PRE-TAX profits at the well-known TV and film editing studio, Windmill Lane Pictures, that helped produce the recent controversial “Bertie in the cupboard” advert, plummeted last year by 84% to €135,570.

Gardaí have sealed off an area in Dublin city centre this evening following the discovery of a suspicious device.

DETECTIVES have vowed to continue the hunt for the killer of a prostitute stabbed 18 times in a frenzied attack in a Dublin red light district.

GARDAÍ are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions following a vicious assault on a young man with a golf club.

Gardai in Donnybrook have seized 25,000 ecstasy tablets with an estimated street value of €250,000.

The body of a middle-aged man was taken from the Grand Canal in Dublin at about 1am today.