British pub group JD Wetherspoon said it remains hopeful it will be granted permission to open new bars at Abbey Street and Camden Street in Dublin, as well as developing two more sites in Carlow and Waterford.

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Gardaí in Cork are appealing for information about the fire at the N Square Steakhouse & Seafood Restaurant in Cork city on Wednesday, June 8.

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Concerns of an over-concentration of pubs in the Camden St area of Dublin have resulted in British pub operator JD Wetherspoon’s plans for a €4m bar and hotel development being put on hold.

Victoria Curtis is a bit of tomboy. She likes to dress in jeans and wears her hair cut short. In other words, as she puts it herself, she is “identifiably gay”.

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A garda yesterday claimed before the High Court when he was off duty, he was rugby tackled to the ground by other gardaí, handcuffed, and arrested after querying the price of a taxi home.

A homeless man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a father of one, whose body he then set on fire in a Dublin park.

Pub giant JD Wetherspoon has said it may open an outlet in Waterford by the end of this year following its recent acquisition of two prominent city centre sites, with 40 jobs linked to the move.

Dublin’s Merrion Square West has retained its status as the capital’s top clamping blackspot for catching motorists without valid parking tickets.

A private language school estimated to owe its overseas students up to €500,000 has applied for voluntary liquidation despite proposing, at the time of its shock closure last November, to reopen this week.

A man in his 20s is seriously ill in hospital after an early-morning assault in Dublin that left him with head injuries.

The mock-up restaurant in which the hit television drama Raw was shot for RTÉ is to become a reality.

Former Dublin county manager Garda Paul Caffrey told a former player of his it would be a “good idea” to apologise after an alleged assault that took place during a league match, a court has heard.

A drugs squad Garda has been spared a criminal conviction for trespassing at a house in Dublin after he had an argument with a woman.

ALL shopping records were broken in Dublin in the run-up to Christmas 1954. In the midst of the hectic shopping bonanza, however, there was alarm when baby Patrick Berrigan was kidnapped the Saturday before Christmas.

Secretly, I always wanted to give stand-up a shot. I was, depending on the class, relatively funny in school.

A computer has helped a pensioner discover his father’s amazing role in the 1916 Rising, and now he wants families nationwide to find out more of their own family histories ahead of the centenary in 2016.

They’ve undergone some of the most brutal training regimes known to man, and steamed into warzones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but it seems Dublin’s party hubs were too much for the US navy to handle.

A series of costcutting measures at Age Action Ireland, including a 5% pay cut and two weeks’ unpaid leave for all staff, helped towards turning around the organisation’s finances last year.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men in connection with the murder of a man in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí are considering launching a murder investigation after a respected journalist died from injuries received in Dublin city centre yesterday morning.

A fire broke out overnight at a derelict building in Dublin city centre, causing extensive damage to the structure.

A protest by a group called ‘The Irish Taxi Council’ caused severe traffic delays for Dublin commuters from 8am right through the day, and on into evening rush hour, according AA Roadwatch.

Three people have been hospitalised following a third bus crash in Dublin this morning.

Gardaí today issued an appeal over an assault outside a popular Dublin night-spot which left a young man seriously ill.

A Dublin man who was spotted by gardaí carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle in a sports bag in a city centre street was jailed for four years by the Special Criminal Court today.

A Dublin man pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court today to having a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition in the city centre last November.

A Dublin man charged with having a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition in the city and with membership of the INLA was further remanded in custody before the Special Criminal Court yesterday.

A Dublin man was charged at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court today with having a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition in the city on Thursday and with membership of the INLA.

Gardaí in Dublin are questioning a 22-year-old man following the seizure of an assault rifle in the city centre last night.

The Green Party will launch a document on urban planning today, in a Dublin cake shop.

Three Dublin retailers have been convicted of pricing offences following prosecutions taken by the Director of Consumer Affairs and the National Consumer Agency.