Dublin football star Jonny Cooper said he is "humbled" by good wishes he has received after he was the victim of an horrific stabbing in the early hours of Saturday morning.

President Michael D Higgins said he will think of his two sisters, his childhood neighbours and all the other Irish emigrants “who have come and contributed to Britain” when he is welcomed at Windsor Castle today.

After weeks of Halloween shenanigans, the ghouls and goblins (both commercial and otherwise) have shuffled off for another year.

Tesco has announced it will create more than 200 jobs in Ireland over the next year as the company was hit by another meat labelling scandal in the UK.

Landlord John Meagher has agreed to surrender his passport and take steps to address his contempt of orders requiring him disclose his assets to a bank pursuing him for almost €7m.

An investigation was ongoing today into an explosives find in Dublin yesterday that has been traced back to the Slovak authorities.

It has been confirmed that a small quantity of high-grade explosives found today in a Dublin apartment originated in Slovakia and was smuggled into the country as part of a security exercise gone wrong.

Gardaí investigating the discovery of explosives in a Dublin apartment believe they were smuggled in as part of an airline security check that went wrong.

A man has been arrested after a small quantity of high-grade commercial explosives was found at an apartment in Dublin's Dorset St.

A limited number of tickets have gone on sale today for Sunday's Leinster football final between Dublin and Kildare.

A Dublin businessman has gone on trial for allegedly running brothels in the city centre five years ago.

The trial of a 38-year-old-father-of two accused of murder has heard there are "two verdicts open" to the jury; not guilty of murder or guilty of manslaughter, defence counsel said in his closing speech to the jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

An alcoholic Welsh woman has been found guilty of the murder of a Leitrim man she stabbed 13 times during a drunken row at his flat in Dublin last year.

A 25-year-old Welsh woman accused of stabbing a Leitrim man 13 times with three knives and then pouring boiling water over him has pleaded not guilty to his murder at the Central Criminal Court today.

The gangland figure shot dead in Dublin city centre overnight was Niall Mulvihill.

Four young men were being treated in a Dublin hospital today after drinking a mystery toxic liquid during Hallowe’en night celebrations.