RTÉ has a blind spot where religious faith is concerned. 

The High Court has heard gardaí are in a "Catch-22" situation when trying to move water protesters from inside barriers where water meters are being installed because it is not a public area and the Public Order Act does not apply.

The High Court has granted an order setting up a 20m exclusion zone around water meter installations in Dublin city.

A company employed to install water meters has claimed in the High Court that its workers are at risk due to allegedly violent protests in North Dublin.

One of the largest retail investment portfolios ever brought to market in Ireland was yesterday launched by joint selling agents Savills and Bannon with a guide price of €120m.

The State has allowed for the legal adoption of children, as an alternative form of childcare, to take place since 1952.

A brother of murdered dissident republican Alan Ryan and another man have been charged with firearms offences as part of a garda investigation in to the murder of Dublin man Michael Kelly in 2011.

An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a viable Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in Kilbarrack Co. Dublin this afternoon.

NEGOTIATORS on both sides have described the talks as “friendly”. Isn’t that reassuring?

WITH less than two weeks to go until budget day, it is disconcerting to see Taoiseach Brian Cowen waver in the face of union opposition to essential wage cuts.

MIDDLE Ireland came out of its deep slumber on Lisbon Treaty referendum day and restored our belief that we still live in a healthy democracy.

THE ESRI says we are about to experience a major slump in house prices.

Baylough Cheese is available at Country Choice, Nenagh; McCambridge’s, Galway; On the Pig’s Back, English Market, Cork; Urru Foods, Bandon and Mallow; Hudsons Whole Foods, Ballydehob, west Cork; Super Valu, Poppyfield, Clonmel, and farmers’ markets countrywide.

I AGREE with the reader from Canada about the loss of Nelson’s Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin (Irish Examiner, September 25).

A 17-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting incident in Dublin last night.

WHEN my work first took me on trips through the south and south-west, I sometimes felt I was in Hamburg.

SECOND- HAND house prices in Dublin have risen by a staggering 166% over the past six years, with the average house in the city costing €370,000.