The Department of Environment has claimed a land swap with a developer which will ultimately cost the State more than €33m was a “complex and challenging project”.

A man has been charged in connection with the serious sexual assault of a special needs woman in Dublin on June 12.

Three people, including a 16-year-old were questioned by gardaí after a German man was stabbed to death and his friend seriously injured in Dublin city on Saturday morning.

A MAN rescued from the River Liffey in Dublin by a garda on Thursday died in hospital yesterday.

Two men were being questioned by gardaí today after another man died following a shooting in Dublin's south inner city.

A 36-year-old man appeared in court today charged with causing death by dangerous driving in connection with the death of a woman who was killed in the course of a series of incidents involving a bus in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí at Kevin St, Dublin seized two kilos of heroin with a potential street value of €400,000 at approximately 8am today.

GARDAÍ were last night still questioning a man thought to be a leading suspect in a pub murder in Dublin just over a fortnight ago.

Two people were being questioned by gardaí today after a man died following an assault in south Dublin.

A man accused of murder told Gardaí he "just lost the head" when his father admitted sexually abusing his older sisters, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The former head of the Special Branch told the Special Criminal Court today that he believed a Dublin man was a member of an illegal organisation.