One third of Irish hotels have changed owners since 2011, including four out of five in Cork City, generating almost €2.5bn in sales, according to a study by property consultants Savills Ireland.

A Dutchman who was arrested in a luxury Dublin apartment during a Garda operation targeting the Kinahan organised crime gang has been refused bail on bogus passport charges.

Two men have been arrested after cocaine and heroin worth €65,000 was seized in Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question four people after a heroin worth around €3,000 was found in the city centre yesterday.

The Garda chief leading the investigation into the murder on Halloween of 21-year-old Lorcan O’Reilly has said there are people who “know what happened” and he urged them to come forward.

A Garda and an employee of the Sunday World yesterday told the High Court they saw former Premier League star David Speedie in the company of an alleged gangland figure.

Three people were killed in accidents on the roads in counties Cork, Longford, and Mayo over the weekend.

A man in his 20s is seriously ill in hospital after an early-morning assault in Dublin that left him with head injuries.

As many as one in five drivers are evading fines because of weaknesses in the fixed-penalty system, an investigation has found.

Gardaí were in talks with the DPP last night on whether charges should be brought against a man for a serious sexual assault on a woman with special needs.

The head of the agency collecting the household charge revealed how he and staff have been threatened, how he received hate mail and how a shotgun cartridge was sent to a senior staff member as a death threat.

A 21-year-old trainee mechanic was charged today with killing journalist Eugene Moloney who died after an assault in Dublin city centre at the weekend.

Two men arrested as part of the murder investigation into the death of journalist Eugene Moloney remained in custody overnight.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men in connection with the murder of a man in Dublin yesterday.

THE SIGN next to the lift in the General Register Office (GRO) in Dublin says it all: “Due to an unprecedented increase in customers accessing the genealogy services it may be necessary to close the office at times.”

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question three teenagers in connection with the shooting dead of 19-year-old Paul McCarthy.

A paraplegic man was jailed for three years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for INLA membership linked to a plot to a kidnap a Cork businessman.

Four men arrested during a garda investigation into an alleged INLA plot to kidnap a Cork businessman were jailed for INLA membership by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Three men charged with INLA membership were granted bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

Two men were arrested tonight after a suspected gun was recovered by gardaí in inner-city Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have formally launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a man's body at a sheltered accommodation complex for pensioners in the south inner city yesterday.

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

A GARDA was arrested and questioned this weekend over allegations he sexually assaulted a colleague.

Gardaí at Kevin Street in Dublin have appealed for information relating to the theft of van from Curzon Street in the city last night.

A Dublin man accused of murdering his father allegedly told gardaí he “just wanted to hurt him as he raped my sister”, a jury heard at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man is recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg and hip in Dublin early this morning.

A garda has received hospital treatment following a joyriding collision in Dublin's south inner city this morning.

A controversial new traffic plan comes into operation in Dublin for the first time today.