The Transport Minster Paschal Donohoe has said he shares the disappointment of Dun Laoghaire after Stena Line ended ferry services at the South Dublin port.

A 74-year-old Dublin man, who repeatedly raped his daughter as a child, has had his jail sentence tripled on appeal.

The two firms behind the Shaws department store chain enjoyed contrasting fortunes last year.

Ireland's Annalise Murphy is the 2013 Laser Radial European Champion.

For four days next week, the work of a bevy of young artists will be promoted at the Elysian, writes Colette Sheridan

The Constituency Commission has recommended cutting the number of TDs in Leinster House by eight - from 166 to 158.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will not take disciplinary action against his brother, a prominent city councillor, for failing to pay the household charge.

Residents in the Co Meath village of Dunboyne were described as “devastated” last night after a 35-year-old pregnant woman was found in the sea near Howth.

A local authority in Co Clare has become the first outside of Dublin to introduce a cashless pay and display system which accepts credit cards.

Local authority tenants in the greater Dublin area and in cities across the country owe at least €32 million in rent to their local councils.

Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite chronicles the hilarious misadventures of hotel guests at crucial moments in their lives, says Colette Sheridan

The first of the official counts in the Presidency are being declared this evening with Michael D Higgins is now certain to be elected the ninth President of Ireland.

A memorial ceremony for those who have lost their lives at sea will be held in Dun Laoighaire in Dublin today.

LADIES representing a dozen Irish golf clubs will tee it up alongside the world’s best in the AIB Ladies Irish Open Pro-Am at Portmarnock Links on July 10.

A Commission is being set up to review Dáil and European constituencies here, it emerged today.

Lawyers for the woman at the centre of the Dalkey babies case are due to meet officials at the Department of Justice today to discuss their concerns at the way the matter is being handled.

The attitude of Minister for the Gaeltacht, Eamon Ó Cuiv, to the use of the English version of Dingle on signposts outside the Gaeltacht area, is not just difficult to understand but could be considered to be overbearing and intimidatory.

Arts Minister John O’Donoghue paid a visit today to the star-studded film set of Maeve Binchy’s Tara Road.

Rail bosses blamed rush-hour delays in Dart services on blocked road drains which caused a nearby station to be flooded.

An Irish man vowed tonight to become the first person ever to swim the gruelling 56-mile channel between Dublin and Holyhead in Wales.

The Irish Seal Sanctuary is releasing a seal in Dublin.

A Co Wicklow girl has been killed in a freak boating accident in the United States.

Customs officers have released details of a heroin seizure after a woman, in her 20s, was stopped after she disembarked from a ferry at Dun Laoighaire.

Due to treacherous conditions on the Irish Sea, today's 1605 and 2215 sailings from Dun Laoighaire to Holyhead have been cancelled.