More than 90 separate demonstrations will take place across the country today - as over 100,000 people take to the streets in protest against water charges.

Gardai investigating the murder of a man outside a Dublin city chipper are awaiting various reports before his file will be ready.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has revealed there is no Garda report on his failure to give a breath test at a checkpoint.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he failed to give a breath test at a Garda checkpoint several years ago because he is asthmatic.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter says he has "no problem in saying I am sorry" if Deputy Mick Wallace feels that he did him some personal wrong by mentioning Wallace's incidence of discretion.

Enda Kenny has dismissed calls for Alan Shatter to resign over his use of confidential garda information against a political opponent during a live television broadcast.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he discovered during a Garda briefing that Independent TD Mick Wallace was stopped for using a mobile phone while driving.

Three young men standing around gangster Stephen "Madzer" Byrne moments before he was gunned down scattered when his killer arrived on a bicycle, detectives indicated today.

A 50-year-old Kildare man has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity by a jury at the Central Criminal Court - the first time in Irish legal history such a verdict has been returned.

THE number of pedestrians killed in road traffic accidents this year rose to 54 after separate weekend tragedies.

A foreign national was killed in an overnight row in Dublin.