Two men are being questioned by gardaí following an operation targeting dissident republicans in central Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested two men after suspected explosive devices were seized in Dublin's north inner city.

Update April 5, 8.15am: Derek Cleary has been found safe and well.

A car linked to an alleged tiger kidnapper was spotted by gardaí near the scene of the crime shortly beforehand, a trial has heard.

A man has been stabbed to death in Dublin tonight.

A Dublin man accused of vandalising the headstone of former president and taoiseach Éamon de Valera told gardaí he was guilty, a court has heard.

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Mian Mujahid Ali Shahid, the Pakistani national who was taken off a plane for Dubai at Dublin Airport on Monday night, has been remanded in custody until today to appear before an extradition court at the Criminal Courts of Justice.

The victim in a mobile phone mugging turned the tables on his attacker by tackling the man to the ground and taking his phone instead, a court has heard.

The victim in a mobile phone mugging turned the tables on his attacker by tackling the man to the ground and taking his phone instead, a court has heard.

Two masked men entered a house and took the keys of a Mercedes car last night , which was later crashed in an industrial estate.

Three men remain in custody this morning following the seizure of €25,000 worth of cannabis in North Dublin.

Gardaí have issued an appeal over a Dublin woman missing since Thursday.

A Dublin man poured petrol on himself outside a garda station and threatened to set himself on fire, a court has heard.

Three men in their early 30's remain in Garda custody this morning, in connection with a cash-in-transit robbery in Dublin yesterday evening.

Three men in their early 30s have been arrested following the robbery of a cash-in-transit delivery in Dublin this afternoon.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking public assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a 69 year-old woman.

Former Fianna Fáil minister of state Ivor Callely has been returned for trial accused of making a series of bogus mobile phone expense claims when he was a member of Seanad.

Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely is to stand trial accused of making a series of bogus mobile phone expense claims when he was a member of the Seanad.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously injured in a collision at Clontarf Road in Dublin this morning.

Three men have been arrested following an armed robbery in Dublin last night.

Gardaí are investigating the shooting of a man in Dublin last night.

A man and a woman have been released without charge by gardaí investigating the murder of Eamon Kelly.

A post mortem examination will take place on the body of crime boss Eamon Kelly at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin today.

A local Real IRA boss was being questioned last night in relation to yesterday’s gangland murder of veteran republican and criminal Eamon Kelly.

A well-known criminal was shot this afternoon in the Clontarf area of north Dublin, gardaí have confirmed.

A man in his 30s has been arrested in Dublin today in connection with a shooting incident in the city last year.

Gardaí are hunting for an armed gang who stole a substantial sum of money from a Supervalu supermarket in north Dublin yesterday evening.

Gardaí have arrested a man, in connection with an armed raid in north Dublin this evening.

A former addict whose plan to commit a robbery to repay a €40,000 drug debt was foiled by armed gardai has been given an eight year sentence.

The State Pathologist has said a Dublin man, stabbed as he attempted to make his get away following a supermarket raid, died from three deeply penetrating stab wounds to the chest which pierced both his lungs and caused him to bleed out.

A Dublin man on trial for the murder of a supermarket raider told gardaí he stabbed him twice with a knife to calm him down but he never meant to kill him the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A MAN in his 20s was due to appear in court this morning in connection with a serious assault which left a Polish man in a critical condition in hospital.

The shooting of three people outside a pub in Fairview, Dublin owned by an international footballer may be linked to a turf war by door security firms, detectives signalled today.

Gardaí in Dublin have discovered a burnt-out car, believed to be the one used by those involved in a shooting incident last night in which three men were injured, two critically.

A Longford man who assaulted medics from two fire brigade ambulance crews called to assist him during one night of drunken aggression has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A MASSIVE Garda investigation into the biggest bank robbery in recent years stepped up a gear yesterday with the arrest of a Bank of Ireland employee.

THE murder of a hardened criminal in north Dublin at the weekend – the fifth killing so far this year – is being blamed on a local feud.

MURDER accused Eamonn Lillis told gardaí how his affair with a beauty therapist – which began just 10 weeks before his wife died – was part of “a mid-life crisis”, the jury at his trial heard yesterday.

GARDAÍ investigating the killing of a young man who was badly beaten on a Dublin street last weekend are confident arrests will be made.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a serious assault in Marino in the early hours of this morning.