A 25-year-old man is due in court today charged in connection with a drugs raid in Dublin over the weekend.

Investigations are ongoing with a view to prosecution.

Three men have appeared in court charged with laundering money at a car wash in Dublin.

A Dublin man who collected a cheque for €250,000 from Lotto HQ today it wasn’t for his “good feeling” he might never have bought a ticket.

House prices are surging at double-digit rates in cities outside Dublin, while the capital’s housing market has stabilised, new figures show.

The latest house price trends could see Dublin becoming an enclave for the rich, an economist has warned.

AIB has now pocketed €1.19m from the sale of properties formerly owned by Mick Wallace TD’s main building firm around Dublin, documents show.

A son of Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has been spared a criminal conviction and a possible sentence for stealing a box of Desperados beer.

A former businessman who shared thousands of images of child pornography online is to be jailed on Monday.

State-owned AIB has pocketed €250,000 from the €295,000 sale of one of Independent TD Mick Wallace’s main firm’s four Temple Bar apartments.

So there it is. All five Garth Brooks concerts cancelled, the economy out an estimated €50 million, hundreds of thousands of disappointed fans and Ireland is left looking like a laughing stock. It is embarrassing and disappointing.

A man who rammed a patrol car in a stolen 4x4, injuring two gardaí, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, with the final two years suspended.

Gardaí busted a wholesale drugs distribution centre and fraud production factory in an operation targeting organised crime.

Your correspondent Michael Moriarty (‘The threat from fundamentalists’, Irish Examiner, Aug 20) is basically arguing against doing anything to assist the four Irish citizens detained in Cairo. In doing so, he makes at least three unwarranted assumptions.

Transport chaos is looming with the Dublin Bus strike, so I was amazed by the comments of the Minister of Transport Leo Varadkar.

In two weeks’ time, the citizens of Ireland have a chance to show they are a people of action.

In his ‘State of the Union’ address, Jose Manuel Barroso claims that “We will need to move toward a federation of nation states.”

Africa once had a bedazzling tree; from its branches hung battered fruit.

In response to Mr Tony Lowes ill-informed letter published (Irish Examiner, May 1) regarding fish farming, I would like to make a few factual corrections: Firstly, the Examiner’s editorial referred to was not considered by IFA or the industry to be thoughtful or informed.

A number of homes in Dublin were evacuated overnight after the discovery of a viable explosive device.

Crucial garda interviews with a Dublin man accused of IRA membership cannot be used as evidence against him, the Special Criminal Court has determined.

Gardaí found a submachine gun and ammunition at a house in west Dublin during investigations into links between the Real IRA and Dublin criminals, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Detectives investigating the murder of 19-year-old David Byrne have arrested three teenagers.

GERRY Ryan declined to take a pay cut like others at RTÉ at a time when most Irish people are having their wages reduced.

GARDAÍ in Dublin seized heroin with an estimated street value of €300,000.

Gardaí say a 42-year-old woman who had been missing from her home in Dublin since Wednesday has been located.

A DRUG treatment programme in south Dublin city has seen a doubling in the number of clients being treated for crack cocaine addiction in the past year.

WHAT about one free general election with every Lisbon Treaty referendum rerun?

THE €400 billion Government guarantee to underwrite Irish banks is disproportionate when we consider the size of our population and our economy in relation to the $700 billion package rejected by the US senate for its banks.

“POLITICAL classes” I ask you! Politicians are of the people — they purport to be for the people and they even are people.

A WORKER at the office of the Revenue Commissioners has been arrested as part of an investigation into tax fraud and criminal activity in the motor trade.

THE fate of a fleet of luxury cars is to be decided in the coming weeks when the assets of a stricken Dublin dealership are divvied out by its receiver.

THE makers of Lynx deodorant were yesterday rapped for an advertisement featuring a woman wearing nothing but a jacket and lingerie next to the word “Clicktease”.

GARDAÍ fear a long-running gang war in Dublin is escalating following the attempted murder of a youth yesterday morning.