Your lunchtime headlines:

A number of bank investments have come to market, with 17 branches nationwide valued at €28.5m, including the Bank of Ireland branch in Mallow, valued at €3.2m, while in Cork, two former bank branches have also come to the open market with Cushman & Wakefield.

Pressure is continuing on the Government after a man in his 50s died this week while sleeping rough in Dublin.

Gardaí in Cavan investigating a fatal stabbing are making a further appeal for information from the public.

Shop owner Milan Hosek, who had his part of his ear bitten off during a racist attack on a Dublin street, is among those featured in new RTÉ2 documentary Trauma tonight.

The father-of-three killed in a street attack has been described as "one of the nicest and most genuine people anyone could meet".

A major investigation has been launched after more than 30 cars were vandalised in a Dublin suburb overnight.

An 18-year-old man has been sent forward for trial to the Special Criminal Court after he was charged with the murder of David ‘Daithi’ Douglas who was shot dead on a Dublin street last year.

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The family of a cyclist killed in a crash this week have thanked the community of Sheriff Street for staying with her in her dying moments.

Following the terror attacks in Brussels this week that left at least 32 dead and 270 injured – attacks that Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for – a message reading “All Muslims are scum” appeared on a Dublin street.

A then 14-year-old boy armed with a broken bottle threatened to slit a young man’s throat during a false imprisonment and robbery incident on a Dublin street, a court has heard.

A street in Dublin was flooded last night after vandals had opened the three gates on the Grand Canal.

Gardaí with a warrant carried out a search at a house on Dublin Street in Blackpool and found over €5,000 worth of drugs, some of them in a grow tent set up with a special light and extractor fan.

Bill O’Herlihy was among the first guests I recognised as our family took our seats for the IFTA awards ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House on Sunday night. We shared adjoining tables and, instinctively, I knew we’d say hello.

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A man in his forties has been found dead on a street in Dublin not far from the entrance to the Dáil.

A man has been released after being arrested in connection with an explosion on a quiet Dublin street.

One of the largest, and best trading pubs on Cork city’s Northside, the 9,000 sq ft Groves in Blackpool, has been put to market by a receiver for €525,000, via agents Behan Irwin Gosling.

A court has heard today that sex offender Anthony Lyons made an almost €200,000 settlement with the woman he violently attacked on a Dublin street.

While none of the films are new to the internet, many of them are already widely circulated. For instance, Great Cork Treaty (1922), a silent panorama of Michael Collins addressing thousands of people on Cork’s Grand Parade, when the throng is thrown into disarray by gunshots...

Hundreds of new sensors on Dublin streets will alert local authorities to breaches in noise levels, pollution and flooding.

The State's appeal against the six-month sentence handed down to sex attacker Anthony Lyons will be heard today.

The DNA testing process can typically take up to 48 hours, say the Forensic Science Laboratory — so it’s a safe bet there was some anxious pacing of corridors and hallways before the results in the Tallaght Roma case came in yesterday afternoon.

The IRA has admitted killing the only prison officer murdered in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles.

Gardaí were in talks with the DPP last night on whether charges should be brought against a man for a serious sexual assault on a woman with special needs.

Plans for a new €14m healthcare facility in north Co Dublin have been approved today.

The family of the only prison officer to be assassinated in the Republic believe they know the identity of his killer after new evidence came to light in recent weeks.

Clare Daly is awaiting the results of a blood sample she gave to gardaí after she was stopped for making a wrong turn on a Dublin street on Monday night.

A man was found dead on a Dublin street today after a suspected stabbing.

Irish author Gene Kerrigan has won the Crime Writers’ Association 2012 Gold Dagger award for his gritty crime novel, The Rage.

The boyfriend of Malawian student Rudo Mawere, whose body was found in a suitcase on a Dublin street, admitted to murder before taking his own life, an inquest heard yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing to question a man in his 20s, over the murder of Ciarán Noonan, the man who was abducted from a Dublin street last October.

Dublin gardaí have arrested a man in his 20s this evening in connection with the killing of a man who was abducted from a Dublin street.

The chief suspect in the murder of an African student found dead in a travel bag on a Dublin street is thought to have killed himself after fleeing to England.

The woman whose remains were found yesterday in a suitcase on a Dublin street was in her 20s and from Malawi. It is understood she was strangled or suffocated.

The body of a woman has been discovered on a street in Dublin. The scene has been sealed off and the State Pathologist has been alerted.

A man in his 30s has been arrested over the killing of a man abducted from a Dublin street recently.

A judge has called on social services to investigate the welfare of a baby girl who was brought out begging on a Dublin street by her pregnant teenage mother.

Gardaí have re-opened Erne Street in Dublin city centre, after a gas explosion earlier today.

THE Government has launched its own “news service” in a bid to sell its message better.

Motorists in Dublin are being advised of a fire in the city centre this afternoon.

South William Street in Dublin city centre has re-opened this morning following a fire earlier.

GARDAÍ investigating the killing of a young man who was badly beaten on a Dublin street last weekend are confident arrests will be made.