AS YOU may have gathered by now the Dublin restaurant scene is as vibrant as it has ever been and the great news is that the standards are staying high. If you want to experience it you could start at the bottom of South Great Georges Street and walk towards Rathmines and you will pass several excellent restaurants at all price ranges on this route alone.

British pub group JD Wetherspoon will open its first city centre pub in Dublin next week.

The group operates four suburban Dublin pubs and one in Cork city.

The charity ALONE, which supports older people living at home, says demand has never been greater but funds are running thin.

Three young Dublin men filmed themselves laughing and showing their bloodied fists after a “violent rampage” of assaults on bystanders in the city centre, a court has heard.

From Best Takeaway Pizza to Best Spicebag, the ‘steaks’ were high at last night's Just Eat National Takeaway Awards.

From Best Takeaway Pizza to Best Spicebag, the ‘steaks’ are high.

Four Irish restaurants are among the new names to be awarded Michelin Bib Gourmand status this year.

Veganism has taken off in Ireland alongside a huge surge in popularity worldwide.

British pub group JD Wetherspoon is set to hunt out more new sites here on the back of its Irish pubs outperforming its UK operations in a better-than-expected start to its financial year.

His name may be best known for fish and chips, but Leo Burdock was trying to batter Black & Tans in the War of Independence.

British pub chain JD Wetherspoon said its Irish efforts are “absolutely” concentrated on developing its long-sought €15m bar and hotel in Camden Street in Dublin, as its boss blasted “unelected oligarchs” from the EU for putting the bloc’s economy at risk over Brexit negotiations.

British pub group JD Wetherspoon is to spend €15m on developing its controversial site on Dublin’s Camden Street.

Up to 200 jobs are on the way to Dublin in a new bar and hotel from JD Wetherspoon.

Author Mary Rose Glennon claims she has been left with a €2m debt because of an alleged failure by a law firm to properly supervise her now deceased partner.

British pub group JD Wetherspoon is to focus its medium-term Irish growth plans on the Dublin area.

British pub chain JD Wetherspoon has been granted approval by Bord Pleanála to proceed with its plans for a €4m pub and hotel development on Dublin’s Camden Street.

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.

A resident has lodged an appeal against Dublin City Council’s approval for British pub chain JD Wetherspoon’s plan for a new superpub on Camden Street; telling Bord Pleanála permission would represent “an unwelcome milestone”.

The boss of British pub operator JD Wetherspoon has said “volatile” commercial property prices are putting the brakes on the company’s growth plans in Ireland.

Until 1916, this half brick formed part of the wall at Portobello Barracks, now Cathal Brugha Barracks, in Rathmines.

Roz Purcell, Natalie B Coleman, Elaine Crowley, Courtney Smith and Glenda Gilson reveal their favourite restaurants, bars and gyms in Dublin’s city centre.

A man on trial for the murder of a homeless man in the Phoenix Park allegedly said he would batter and torture him because he had money.

A man on trial for the murder of a homeless man in the Phoenix Park allegedly said he would batter and torture him because he had money.

A 29-year-old man has gone on trial for the murder of a homeless man who was allegedly beaten to death and set on fire in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

The numbers of assaults on our streets are increasing, and the vast majority of those assaults happen at the weekend.

A paper company in Dublin has come up with an innovative way to turn a negative into a positive.

A man has been questioned by gardaí in Dublin in connection with a serious assault on a man in the Camden Street area of the city on November 30 last year.

UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon is looking to open a 100-room hotel and pub in the heart of Dublin city after it acquired Camden Hall Hostel on one of the city’s busiest night-time streets. Wetherspoon is looking for revised planning permission for the complex as part of a €4m development of the site which it says will create up to 75 jobs.

JD Wetherspoon is reported to be in advanced talks to buy a development site on Dublin's Camden Street, and if the deal goes through the company is expected to build a hotel there.

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

Kenco has launched a multimedia campaign entitled ’Coffee vs Gangs’ to encourage young people in Honduras to choose coffee farming over joining a street gang.

Time to rise and shine!

THE advent of the smartphone has turned women in their 30s and 40s into casual gamers and made them a key target market for games companies such as SixMinute games in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a serious assault on Camden Street in the early hours of this morning.

Dublin City Council is spending almost €1,000 a week so that revellers do not have to spend a penny.

A 27-year-old man has appeared in court today charged with the murder of Gerard Donnelly, who was burned to death in the Phoenix Park.

A 27-year-old man remains in Garda custody this morning in connection with the murder of a man in the Phoenix Park in Dublin on Friday.

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

A man who celebrated after delivering a fatal punch in a “gratuitous” assault on journalist Eugene Moloney has been jailed for three and a half years.

A 22-year-old Dublin man is to be sentenced later today for killing journalist Eugene Moloney with a single blow to the neck.

Gardaí were in talks with the DPP last night on whether charges should be brought against a man for a serious sexual assault on a woman with special needs.

The brother of the late journalist Eugene Moloney has called his violent death senseless and unnecessary.