Drinks giant Diageo is to offload most of its whisky business Whyte & Mackay amid fears that its continued ownership could drive up prices for drinkers.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 15-year-old Jamie Martin.

The mother of a baby boy who died after being born prematurely accused his father of assaulting her like “an animal” and causing her waters to break.

Gardaí fear a notorious Limerick gang might head to Dublin and “set Tallaght on fire” in revenge for the murder of Melanie McCarthy, 16.

The senior garda leading the investigation into the murder of 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy described the killing as a “particularly heinous crime”.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

A BOY has been awarded €8,000 in compensation after he was asked to drop his trousers in a shop to prove he had not stolen a bottle of coke.

Work began today on extending the Luas from Tallaght to Citywest and Saggart in West Dublin.

A 20-year-old man gunned down in a car outside his home was involved in a serious assault in the last few weeks, it emerged tonight.

SLIGO ROVERS FC yesterday issued a fresh appeal to save the stricken club, the eircom Premier Division outfit pointing out that it needed to match a weekly financial commitment of €17,000 just to stay afloat.

AN ATTEMPTED bomb attack on a family in County Clare is thought to have stemmed from a minor row over a car, gardaí suspect.

A Government TD has called for work on extending the Luas line in west Dublin to Saggart to begin without delay as public consultation on the project today closed.

A PUBLIC consultation on a planned 3.2-kilometre extension of the Luas to Citywest was launched yesterday.

GARDAÍ were last night questioning a man thought to be the main suspect in an underworld murder in Dublin on Thursday.

Cormac O’Keeffe and John Breslin

Cormac O’Keeffe

Action must be taken to wipe out antisocial behaviour including joyriding and vandalism in neighbourhoods and playgrounds, young children urged today.

THE number of uncontrolled horses has dramatically fallen, it was revealed yesterday.