Gardai are investigating after a car was set on fire in Chapelizod in Dublin.

Crowds 10ft deep cheered as runners completed the final stretch of yesterday’s Dublin Marathon.

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The search of an area of west Dublin for the remains of Trevor Deely has ended without anything being found.

The search for Trevor Deely's remains at a site in Chapelizod in Dublin has concluded with nothing found.

The Garda Water Unit is now helping in the search for missing Kildare man Trevor Deely.

The garda search for the remains of Trevor Deely enters its fourth week in Chapelizod in Dublin tomorrow.

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Work on woodland that gardaí believe is connected to the disappearance of Trevor Deely will continue for a fourth day today as his family await news.

Latest: A man suspected to have been involved in the drugs trade and other serious crime is being linked to the disappearance of Trevor Deely 17 years ago.

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.

Gardaí are investigating an armed robbery in Dublin this afternoon.

A 13-year-old boy has died after a drowning accident in the Liffey this afternoon.

The High Court has heard that a boy suffered severe brain damage due to the lack of an appropriate intervention at Temple Street Children’s Hospital.

Reduced from a five-seater to four, Dublin South-Central has lost a population of more than 9,600 from Terenure and close to 3,000 in Kimmage.

PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

A kayaker who capsized and drowned had been paddling in fast-flowing rapids following heavy rain, an inquest has heard.

I’ve always been a bit of a showman deep down. My idea of misery is a world without music.

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If you are selling or donating your laptop or phone, have it wiped professionally, otherwise data can be retrieved years later, says John Hearne.

An out-of-work butcher caught with over €137,000 of heroin in his van has been spared jail after a judge accepted he was acting under duress.

EVERY day after lunch, teacher Margaret O’Riordan and her teenage students meditate for five minutes. The students love it.

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The Department of Education is to extend a survey on school patronage to 38 areas around the country.

Children from a mix of social, religious, and other backgrounds attend all primary schools but Catholic schools are still dominated by Catholic pupils, research shows.

Another area of Dublin has been included in the list of areas where parents will be surveyed on the possibility of replacing a Catholic primary school with a new patron.

Raidió na Gaeltachta’s Seán Bán Breathnach’s top tip would be to buy the local papers if you are driving through a place. Local journalists have a wealth of knowledge!

THOMAS WINTERS’ most magic moment was leading out Manchester United at Old Trafford with none other than his hero, Roy Keane, by his side.

Gardaí are appealing to people for information on a getaway car believed to have been used in last night's murder in west Dublin.

A murder investigation is underway in West Dublin after a man was shot dead in Clondalkin.

A 53-year-man has been shot dead in Clondalkin, West Dublin.

LONG confined as a footnote in Irish history, the role of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who fought and died in the First World War has finally been restored to the spotlight.

A JUDGE is to look at laws and charters going back to pre-Magna Carta days in a bid to settle a dispute over Dublin City Council’s legal right to lease out the fishing interests of the River Liffey.

A Dublin city councillor showed no remorse today when she was found guilty of assaulting former Health Minister Mary Harney who was splattered with red paint at a hospital last November.

In the first of a two-part Irish Examiner special investigation, we look at how we treat the most vulnerable in society.

ANNA Potiomicina held her daughter tightly as she tried to explain how health cutbacks at the Daughter’s of Charity service in Dublin would impact on her family.

Motorists were warned to avoid travelling today due to hazardous driving conditions as the big freeze continued into the New Year.

HUNDREDS of home owners and nursing home residents were unable to return to their houses in Co Kildare yesterday as flooding continued to blight parts of the country.

Emergency services were called to deal with a fire near the Kingston Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin last night.

GARDAÍ believe a woman found stabbed to death in a wooded area in the Phoenix Park may have been eastern European but are still attempting to identify her.

MYSTERY continues to surround the identity of a woman found stabbed to death on Wednesday afternoon in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

THREE men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28 million “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.

Three men have been convicted of carrying out a €2.28m “tiger kidnapping” robbery four years ago.