Latest: The fire at an ESB substation in Bluebell has now been extinguished, Dublin Fire Brigade has confirmed.

Fifteen closure orders were served on food businesses in October for breaches of food safety legislation.

A man has been jailed for three and half years after gardai caught him moving over €62,000 worth of cannabis resin from his car into a van.

A YOUNG father-of-one, who was an associate of a north Dublin drugs gang, was gunned down at his workplace yesterday afternoon in what is being investigated as a personal dispute.

A father-of-one has received a two-year suspended sentence and a €4,000 fine for possessing 450 kegs of beer stolen from Diageo Ireland.

A drug-dealing couple have both been given suspended sentences for possession of almost €5,000 worth of heroin after Judge Frank O’Donnell said he was "having regard to their three children".

A drug-dealing couple have been released from custody to spend Christmas with their three children.

A fire which ripped through a number of houses and apartments under construction in north Dublin could have been started deliberately.

AS GARDAÍ appealed for witnesses to two car crashes, one of which left a nine-month-old baby girl with serious injuries, three of the seven people killed in a horrific weekend of smashes were named yesterday.

The first affordable housing initiative project in Dublin city is being launched by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, today.

ADDITIONAL State- owned land around the country is to be made available for affordable housing, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed yesterday.