A 14-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital this evening after falling from a bridge in Dublin.

Transport bosses are considering a plan to extend the Luas on the north side of Dublin City.

More than 100,000 people in Dublin are living and sleeping with noise pollution.

THE search is on for relatives of 39 soldiers who fought in the First World War.

GARDAÍ do not suspect the double murder of two young cousins last week was related to a €6,000 drug debt.

SENIOR detectives have said there was no evidence to suggest dissident republicans were behind the double murder of two young cousins this week.

TEAMS of detectives are investigating the personal relationships and drug-using backgrounds of two young cousins gunned down by a professional hit squad on Tuesday night.

GARDAÍ are “mystified” as to why two “decent enough” young men were gunned down by a professional hit team at a garage.

Murder squad detectives were tonight hunting a three-man gang after a shooting left one man dead and another injured.

Sentencing of a teenager, who daubed a swastika symbol with his own blood onto the all of a Garda station cell, has been adjourned.

A man who threatened to kill his estranged wife at her new home in Swords and led gardai on a high speed car chase with his seven-year-old son in the back-seat through north Dublin has received a four year suspended sentence.

A 44 year-old man who threatened to kill his estranged wife and led gardai on a high speed car chase with his seven year old son in the back-seat will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TICKETS for tomorrow’s Bank of Ireland Ulster football championship final will be on sale in the Croke Park area today.

The Government should scrap a 2003 VAT increase on petrol and diesel in light of rising fuel costs, it was claimed today.

NORMAL security arrangements are expected to apply in Dublin for Sunday’s Tyrone/Armagh Bank of Ireland Ulster football final, which is likely to produce an 80,000-plus attendance.

A youth who pleaded guilty to destroying Victorian gravestone monuments dating from 1835 at Glasnevin Cemetery to the value of €100,000 has been remanded on continuing bail until sentencing on April 18, 2005.

The M1, north and southbound is closed until midnight tonight.

A 16-year-old girl has died from injuries she sustained in a road accident in Co Tipperary yesterday evening.

MOTORISTS can save up to €300 a year on average by shopping around for petrol, according to the results of a major survey on fuel prices.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested three men during the search of a house on the Finglas Road.

The first affordable housing initiative project in Dublin city is being launched by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, today.