More than €1m has been paid to a communications company managing publicity for the National Children’s Hospital, it has emerged.

Gardaí will next week press for charges to be brought against a 16-year-old boy in connection with the murder of German student Thomas Heinrich last weekend.

Gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing in Rialto, Dublin, yesterday have arrested a woman in her 40s.

A Dublin City Councillor is calling on the Government to do more to clamp down on knife crime.