Poet Seamus Heaney took a break from writing today to attend the opening of a landmark bridge named after fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

Dublin’s newest bridge designed by world-famous architect Santiago Calatrava arrived in the capital today after a week-long sea journey from Holland.

Gardaí from Kevin St are appealing for witnesses to a collision at James Joyce Bridge in Dublin.

A US waste management company is planning to build a major facility here in the first project of its kind to seek permission under the new fast-track planning procedure for large-scale infrastructure.

Dublin was today celebrating Bloomsday – the 24 hours when Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses masterpiece, roamed through the streets of the Irish capital.