A Green MEP has said someone should lose their job if they do not increase the number of people using public transport to head to Croke Park.

With Love Island promoting the perfect, groomed body, Deirdre Reynolds looks at the growing pressure on men to look their Instagram best

LP really should be a household name, says Ellie O'Byrne, after witnessing the American musician's incredible gig at the Olympia

A Dublin city centre-based personal injury solicitor has stated that he has no intention of moving his practice to facilitate the planned €10m revamp of the Mercantile Hotel.

Introducing the new queens of Christmas.

Ambitious new €75m re-development plans for the iconic Central Bank building that includes a new 360-degree 300-seater rooftop restaurant and bar have been given the green light.

Drumm also said he intended to go to “that fucking shower of clowns down in Dame Street,” to look for emergency funding for the bank, his trial has heard.

Plans for the College Green plaza in Dublin have been delayed.

The developers who have bought the old Central Bank on Dame Street in Dublin have revealed their plans for it.

To mark Father’s Day, Ruth O’Connor asks celebrities to write a letter to their dads. The emotional results reveal the incredible bond between Irish fathers and their sons.

Gardaí say they are investigating criminal damage at Dublin's best known gay pub, The George.

Latest: Organisers of the ninth anti-water charge protest in Dublin say "the people have won" but the Government is still trying to "steal their human right to water".

LATEST: The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is calling on the Government to tackle our gender pay gap.

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An anti-Trump demonstration is taking place in Dublin on Friday to coincide with the inauguration of the new US president.

Up to 120,000 visitors a year are expected to attend a free exhibition of the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s original manuscripts and unpublished poems in one of Dublin’s most historic buildings.

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Cases against two convicted criminals who re-offended while under suspended sentences have been dropped as a result of Tuesday's High Court ruling.

IF THE August 1915 funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was a portent of the Irish Volunteers’ military strength, British authorities were given an even clearer picture just five weeks before the Easter Rising began.

For the British, the importance of the successful defence of Trinity College during the rebellion can not be underestimated, writes assistant librarian at TCD, Ellen O’Flaherty

ONCE upon a time, there used to be a restaurant in Dublin by the name of Les Frère Jacques, an establishment overseen for almost 30 years by Jean Jacques Caillabet.

Roz Purcell, Natalie B Coleman, Elaine Crowley, Courtney Smith and Glenda Gilson reveal their favourite restaurants, bars and gyms in Dublin’s city centre.

The trial has begun of two men accused of raping a homeless woman in a hotel in Dublin city centre in March 2012.

It wasn’t me. No, no, it wasn’t me. It was the banks, the Central Bank, the ‘system’ — they were to blame for not stopping that unholy mess we now know as the financial crash.

The first thing that hits you on entering the Meeting House Restaurant – which opened very quietly before the end of last year – is the noise.

The departure of Patrick Honohan from the Central Bank caps a week where the Irish public saw the true reality of central bank independence.

A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

The Central Bank of Ireland is to spend €500,000 to move its iconic golden ball from outside its current headquarters on Dame Street in Dublin to its new base on North Wall Quay.

ISN’T Culture Night fantastic? I don’t know what it was like down your way, but throughout Dublin there was just an amazing buzz last Friday night. Queues everywhere to get into places like St Patrick’s Cathedral and the Dublinia exhibition, and throngs of people in the streets. There was an incredible downpour around half seven, but it didn’t seem to dampen anyone’s spirits.

A country music initiative aimed at getting Garth Brooks fans to visit Dublin despite the cancelled concerts, is being launched.

SODDEN, wet feet in smelly socks and squelching shoes remind me of secondary school.

One of Dublin’s main thoroughfares was brought to a standstill for almost five hours yesterday as a distressed man threatened to jump from the roof of a six-storey building.

College Green in Dublin has now reopened to traffic after being closed for a number of hours.

An incident on Dublin's Dame street is causing a traffic standstill in the area.

Great Music in Irish Houses fills a gap in the capital’s cultural life, writes Alan O’Riordan.

The completion of the ill-fated former Anglo Irish Bank building on Dublin’s North Wall Quay has moved a step closer.

The governor of the Central Bank has said he agrees with a judge’s withering attack on the former financial regulator over a loans-for-shares scam at Anglo Irish Bank.

Today is International Women's Day and thousand of events are being held across the globe to raise awareness of female issues.

Around 800 people in Dublin City centre have been affected by major power outages tonight.

Marathon legend Dick Hooper believes there is “a golden opportunity” for domestic winners of Monday’s Airtricity Dublin Marathon with no elite foreign entries toeing the line due to budgetary constraints.

Gardaí in Dublin have issued an appeal to the public for information about a serious assault on a woman in the city last weekend.