Dublin Fire Brigade had a very busy Halloween night receiving more than 600 calls.

Ireland has the third longest jail terms for convicted terrorists in the EU, according to a report.

Nine men have been arrested in Dublin in connection with ongoing investigations into dissident republican activity.

Gardaí are investigating the cause of the fire at a property on the Old Swords Road in Dublin.

Over 40,000 residents and businesses in north Dublin can expect water disruption over the next two days.

Broadcaster Gerry Ryan will be laid to rest following funeral mass in Clontarf in Dublin later this morning.

THOUSANDS of mourners are expected to descend on the Dublin suburb of Clontarf today as Gerry Ryan is laid to rest in his local church.

THE Mahon Tribunal into alleged planning corruption effectively ended after more than 10 years of investigation — and at a likely final cost of €300 million.

A considerable sum of money is believed to have been stolen during a raid on a cash-in-transit van near Dublin Airport this morning.

THE Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday about a businessman who believed he quit a property company in the mid-1990s only to find he was still listed as a director six years later.

A Co. Wicklow man was jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court today after he admitted explosives and ammunition charges.

UNSUSPECTING motorists have been stung after selling their cars for stolen bank drafts.

A gang who brutally battered an Estonian man to death as they hijacked his car may have struck before, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ have arrested two men in the Coolock area of Dublin in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man during a car hijacking near Dublin Airport early yesterday.

A gang who brutally battered an Estonian man to death as they hijacked his car may have struck before, it was revealed today.

A 28-year-old man has died following a serious assault near Dublin Airport last night.

AS MUCH as 5% of the money raised to fund Fianna Fáil came through a bill-paying system known as “pick-me-ups” (PMUs), the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

SOLICITOR Denis Murnaghan told the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday he warned backers, of an industrial project near Dublin Airport, “to have nothing to do” with lobbyist Frank Dunlop.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was “very much in evidence” at a Fianna Fáil fundraiser attended by land speculators whose north Dublin property rezoning is being probed by the Mahon Planning Tribunal, it emerged yesterday.

JUDGE Gerald Keys of the Mahon Planning Tribunal suggested yesterday councillors might have acted irresponsibly by ignoring safety fears when they voted to rezone land near Dublin Airport in 1993.

FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen yesterday defended his backing for a commercial enterprise near Dublin Airport headed by a businessman from a Fianna Fáil family.

Minister for Finance Brian Cowen today told a planning tribunal he granted a private company right-of-way across state lands after an intervention from former Labour leader Ruairi Quinn.

FORMER supermarket boss Ben Dunne — who admitted giving the late Taoiseach Charles J Haughey up to £2 million — is due to give evidence to the Mahon Tribunal now investigating the rezoning of land near Dublin Airport.

Environmental health inspectors have shut down an Indian takeaway, a fast food outlet, a restaurant and a pub bar for food safety breaches, it emerged today.

GARDAÍ carried out searches at a Dublin hospital following the arrest of one of its employees in a major drugs operation, it emerged yesterday.

Two men remain in Garda custody this morning after being arrested following a major cannabis seizure in north Co Dublin yesterday.

GARDAÍ yesterday seized €2.8 million worth of drugs along with a firearm and ammunition in an operation targeting a north Dublin gang.

An American man was tonight being questioned by gardai after customs officers at Dublin Airport found he had swallowed 80 pellets of cocaine valued at €56,000.

Gardaí in Co Dublin have arrested two men aged 41 and 24 following the seizure of 400 kilos of cannabis near the M50 motorway this morning.

THE £2.8 million Brinks Allied cash robbery in January 1995 was one of the most cash-rich crimes of its kind witnessed in this country.

More than 110,000 rock fans were expected to descend on Phoenix Park today for a mega-concert headlined by the Pixies and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

A drug addict who slashed a man eight times with a knife after breaking into his house in Swords has been jailed for seven years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Limerick man was convicted by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today of membership of the Continuity IRA last year.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed to 135,000 Robbie Williams fans to arrive early for the biggest rock concert in Irish history.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due to open a new stretch of the M1 motorway in north Co Dublin today.

THE final stretch of Ireland’s longest motorway will be officially opened by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today.

£400m of European money has been confirmed to fund structural projects in Ireland.