I thought it was all over for trains and GAA supporters, and I thought I had the exact moment the romance had ended: when Cork decided to go by bus to Dublin.

Europe will not think twice about screwing Ireland, if it has to, in order to screw Britain. We are so small and peripheral to the grander scheme of things, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell. 

The likelihood of the first technological university (TU) being established in Dublin should be known by the end of summer.

Over 600 student beds in Cork and 700-plus in Dublin, are being provided in a progressive €200 million-plus joint venture partnership by global players Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, and Global Student Accommodation Group, GSA - who’ll trade in Dublin and Cork under the brand Uninest.

Two student accommodation schemes given planning permission in Dublin could free up rental space for almost 500 people in the capital.

Numerous student accommodation complexes have been proposed over the past year but, as this selection shows, they have had varying levels of success in the planning process.

THERE is something deeply unsettling at the sight of senior Irish politicians travelling to the UK to tell people there how they should vote in the in-out EU referendum later this month.

Serial killer Mark Nash claims the delay in charging him with the murders of two women in Grangegorman had “locked him out” from applying for parole as early as he could have, the Supreme Court has heard.

The Sunday World has been given one month to pay €75,000 for contempt of court after it called serial killer Mark Nash a “psycho” and “Pulp Fiction-style killer” before he had gone on trial for a second double-murder charge.

Joan Burton has said the Taoiseach will clarify his position on a possible coalition with Fianna Fáil today.

The High Court has cleared the way for the winner of a multi-million-euro contract for the new Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) campus at Grangegorman to proceed with the project.

The costs associated with the marathon Graham Dwyer murder trial has helped push the lawyer bill for the first six months of this year for the Director of Public Prosecutions to over €7.4m.

Convicted killer Mark Nash has lost his High Court bid to be returned from the Midlands Prison to Arbour Hill prison, Dublin, where he has spent the past 15 years.

The Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA) has submitted planning applications to Dublin City Council for two major academic buildings for DIT as the next stage of the Grangegorman campus development.

Convicted murderer Mark Nash has complained about being jeered at in prison and says he has become distressed and depressed because he has no access to work or study.

The daughter of an Englishman convicted of murdering four people in separate incidents in Dublin and Roscommon in the 1990s has branded her father “a monster”.

Convicted double murderer Mark Nash has been found guilty of the “cold case” murder of two women, whose mutilated bodies were found in their sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman in Dublin nearly 20 years ago.

The jury is on its second day of deliberation in the trial of a man accused of a double murder in Grangegorman 18 years ago.

The prosecution counsel in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago has told the jury that if the accused is not guilty, there are a series of “truly amazing coincidences”.

DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.

On the eve of his 70th birthday on St Patrick’s Day, Chelsea, Shamrock Rovers and Ireland legend Paddy Mulligan takes an eye-opening trip through his footballing past.

A forensic scientist told a murder trial jury yesterday that a mark on lino in a house where two women were killed 18 years ago was likely to have been made by a Caterpillar brand boot.

A Garda chief superintendent told a murder trial yesterday that he retrieved clothing from the home of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago.

An ex-partner of a man on trial for a double murder has testified that he was a fantasist and “told a lot of lies”.

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has told a jury how a man who was first charged with the 1997 murder of one woman, but later had the charge withdrawn, could not have "more accurately described" the carving knife blades found at the scene.

A man charged with a 1997 double murder said a confession made by him in relation to the killings was “produced” by gardaí, a jury has heard.

A jury has heard that a man on trial for a 1997 double murder gave a statement to gardaí, admitting he stabbed two women after breaking into a house .

The jury foreman in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago, has been excused.

The jury foreman in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women eighteen years ago, has been excused.

Garda outlines horrific scene at site of Grangegorman murders

“A spectacular breakthrough” led to the DNA of two women, found dead at their sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman 18 years ago, being found on the jacket of a man on trial accused of their murder, a trial has heard.

The prosecution has begun laying out its evidence in the trial of two women murdered in Dublin nearly 18 years ago.

A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering two women in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman in Dublin, 18 years ago.

New building regulations and local planning appeals have delayed dozens of major school building projects this year.

Nightclubs, pubs, and office blocks with reserve prices of over €1m each were among 156 properties sold for a total of €48m at the latest Allsop auction.

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has said that the development of the Grangegorman campus for DIT will be a massive lift for the city.