One Dublin hotel was last year paid €4m to €5m to accommodate the spiralling numbers of homeless in the capital.

A new book chronicles the first 40 years of the charity that ensures no-one dies alone and poor anymore, says Helen O’Callaghan

Update - July 13, 8am: Darren Teeling has been found safe and well.

Gardaí have appealed for information about a shooting in Dublin last night.

A man who had thousands of images and videos of child abuse, some of which showed children being tortured, will be sentenced in October.

Saturday’s Grand National saw people placing bets that won’t bet again this year. For others, that first win can spark an addiction more hidden than alcoholism, one reformed gambler tells Jonathan de Burca Butler

A suspect device on the north side of Dublin has been declared safe.

A suspect device has been discovered in north inner-city Dublin today.

A Kerry-born nun who spent her life helping people affected by addiction found she could not rest easy in her bed in Dublin last weekend, knowing there were homeless people lying on the ground outside.

25 elderly residents of social housing in Dublin's North Inner City will be back in their homes before Christmas.

Applicants for civil legal aid are waiting almost two years to secure the services of a solicitor as the Legal Aid Board struggles to deal with a 70% increase in demand in seven years.

President Michael D Higgins has officially opened a major extension of Teach Mhuire in Gardiner Street in inner city Dublin.

THERE is a great lusting for a moral economy.

A judge has ordered a man who attacked and robbed a 67-year-old farmer to look at a photograph of the victim and “observe his handiwork”.

A Dublin resident who used another person's identity and PPS number to claim more than €31,000 in disability allowances has had his sentencing adjourned today.

Up to 80,000 people are expected to line Dublin’s main thoroughfare to mark the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s greatest industrial dispute.

The new Minister for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe, said he is shocked and privileged to be appointed.

Dublin City Council is to use the tactic of withholding street cleaning services in areas where dumping waste is a problem.

Two brothers, who have amassed more than 100 criminal convictions between them, today admitted stealing a laptop belonging to a daughter of jailed former billionaire Sean Quinn.

It’s Nov 1, the traditional day for quitting bad habits, but e-cigs, which look real but are harmless, may soon be banned, says Jason Walsh

Four large industrial style cannabis grow houses have been discovered by gardaí during searches in Dublin, Waterford, Mayo, Louth and Kildare.

After months of preparation for clubs across the country, the 2012 Féile na nGael finally comes into view.

Staff at a Dublin guesthouse were still reeling yesterday after a baby was abandoned there by his mother at the weekend.

BUSINESSES leaders have hit back at a survey which found that parts of Dublin were a litter blackspot.

Businesses leaders have hit back at a survey which found parts of the capital were a litter blackspot.

The HSE has begun an MMR vaccination blitz in primary schools in Dublin's north inner city in response to a rapid rise in the number of measles in the area over the summer.

A Polish man on trial for murdering a young supermarket worker in 2009 has today told the Central Criminal Court that all he remembers of the incident is having knife at in his hand and wanting confrontation.

A 40-year-old man and woman aged 33 have been injured in a stabbing incident in Dublin.

A 16-year-old teenager suspected by gardai of “preying on tourists” was remanded in custody today after he was charged over a violent mugging of a woman, in Dublin city centre.

A new speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour is being extended to most of Dublin city centre from today.

A man was remanded in custody today charged with a gun murder almost two and a half years ago.

THE days of Ken and Barbie dolls will be well over if one kindergarten gets its way.

A drug-dealing couple have both been given suspended sentences for possession of almost €5,000 worth of heroin after Judge Frank O’Donnell said he was "having regard to their three children".

A drug-dealing couple have been released from custody to spend Christmas with their three children.

Two Australian backpackers said they would never come to Dublin again after two British criminals broke into their apartment, threatened to cut them up and robbed them, a court heard.

A teenage repeat offender, who repeatedly broke into cars, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

Motorists can expect some serious delays as the competitors in this year's Dublin marathon make their way around the city.

THERE were plenty of things to complain about during the last few months, but there was much to celebrate too, including those things that can generate a great deal of pride in being Irish.

GARDAÍ are investigating if a gangland shooting in Dublin’s north inner city is linked with any of the feuds operating in the area.

Gardaí in Dublin have issued an appeal to the mother of a foetus found in a bed and breakfast on Gardiner Street in the north inner city last week.

Gardaí tonight appealed for the mother of a baby found dead in a bed and breakfast to come forward.

THREE buggies are piled up in the front yard, fighting for space with two toddler bikes.

A man was arrested today in connection with a fire at the Irish headquarters of the Jesuit Order, gardaí said.

A MAJOR drug dealer who is thought to be a main suspect for the latest gangland murder is out on bail for a serious drugs offence, sources said yesterday.