An estimated €100,000 worth of cannabis herb has been seized by gardaí in Dublin.

A local election candidate whose campaign posters have been defaced in racially motivated attacks yesterday pleaded with community leaders to condemn the vandalism.

A building company has sued Irish Asphalt Limited (IAL) for loss and damage for alleged deceit over putting on the market an in-fill product when it allegedly knew it was “not fit for purpose” and contained excessive amounts of reactive pyrite.

Close to 3,000 homes in the west of Dublin city were without power last night following an outage.

A car dealer who evaded paying €86,500 tax on high-end vehicles during the Celtic Tiger years has managed to avoid jail.

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An elderly woman died days after she was accidentally knocked down by her son, an inquest heard yesterday.

Irish Rail has is to increase its car-parking charges at train stations across the country, it was announced today.

TENS of thousands of homes were left without electricity yesterday as the remnants of Hurricane Katia pounded our shores.

THE number of young Irish footballers set to be lured by the prospect of full-time sport by AFL clubs will increase, according to sports agent Ricky Nixon.

A MAN who was caught with more than €1 million worth of cannabis resin in Cork was given an eight-year jail sentence with the second half of that suspended yesterday.

The remaining criminal charge against George Redmond has been dropped by the State.

The George Redmond corruption trial has ended with the jury acquitting him on one charge and failing to agree a verdict on the second count.

George Redmond has been acquitted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of receiving a £10,000-punt bribe from a Fianna Fáil councillor in 1980, the jury are still deliberating on a second charge.

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has retired to a hotel for the night before they resume their deliberations tomorrow.

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that "the core issue" for the jurors is to decide whether he told the truth to gardaí or later under oath to the Flood Tribunal.

The jury in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told that a person doesn't have to be dishonest to be corrupt.

Closing speeches have concluded in George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court with the prosecution telling the jury on day-15 of the trial that his actions "reeked of corruption".

The hearing of evidence has ended at George Redmond's corruption trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court and the concluding stages have now been reached.

The terms "bribery" and "corruption" were never raised in meetings in 1999 between George Redmond's solicitor and Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, who was then chief of the Criminal Assets Bureau, a court has heard today.

George Redmond's trial for accepting a bribe from Fianna Fáil Councillor Patrick Dunne has heard his tax return for 1990 stated he received Ir£10,000 in "gratuitous receipts" from someone with the initials "PD".

George Redmond told gardaí he regularly received large sums of money from people representing development companies his corruption trial has been told.

The Ir£10,000 corruption trial of George Redmond has continued again with legal issues in the absence of the jury on day nine of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Ir£10,000 corruption trial of George Redmond has continued on day-eight of the hearing in legal argument in the absence of the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The corruption trial of George Redmond at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has continued in legal argument and it is hoped to resume the hearing of evidence before the jury tomorrow

The corruption trial of George Redmond at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has continued in legal argument and the hearing of evidence is expected to resume today.

A jury in the corruption trial of former Dublin Assistant County Manager, Mr George Redmond, has been told he admitted to gardaí that he received money in relation to a compulsory purchase order on land.

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The trial of former Dublin Assistant County Manager, Mr George Redmond, on corruption charges is to ahead next March after Judge Joseph Matthews rejected an application by the defence to stay the proceedings.

The trial of former Dublin Assistant County Manager, Mr George Redmond, on corruption charges which was scheduled to begin on later this month has been adjourned again to a date to be fixed.

A man who brandished a knife to try and rob a woman at her home and later threatened two taxi drivers with what he claimed was "a needle full of AIDS" has been given five years in suspended sentences.

The trial of Mr George Redmond on corruption charges which was due to begin today/tomorrow has been adjourned until October next because of media reporting of evidence in the Mahon Tribunal which discredited him.

Votes cast in central Dublin constituencies could be counted in the Point Depot for the first time ever and may clash with a Girls Aloud concert, it emerged today.

An application to restrict the media from publishing material which may prejudice the upcoming trial of George Redmond has been made by the Director of Public Prosecutions at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

IARNRÓD Éireann’s corporate communications manager Barry Kenny, in his lambasting of economist Dr Seán Barrett (Irish Examiner letters, January 1), writes that “this country still suffers from an infrastructural deficit”, and by this he meant rail and bus infrastructure. I agree.

The trial of Mr George Redmond on corruption charges which was due to begin next Monday has been adjourned until May 2007 at the earliest because of a recent spate of "adverse media publicity".

A Clare man who was caught with over €1m worth of cannabis resin in Cork pleaded guilty this afternoon to having drugs for sale or supply.

A date in November has been set for the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of George Redmond on a corruption charge.

A new date for the trial of Mr George Redmond on a corruption charge will be set next month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An application to halt the trial of Mr George Redmond on a corruption charge due to adverse media publicity has been refused by Judge Joseph Matthews at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A scheduled three-day hearing of a motion on a legal issue brought by Mr George Redmond in relation to a corruption charge against him has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A young chef, who caused almost €4m damage when he burned Grainger’s public house and ‘B&B’ in Baldoyle to the ground, has been given a chance to escape jail.

UCC captured the All-Ireland Under 20 championship for the third time with a 38-13 domination of Belfast Harlequins at Coolmine today.

NEWBRIDGE College produced a stunning injury-time comeback to defeat Kilkenny College and advance to the Leinster Schools Section B Senior Cup semi-final at Portlaoise yesterday.