Two men have been hospitalised after being attacked in Dublin city centre.

A new pub enjoys cool vibes and tasty drinks with a difference — there’s no alcohol. Jonathan deBurca Butler samples the atmosphere at the innovative Dublin establishment.

Panti Bliss has been forced to postpone the opening of her new bar in Dublin amid fears over fire safety.

Seamus O’Brien was barely a teenager when his brother Pascal arrived back home from seminary one time to usher him and another brother Brendan out the door and on to a train bound for Kingsbridge Station in Dublin.

CORK’S Oliver Plunkett Street has been rightly praised for the diversity of its shops and its character and I’ve been trying and failing to think of a Dublin equivalent.

Leslie Williams reviews The Ramen Bar Okoro Bento, Dublin.

An environmental engineer has been spared a jail sentence for assaulting a solicitor with an umbrella after they bumped into each other on a rainy evening in Dublin.

Political leaders, Rising relatives, the Defence Forces, and public servants joined together yesterday in an historic 1916 commemoration that repeatedly sought to include all parts of Irish society.

One of the key commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising centenary has taken place with President Michael D Higgins honouring all those who fought and died for Irish freedom.

Firefighters were called after a taxi caught fire in Dublin city centre today.

A Meath resident who stars in a TV programme about prisoners and their families has avoided a jail term for a raid and an attempted raid over two years ago.

A seriously ill former property developer has been jailed for one year after he admitted evading over €1.5m in tax.

Gay rights activist Rory O'Neill has said the presence of Taoiseach Enda Kenny in a gay bar last night "is a first...that shows how times have changed".

Irish sportswear firm, O’Neill’s has just opened a sales office in Australia in a bid to take advantage of the emigrant dollar there.

SODDEN, wet feet in smelly socks and squelching shoes remind me of secondary school.

THE Dublin restaurant and café scene is really humming once again.

The Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has said it ordered overnight surveillance clearance sweeps on its Dublin offices because it feared “exceptionally informed” comments aired in public had been leaked from its headquarters.

Simon O’Brien, the head of the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc), suspects its headquarters have been placed under surveillance and he is looking internally for the spy.

The difference between last week’s big story — Pantigate — and this week’s — the alleged bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (GSOC) office — is about 100 yards.

A man has avoided jail after he stole mor ethan €10,000 from the organisation which runs the annual Gay Pride Parade while he worked there as financial director.

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DUBLIN is crawling out from the collapsed dreams of the Celtic Tiger, fizzing with energy and new openings, and preferring ideas to greed, imagination to rampant development.

They’ll converge on The Boar’s Head in Capel Street this evening and tomorrow morning, Cavan and Kerry supporters alike arguing the toss over the tavern’s true identity.

Luas Red Line services in Dublin have been restored following an earlier collision between a car and a tram in the city centre.

Nostalgic TV has had a positive effect on men’s fashion, says Dave Kenny, who visits Louis Copeland to hear plans for an Irish tailoring academy

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Hopes of a major revival in the property market might seem somewhat premature after more than a quarter of lots at a major public auction in Dublin yesterday were either withdrawn or failed to sell.

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing in Dublin last night.

A struck-off solicitor who defrauded his clients and company of more than three quarters of a million euro has today been jailed for three and a half years.

The owner of a chain of headshops has been jailed for two years today for illegally importing Viagra-like products.

The owner of a chain of headshops faces up to 10 years for illegally importing Viagra-like products.

Businesses leaders have hit back at a survey which found parts of the capital were a litter blackspot.

Part of the Quays in Dublin city centre is closed this morning after a pedestrian was hit by a car.

I HEARD the great American sports writer Jerry Izenberg blow the dust of some great tales this week on Newstalk’s Off the Ball programme.

DENIS O’BRIEN and Dermot Desmond are among those investing in a Facebook-type website targeting the 70 million “Irish” worldwide.

A solicitor has been sent forward for trial today on charges of stealing €500,000 from client accounts.

LOOKING through your fingers as the nation’s artistic reputation is dragged further down the gutter?

THE first national multi-disciplinary service dedicated to adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has opened in Dublin.

ONE of Ireland’s longest-established jewellers is to expand in Dublin, through the acquisition of a key Grafton Street premises.

The former home of an iconic Grafton Street jeweller is set to reopen.

SO, at long last, the rogue Gulf of Mexico oil-well has been capped.

A Polish man charged with threatening to petrol bomb a head shop in Dublin city centre is to face trial before a judge and jury.