A 'Cars for Bars' initiative to bring people to and from pub in rural areas has been suggested by a minister.

A ‘Cars for Bars’ initiative to bring people to and from pub in rural areas has been suggested by a minister.

Luas drivers testing the new cross city line in Dublin are being blocked by cars and delivery vans.

The CEO of retailer Waterstones said yesterday that book sales are enjoying a rejuvenation and “it is happy times for booksellers”.

The owner of the Dublin city centre property which housed the La Stampa restaurant, bar, and hotel claims AIB advertised them for sale at up to €7.5m less than their value.

Kerry senator Paul Coghlan has called for “repulsive sprays” to be used against problem seagulls in Dublin city centre, as they “wreak havoc with their beaks” ripping rubbish bags.

A small printing press in the home of Joseph Plunkett was responsible for one of the most controversial documents in Irish history.

An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and some of the behind the scenes planning of the Rising which was certainly "NOT in the news" of the time.

A Co Meath insurance broker who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud has been ordered to perform 240 hours unpaid work in the community in addition to a four-year suspended sentence.

The Government has been accused of an “inexcusable” lack of leadership after it emerged that there are 2,600 vacant units across the country in council ownership, despite a mounting homelessness crisis.

A Meath insurance broker who took out 38 fictitious policies in order to be paid commission totalling €109,000 will be sentenced in October.

Feeding Nidge and the other screen gangsters of RTÉ’s Love/Hate proved to be a lucrative business for Fitzers Catering in 2013.

A homeless deaf mute man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing an acquaintance by knocking him under a bus in Dublin on December 2012.

The landlord of Dublin’s Café en Seine bar is refusing to consent to a bank-appointed receiver’s proposed assignment of a lease on the premises so it can be sold for €5m, it was claimed in the Commercial Court yesterday.

Weekend food columnist and McKenna’s Guide contributing editor Joe McNamee is back with his annual accolades. Read on for his best in fine dining, pub grub, afternoon tea and much more, in Cork and around the country.

A homeless man who killed an acquaintance by knocking him under a Dublin Bus in the city centre a year-and-a-half ago may avoid a jail term.

A 68-year-old man was arrested yesterday after a car was driven through the locked front gates of Trinity College Dublin.

A number of books of condolence are open around the country for people to express their sympathies on the death of Nelson Mandela.

First it was Only a Game, now Eamon Dunphy has travelled The Rocky Road in the first half of his memoirs, with the iconoclastic journalist and broadcaster still raging against the dying of the light.

The firm which operates the Milano restaurant chain sustained a marginal decrease in pre-tax profits in its most recent financial year, according to newly- filed accounts.

A deaf man replied “I am sorry about him, it was an accident” when he was charged with killing a man who died after he was hit by a bus in Dublin City centre.

Gardaí are still seeking witnesses to the horror accident in Dublin city centre last week in which a man was crushed by a bus after a row involving a number of homeless people.

A man is due in court tomorrow morning in relation to the death of another man in Dublin city centre on Thursday.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man in his 20s after the death of another man in Dublin city centre on Thursday.

A homeless man who was killed by a double-decker bus was trying to escape a robbery by two other street people, it emerged yesterday.

Gardaí are investigating whether a man who died after being hit by a bus in Dublin last night fell in front of the vehicle after being struck during a fight.

There is “no recession in Irish, quality food”, according to John McKenna, author of the national food bible, The Irish Food Guide.

Take that, rain. The homecoming for Ireland’s Olympians began as a washout but, with a flash of gold, the downpour stopped, proving that a storm is no match for medal-winning boxers.

Team Ireland's 66 Olympians arrive home at lunchtime today with their five Olympic medals.

THE ballroom in Leinster House is as appropriate a place as any to receive the grandmaster of the Orange Order Edward Stevenson at noon today.

THE HIGH Court will be asked on Monday to make orders for the winding up of four of the 14 companies in the Thomas Read group on the grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

Dublin’s Luas light rail system made a profit a full year ahead of schedule, making it the only transport network in the country not in need of Government subsidies, it was revealed today.

Dublin Bus has claimed its services will be adversely affected if the expected route of the new LUAS line in Dublin is approved.

Brian O'Meara returns to the extended Leinster Squad as there is a doubt over the participoation of Guy Easterby for the visit of Glasgow Warriors in Pool 5 of the Heineken Cup Pool at The RDS on Saturday.