Depression, working mother guilt and working as a child to pay for her school uniform, the legendary Mary Black talks to Caroline O’ Doherty about her long-awaited autobiography.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

The Charlemont Street flats in Dublin are set to be demolished from today.

A Dublin landlord in contempt of court over a €7m debt to National Irish Bank has handed over his passport, having been briefly held under police supervision.

The jury in the trial of a Dublin man charged with murdering a 33-year-old four years ago has been hearing technical evidence about mobile phone data.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial has been shown CCTV footage of a 33-year-old man being shot in a city pub four years ago.

The year was 1916.

A former priest and convicted child abuser has been jailed for three years for possession of large amounts of child pornography.

IRELAND of the 1930s is often viewed as being chaste and straitlaced, with old Pathe newsreel images of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress dominating perceptions of the era.

A defrocked Irish priest has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

Four Dublin men have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court, charged with murdering a father-of-three in a city pub two years ago.

A defrocked priest accused of possessing thousands of pornographic images of children was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

A Dublin man has been jailed for two years after he planted two hoax bombs in the city centre causing residents to be evacuated and roads to be cordoned off for a total of five and half hours.

Gardaí are investigating a gun attack in Dublin city last night.

Additional charges were brought today against a defrocked priest accused of possessing thousands of pornographic images of children.

A defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, was remanded on continuing bail today pending directions from the DPP.

More charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two, a court heard today.

A 16-year-old boy awaiting sentence for possessing a flick knife has described one of the State's most secure juvenile detention centres as “too much of a holiday camp.”

A man who drove a stolen taxi directly at a Garda checkpoint and later swerved towards a patrol van after gardaí ran to avoid being hit has been sentenced to six years for this and other offences.

A Dublin teenager whose only male role models have spent "substantial" time in prison has been given a five-and-a-half-year sentence for possessing €75,000 worth of heroin while on bail.

A Dublin youth whose only male role models have spent "substantial" time in prison will be sentenced later for possessing €75,000 worth of heroin.

Fingleton’s pay package for 2008 totalled *2.34m. This was higher than his 2007 pay of *2.31m. He took the money although he must have known at that stage that the society’s profits for the year were collapsing and that the risks that much of the loans he had sanctioned will not be repaid.

A father-of-three gunned down in front of customers in a Dublin pub was a suspected major drug dealer, it emerged today.

Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a suspect device in Dublin last night.

The army bomb disposal team has given the all-clear following the discovery of a suspect package in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

DISGRACED Olympic swimmer Michelle Smith is in the running for the accolade of Ireland’s greatest woman after being nominated in a radio competition, it emerged yesterday.

Residents of Charlemont Street and Pearse Place in Dublin city centre have begun picketing part of the LUAS construction site.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has opened Dublin's first Digital Community Centre in Dolphin House, Rialto, Dublin 8.

WHEN the children playing near the Royal Canal in Dublin saw a suitcase floating in the grimy water, little did they know the Pandora's Box of crime, intrigue and deception they were about to open.

The girlfriend of a man who's body was found in a suitcase in the Royal Canal last summer, a case which mystified gardai for weeks, has been jailed for two years by Judge Yvonne Murphy.