Dr Ali Selim sparked controversy during his appearance on Prime Time when he claimed female circumcision was acceptable in some cases.

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

The Supreme Court has upheld an order requiring developer Gerry Gannon to pay an investment company €320,667 damages over his failure to complete the purchase of a lease for a building next door to his Dublin 4 headquarters.

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

A doctor charged with the murder of her three-year-old son in Dublin was too sick to attend a court hearing today, reports Tom Tuite.

It’s a small door, but it could lead to a big future.

A man who was caught running an online drug dealing network from a business premises in Dublin has failed to have his sentence reduced.

Easy enough to take for granted the loop Google and Twitter and Whatsapp and SkyGo keeps us in.

Collectors have plenty to choose from this May Bank Holiday weekend.

As many as 300 Paddy Power staff working in skilled roles across a range of departments are to lose their jobs as part the bookmaker’s €10bn merger with former rival Betfair.

Muslim leaders in Ireland have united to condemn the Brussels attacks but have urged people to view all terror atrocities, including recently in Turkey, as equally appalling.

Owen O’Callaghan’s planning application for another major office development on Cork’s south quays has been lodged.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of payment services giant Western Union increased by 9% last year to $38.39m (€34m), figures show.

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

Government ministers are continuing to provide contradictory views on whether a referendum on blasphemy will take place this year in light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings.

The level of state supports for the family of toddler Hassan Khan are set to be investigated following his shocking death.

"I remember her as a little child in my garden, she played together with my kids. And this is what was ahead. It’s heartbreaking."

A Dublin teenager who has spent over a year imprisoned without charge in Egypt has ended the hunger strike he began in his Cairo jail cell two weeks ago.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of Western Union decreased by 22% to $35.15m (€24.76m), last year.

Sean Cronin stares into the dregs of his Americano and up at the ceiling of the café in Clonskeagh as his thoughts slosh around and he struggles with a definitive answer.

Three Irish sisters are due to be released from prison in Egypt today.

Seán Hehir and Maria McCambridge capitalised on the domestic entry at the 34th Airtricity Dublin Marathon yesterday to become the first joint Irish winners since 1993 in two exciting duels that ebbed and flowed as record numbers took to the streets for the classic distance.

WE were all new to this country once. My people sailed into Cobh and built their churches on the hills of Cork. There weren’t too many Congregationalists round the city in the early years of the last century, but my grandfather integrated quickly.

A family murdered in a suspected revenge attack may have been the victims of mistaken identity, a neighbour has said.

Global pharmaceutical giant Novartis has selected Dublin’s Elm Park Business Campus, near St Vincent’s Hospital, as the home for its new regional business services centre.

Residential property prices in Dublin are rising at a rate not seen since the heady days of the Celtic Tiger — but prices elsewhere have begun to fall again.

Diplomatic efforts were continuing last night in a bid to ensure the safety of four Irish-Egyptian siblings who were among protestors arrested in Cairo at the weekend.

Jerry Gilson holds her grandfather’s All-Ireland football medal in her hand and suggests the white background of my notepad will help the picture I’m taking comes out right.

A global pay processing company is to create 30 jobs in Dublin.

The High Court has heard allegations that a company, part owned by brothers Edward and Oliver Garry, the latter a Fine Gael member of Clare County Council, had lost money through unauthorised withdrawals by directors of €400,000.

MID-December and Christmas mania is in full swing.

Around 600 new jobs are being created at Paddy Power in Dublin.

THE RAIN, it rains on the just and the unjust. And has been doing so forever. Complaining about the weather in Ireland is like Mrs Lincoln complaining about the play.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of money transfer giant, Western Union last year increased by 27% to $63.3m (€52.2m).

Would Charles J Haughey, the former taoiseach, be turning in his grave to know his beloved Abbeville is now home to six resident caretakers with access to all areas right across his former domain?

The former Minister for Health, Mary Harney, stated in the Dáil on Feb 23, 2010, that she has “ruled out an inquiry into symphysiotomy surgical operations”.

An Irish student has warned her fellow J1 travellers to beware of a widespread rental scam in the US that cost her and her friends almost $5,000 (€4,000).

One of the country’s most exclusive gyms and fitness centres, which is often used by Irish rugby players, must pay the man credited with making it a success almost €300,000 for unfair dismissal.

Almost 150 jobs are being created in three separate expansions, it has been revealed.

Dublin has seen the announcement of another 35 new jobs this morning.

Actor David Kelly got one final standing ovation as his coffin was carried out of his local parish church at the end of his funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

Stars of the stage and screen turned out today to bid a fond farewell to actor David Kelly.