There’s any amount of ways to measure Dublin’s progress under Jim Gavin this year but one of the most obvious is to point out that the wherewithal to win a Division One league final without either Bernard or Alan Brogan on the pitch.

Ireland has become the 10th country in the world where Telefónica, O2’s parent company, has launched its global technology accelerator programme, Wayra.

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the construction of the DART Underground in Dublin, despite the Government deciding recently to shelve the project.

AN INTERNAL investigation is being carried out at a third-level Dublin college after students swallowed a live goldfish, raw chicken necks, lamb’s hearts, cat and dog food and an array of chillies as part of an iron stomach competition.

A TEXT-BOOK left hook perfectly placed on the point of the chin signalled the end of Bernard Dunne’s six-month reign as WBA world super bantamweight champion and transferred the belt to Thailand thunderball, Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, before a stunned sell-out crowd at the O2 in Dublin’s Docklands on Saturday night.

AUSTRALIAN insurance group, QBE has reported record after-tax profits of Aus$1.02 billion (€595m) for the first half of this year – representing a 19% year-on-year increase.

Dublin’s newest bridge designed by world-famous architect Santiago Calatrava arrived in the capital today after a week-long sea journey from Holland.

O2 customers will be able to snap up concert tickets up to 48 hours before general release when Dublin’s famous Point Depot reopens in December, it was revealed today.

THOUSANDS turned out at Dublin’s Docklands yesterday to bid farewell to a replica Viking longship which made the city its home for almost a year.

A disgruntled construction worker was sacked today after scaling a 52-metre crane in a dangerous lone protest over the pension rights of builders.

IRELAND’S commitment to helping to reduce hunger in developing countries will be reiterated today.

The Danish government today expressed its regret over the Viking invasion of Ireland more than 1,000 years ago.