The family of a woman who died from a form of cancer linked to asbestos say she may have been exposed to the material during the construction of a Dublin flat complex.

Incentive payments for first-time buyers to purchase newly built homes will be finalised for the budget.

HEROIN, a play about addiction to the drug, and written by artist and activist, Grace Dyas, is coming to Cork as part of a national tour.

The country’s top judge has said she was delighted that the Government had earmarked a site for the construction of a dedicated courts complex to deal with family-related cases.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating an aggravated burglary at a house in Rialto.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

People living in 20 of the most run-down housing complexes in the country have taken a landmark fight for basic living conditions to Europe.

Gardaí are on the hunt for a suspected drug dealer who failed to show up for a court appearance today in Dublin today.

Two men are due in court later this morning in connection with a major drugs bust on Dublin's southside.

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with a major drugs bust in Rathcoole, Dublin.

Parent representatives have reacted with a mixture of anger and relief to news that a national children’s hospital site has been chosen after almost two decades of delays.

Things are so bad in ground flat number 16, even the dog has had a bout of pneumonia.

Children are missing out on school as a result of dire living conditions, according to a report on Dolphin House on Dublin's South Circular Road.

Two youths have been charged after a Brazilian man was pepper-sprayed, attacked and robbed in Dublin last night.

A BURNS victim who needs to shower several times a day because of his injuries was left by Dublin City Council to live in conditions unfit for human habitation, a judge said yesterday.

A young Dublin man caught storing heroin valued at over €28,000 in a bedroom has been jailed for five years.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter has warned barristers and solicitors not to “hype acrimony” in family law cases, claiming too many cases were entering the legal system when they could instead be resolved through mediation.

A WOMAN and her three young children are being forced to leave their mould-infested home by night and sleep elsewhere due to health concerns linked to the condition of the flat.

RESIDENTS of damp, mouldy and smelly flats in Rialto in Dublin plan to deliver evidence of their living conditions to Dublin City Council today.

A drug addict who briefly drove a Dublin Bus after assaulting the driver and later committed a robbery has been given a three-and-a-half-year sentence.

DANIEL McAnaspie was no stranger to the courts in Dolphin House in Temple Bar — something which lent added poignancy to the words spoken by Judge Conal Gibbons yesterday.

A new report has found alarming levels of bacteria are contaminating the sinks and baths of a Dublin flat complex.

A Somali native who is due €5,000 compensation for being a gun crime victim will also spend 11 months in jail for glassing a Dublin man in the face during a nightclub fight.

POTENTIALLY fatal levels of fungal contamination have been discovered in local authority housing in south inner city Dublin.

RESIDENTS in Dublin’s Dolphins Barn, who claim they are living with health-threatening damp, mould and sewage, are to have their case heard before an unprecedented human rights commission panel.

DISSIDENT Republicans pose a “real threat” to police forces and innocent bystanders, according to Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy.

THE Real IRA is “muscling” its way into communities and stepping up its campaign against drug dealers, according to gardaí and community activists.

WOMEN suffering domestic violence are being forced to wait more than two months to get a court hearing to try and get an order barring an abusive partner from the home.

A COLOURFUL parade of Santas through Dublin’s city centre yesterday highlighted the bitter-sweet message that Christmas is a time for families, including separated parents.

A drug addict who shot a bouncer in the face before assaulting two arresting gardaí has been jailed for 13 years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

A drug addict who shot a bouncer in the face before assaulting two arresting gardaí faces up to life imprisonment when he is sentenced later this month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

FORMER Bank of Ireland chief executive Mike Soden has stood over remarks in which he suggested society should not have to carry the burden of lone parents “who choose that lifestyle”.

RESIDENTS at a troubled flats complex have voted decisively for its demolition and the development of a new estate.

More than two thirds of people living in one of Dublin’s biggest public housing estates want it demolished, it was revealed today.

GARDAÍ believe a drug gang involved in intimidating residents of a Dublin flats complex planted a suspect device under a local community worker’s wife’s car.

The Defence Forces says a suspect device found in Dublin's south inner city this morning was a hoax.

COMMUNITY leaders should consider talking to drug dealers who are terrorising residents of a Dublin flats complex, a local drug worker has suggested.

THERE was further angry reaction yesterday to Government cutbacks for local drugs projects.

FUNDING for communities battling drugs has been further slashed, sparking angry reactions from activists who described government policies as “stupid”.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a bomb scare at a community centre in Dolphin's Barn where residents were discussing anti-social and criminal behaviour in the area.

A MAN was arrested by gardaí after robbing up to eight women at knifepoint and driving a stolen car at high speed across south Dublin.

A MAN was charged yesterday with assaulting a bus driver and taking a bus in an incident over the weekend.

A man arrested after he allegedly pointed a hand-gun with a silencer at gardaí in Dublin on Wednesday last appeared in court today on firearms charges.

GARDA divers yesterday pulled a loaded handgun from Dublin’s Grand Canal believed to have been thrown away by a man when he was challenged by officers.