeting organised crime and the bogus motor trade.

A rental portfolio of 1,170 new homes in Dublin, as yet unbuilt and set for four city sites, is being offered to the investment market from this week, with over €425 million in funding sought, and the promise of over €20m-plus in rents.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public's help in finding a missing teenager.

Two of the country’s largest local authorities are to explore the option of developing Columbarium memorial walls to accommodate cremation urns and caskets in light of a shortage of grave plots.

Deaf rights campaigners have pleaded for official recognition for Irish Sign Language to help prevent more tragedies such as the lonely deaths of brothers Daniel and William McCarthy.

Update: 6.05pm ALONE, the charity that supports older people to age at home, is urging older people who may be feeling lonely or isolated not to be afraid to ask for the help.

A manhunt is underway in Dublin after shots were fired overnight.

Latest: The fire at an ESB substation in Bluebell has now been extinguished, Dublin Fire Brigade has confirmed.

Some 35 high-powered vehicles, nine Rolex watches, and €30,000 in cash, with a total value of around €1m was seized yesterday in an operation targeting a gang involved in a murderous feud.

There will be little sympathy for former IFA General Secretary Pat Smith, who received a well-buttered exit, says Gerard Howlin.

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.

Three men have been arrested in connection with an attempted robbery at a business in Bluebell in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí in Dublin said they are surprised that criminals are using assault weapons – similar to those used by the Irish army.

Protests against the installation of water meters have moved to Drimnagh and Bluebell in Dublin this morning.

A Cork woman whose father was killed in a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in 1980 said the arrest of his accused killer in the US is the first step toward justice.

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has announced that his son Lorcán has been found safe and well.

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has issued a public appeal for information on the whereabouts of his teenage son.

A teenager stabbed in Dublin last night is in a serious condition in hospital this morning.

A girl who injured her elbow when her electric scooter hit a raised section of footpath in Dublin has settled a High Court damages action for €125,000.

A 49-year-old Dublin man has received a three-year suspended sentence for sending crude text messages with a strong sexual content to a 15-year-old boy.

A Dublin man charged with the murder of veteran criminal Eamon Kelly appeared briefly via video link at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Border Fox, Dessie O’Hare, was one of the chief mourners yesterday at the funeral of murdered criminal Eamon Kelly.

Gardaí investigating the murder of the drug dealer Eamon Kelly have arrested six people.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has today apologised to the children and parents at a Dublin school which has not been able to afford to fix its boiler for five weeks.

A school in Dublin has been forced to tell children to leave their coats on in class - because the heating is broken.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a man whose skeletal remains were found in the Dublin Mountains earlier this month have made an arrest.

GARDAÍ believe there is a “strong possibility” the skeletal remains of a man found in the Dublin mountains are that of missing 28-year-old James Kenny McDonagh.

The body of missing Naas woman Mary Prendergast has been found, gardaí said.

Three men have been arrested by gardaí investigating last night's shooting in Dublin.

A DUBLIN man has been jailed for 10 years after he pleaded guilty to firearms and drug offences.

A Dublin man has been jailed for 10 years after he pleaded guilty to firearms and drug offences.

GARDAÍ suspect the latest gangland murder victim was not the intended target.

FOUR men who brought High Court challenges against the legality of their prison detention on public order charges arising out of protests over the visit of Queen Elizabeth have been released on bail.

A 20-year-old Dublin man who knocked down his neighbour leaving him brain damaged and in a coma, is due to be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow.

A 19-year-old youth has pleaded guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a man who was left brain damaged following a suspected hit-and-run in Dublin last year.

A GARDA hunt for a missing criminal, suspected of being murdered, is at a standstill after searches near his burnt out car drew a blank.

A CONVICTED gunman, currently on bail for a firearms charge, was arrested by gardaí after he opened fire during a post-funeral drink-fuelled row.

A young Palestinian man who led pursuing gardaí and the garda helicopter on a high speed chase through the city centre, driving on the pavement and the wrong way up one-way streets, has received a two-year suspended sentence.

THE number of abandoned horses found in the country’s largest local authority area last year has soared to 349, mainly thanks to schoolchildren buying them before turning them loose.

A Dublin youth charged with attempted murder in connection with a suspected hit-and-run, which left a man brain damaged, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin youth, who has been charged with attempted murder over a suspected hit-and-run which left a man brain damaged, was remanded on bail today pending the preparation of a book of evidence.

A Dublin youth was remanded in custody today after he was charged with attempted murder in relation to a suspected hit-and-run, which left a man brain damaged.