Martha Hunt, a woman from the US on holiday in Ireland, came into more than a spot of bother whilst in Dublin.

An Irish town has launched a massive community campaign to ensure the red carpet is rolled out for a Norwegian family who found their message-on-a-balloon 2,500km away.

A superb amphitheatre, a terrific buzz and plenty of football action — no, not the Stade de France, The Courtyard off Sober Lane where hundreds gathered for a night of “oohs” and “aahs” and a result any of us would have taken yesterday morning.

Yesterday, 100 years ago, a young woman named Nora Costigan got caught up in the Rising. Niall Murray introduces her remarkable account of that week

Residents from the north Dublin suburb of Swords are trying to block the local Muslim community from establishing a prayer, cultural, and community centre at a site in the area.

I don’t know whether this is the kind of letter that you publish but this is the true news and there is no other way I can truly register my gratitude to the gentleman concerned.

This weekend marked Kenmare’s “Pattern Day” - the Feast of the Assumption, when the people of Kilgarvan and Ballyvourney to the east, Sneem to the West, Glengarriff and the Beara to the south gather in the Kerry heritage town.

One of the golden stretches for restaurants in Dublin is St Andrew’s St; minutes away from Grafton St, Stephen’s Green, and Temple Bar, it packs more really good restaurants into a very short length of cement than probably any other area of the city. 

Winger Aiden McGeady has pulled out of the Republic of Ireland’s squad to face Wales next week due to a knee injury.

Bollywood producers and location scouts have arrived in Ireland to look for potential locations for their next big Bollywood blockbuster.

Ireland U19 manager Paul Doolin wants Uefa chiefs in Serbia next week to protect his players from anything like the racism England were subjected to last October.

The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar will sign the first contracts for work on the new Luas Cross-City line in Dublin today.

Almost 30 million passenger journeys were made on the Luas last year, figures show.

IRISH citizens generally know as little about the Programme for Government as Catholics do about the Bible.

Ireland’s heroic U21 squad were yesterday swapping the euphoria of toppling Italy with a plan to break into the senior squad.

Jedward-mania hit the streets of Dublin as the pop duo carried the Olympic Torch through the capital.

THE Shelbourne Hotel is an institution at any time of year.

US president Barack Obama told Ireland he was home tonight in an electrifying open-air address topped off with his world-famous motto.

AMAZING was how writer-director Juanita Wilson described her recent triumph at the IFTAs, when her film As If I Am Not There won the Best Script, Best Director and Best Film awards.

A 84-YEAR-OLD retired lorry driver has brought a legal challenge over the Law Society’s refusal to compensate him for more than €500,000 after his daughter, a solicitor, allegedly misappropriated money from the estate in which he was the main beneficiary.

DUBLIN may be heaven with coffee at 11 and a stroll round Stephen’s Green but I recall walking down Grafton Street, off the Green, five steps behind Dublin football star Tony Hanahoe when he was in his playing heyday.

A HIGH COURT judge yesterday granted the repossession of four apartments belonging to solicitor Michael Lynn, while also querying if an international arrest warrant had been issued for the fugitive lawyer.

THE Greens launched their Vision for Dublin strategy yesterday, but insisted progress had been made since they launched documents of the same name before the 2004 and 2007 elections.

THE attached garage at 6, Bishopscourt Green, Bishopstown, would allow room for a larger, kitchen/diner in any makeover.

A family with a young child were held hostage in an overnight "tiger" kidnapping as an armed gang forced a Bank of Ireland worker into its College Green offices to hand over cash.

SUPER Bowl champions The New York Giants shrugged off the latest publicity surrounding absent receiver Plaxico Burress to defeat Washington 23-7 on Sunday.

A pedestrian was struck by a Luas tram today causing traffic disruption in Dublin’s city centre.

THE result of the Lisbon referendum has reminded me of one of the scenes from Life of Brian — not the life of Brian Cowen, but the film.

IT is more than nine years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which stated there should be “total disarmament of all paramilitary organisations” and parties should “confirm their intention to continue to work constructively and in good faith with the Independent Monitoring Commission”.

Ireland must place conflict resolution at the the heart of its foreign policy, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said today.

The trial of a 17 year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a 20-year-old because he was English continued in legal argument in the Central Criminal Court today.

THE Green, for generations a famous and much loved Midleton landmark, is to undergo major refurbishment in the coming months.

Dublin’s Luas light rail system made a profit a full year ahead of schedule, making it the only transport network in the country not in need of Government subsidies, it was revealed today.

RTÉ’s managing director of radio, Adrian Moynes, declared on Morning Ireland (June 6) that the proposed new arts programme presented by Dave Fanning on the revamped Radio 1 would be about “such things” as painting, sculpture and plays.

MESOPOTAMIA, successful on the flat for Aidan O’Brien, can enjoy a first over jumps in the Three-Day Event and Horseshow Maiden Hurdle at Punchestown tonight.

DEBATE on the three different metro routes proposed by the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) appears entirely focused on its route through the north Dublin suburbs.

Tommy Barker visits a distinctive house that’s aroused a lot of interest.

FOR a long time now we have heard the dissenting voices against the cosy relationship alcohol advertisers enjoy with sport, particularly the GAA.

US forces along the Euphrates River attacked the insurgent stronghold of Haditha early yesterday, capturing a militant with ties to al-Qaida in Iraq and killing four others, the military said.

A series of free events are taking place in Stephen's Green to celebrate its 125 years as a public park.

AT least 32 people were killed in attacks in Iraq yesterday, including bombings inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone said to have been claimed by the suspected al-Qaida chief in the country, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.

Dublin’s new tram lines could permanently alter the flow of traffic around one of the city’s most historic parks, it has emerged.

A new temporary traffic management system comes into operation around Dublin's St Stephen's Green today.

LUAS, Dublin’s light rail system, has been given the all-clear to make its maiden journey this afternoon — and commuters don’t have to pay anything for the trip in the first five days.