You’ll be delighted to know (finally, perhaps) that there is method in whatever passes for madness these days.

A man has been rescued from the River Liffey in Dublin.

Sealing your love affair with a padlock might guarantee longevity — until a team of officially appointed lock-pickers gets to work.

The Winding Stair,

The Government has been urged to provide special emergency funding to repair one of Cork’s greatest landmarks.

There have been calls for urgent action to improve the condition of Cork’s landmark Daly’s Bridge — known to generations as the Shaky Bridge.

Dublin has gone blue to mark Global Smurfs Day.

A Dublin business which once employed James Joyce as a sales agent is closing its doors for good this evening — ironically on Bloomsday, when Joyce is remembered on an annual basis.

Tourism chiefs plan to use a Bollywood film to bring more Indian visitors to Ireland.

Tourism chiefs plan to use a Bollywood film to bring more Indian visitors to Ireland.

A student dressed as Santa Claus made an early Christmas dash to save a homeless man from a blaze.

DUBLIN’S style-driven Morrison Hotel has been put on the market with international buyers expected, thanks to its profile and trading figures.

THERE seemed no way of dressing it up — putting a near-nude cowboy among crowds of shoppers on a biting cold day was surely nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt.

A stage hand has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for collecting takings from prostitutes working in a city centre brothel two years ago.

HARD to believe in an era when items from our past are disappearing by the day that more than 100,000 industrial sites from previous centuries still survive.

A teenage father of one, who is a recovering heroin addict and has spent the last four years involved in drug-fuelled petty thefts, has attained his 40th criminal conviction.

An Irish dancer will be going for a record on stage at the Gaiety Theatre this week as she takes part in her 3,025th Riverdance extravaganza.

FESTOONED with roses, Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge brightened the day for passersby yesterday.

Gardaí searching for a missing Co Tyrone woman are investigating a reported sighting of the woman in Dublin.

A PASSER-BY who jumped into the River Liffey to save a drowning man had to be rescued by emergency services after getting into difficulty.

The most famous bridge across Dublin’s River Liffey was reopening today after a multi-million pound restoration.