The statistics show that while the number of homeless adults in Dublin has soared by approximately 43% between 2016 and 2019, deaths have decreased through that period, falling from 65 in 2016 to 34 in 2019.

After three full days of campaigning, it is time to look back and examine what we have learned about General Election 2020 so far:

Eoghan Murphy has said that if his party is returned to government, he wants to stay on as housing minister.

Fine Gael’s social housing plan for Government will see 60,000 such homes built at a rate of 12,000 per year for the next five years, the party said at its launch this afternoon.

"That was a terrible accident that happened the other day."

Much of Ireland's homeless accommodation would be "closed down overnight" if it faced similar quality checks to the country's hospitals, according to a prominent homelessness activist.

A young homeless woman has died in emergency accommodation in Dublin.

The Peter McVerry Trust says tents are not a safe solution to rough sleeping.

A picture of an elderly woman eating her dinner off a windowsill in Dublin has been viewed hundreds of times online.

Fine Gael’s focus is on Brexit but health and homelessness cannot be far behind, writes David Davin-Power.

It would be a little unfair to describe Micheál Martin’s disposition as cocky at Fianna Fáil’s campaign launch event. But he certainly seemed composed. Confident even.

Mr Varadkar defended the government's record on trying to help people off the street, but also said several times that the injured homeless man had been known to support services.

Fianna Fáil’s first electoral event of the campaign showed a relaxed Mr Martin in composed form ahead of the three-week sprint.

The Central Criminal Court also heard today that accused Paul Wells Junior asked gardaí to handcuff him in the district court as he was afraid he would attack his father Paul Wells Senior.

Part of the Grand Canal at Suir Road in Dublin has been drained completely dry.

Renters in Dublin are paying an extra €3,000 per year to live near the Luas network compared to average rents in other parts of the city.

Spencer Place Development Company, the company with whom developer Johnny Ronan is a director, has said it anticipates that Dublin City Council will rule in its favour in a high-building review this week.

A company of developer Johnny Ronan has failed in a High Court challenge to Dublin City Council's legal interpretation of building height guidelines over a docklands development.

Fine Gael came out of its national conference on Saturday night into the last lap of this Government’s life span, writes Gerard Howlin.

Facebook has said it is expanding its Irish investment after it acquired a long-term lease on the Bank Centre in Ballsbridge.

Illustrated by Richard Mills, this compendium by Jo Kerrigan takes us on journeys some may never have known existed. It’s a historical travelogue that will inspire explorers, writes Majella Flynn

I wonder what Patrick Kavanagh would have made of Twitter? Would he have lost endless afternoons down by the Grand Canal, drowning deep in a wormhole of a thread of a spat between Ginsberg, Neal Cassidy and some faceless wonder with a moniker like @beatpoetssuck, before checking in on whether the dance was actually going ahead in Billy Brennan’s barn that night? Let’s be happy he didn’t have the distraction.

Wander down Dublin’s Grafton Street after a decent stretch of good weather and one can only be struck by the filthy stains — many caused by poorly maintained delivery vans — evident across the recently remodelled pavements.

"They have a complete disregard for residents in the area who are forced to put up with them urinating in public and often on their doorsteps."

In an exclusive extract from his new crime novel, security correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe goes behind the headlines with a gritty tale of gangland and the drugs racket

Myrtle Allen has been credited with almost single-handedly creating Irish fine dining by the Lonely Planet travel writers.

Those heading to the capital today for the parade or to attend the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park should make allowances for traffic and transport disruptions arising from today’s parade when travelling to Dublin.

Google Ireland paid almost €163.8m in tax last year on sales that jumped to €26.3bn.

Global technology firm Google looks set to expand its Dublin operations by purchasing Boland's Mill.

Trinity City Hotel, one of the Dublin hotels owned by US billionaire John Malone, the Virgin Media and TV3 owner, boosted pre-tax profits 54% to €2.83m last year, writes Gordon Deegan. 

The company behind the growing Milano chain of restaurants in Ireland has posted a pre-tax profit of €6.8m and paid a dividend of €12m to Pizza Express, its UK parent.

A body has been recovered from the Grand Canal in Dublin.

A Galway man is in a critical condition after falling into the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Ireland’s first floating hotel could be open on Cork’s River Lee by Christmas after planners gave the project the green light.

Protesters gathered outside a Dublin-based property company earlier against high rents.

Detectives trying to solve the disappearance of a man two years ago have called into question the motive of a letter writer who claimed he had been murdered.

Gardaí suspect he had been in a row with the gunman in the days before the shooting.

They’ve got a full bar all day, but book fast as it’s likely to be very busy.

You can say this much for certain about Damien Hirst — he doesn’t do low-key and his latest exhibition is no exception.

Google is reported to have held informal talks with the owners of the Treasury Building - NAMA's home on the Grand Canal - as the US firm considers a bid for the property.

Gardaí are braced for a backlash from the Hutch gang against the Kinahan cartel amid intelligence of a death threat against a senior cartel figure.