A promising athlete has avoided a custodial sentence for taking part in an attempted hi-jacking of a taxi driver who suffered a black-out when he was choked during a robbery in Dublin.

The six named complainants include journalists and writers. A number of them were present for the hearing today but they were not required to give evidence.

The opening of the new Kevin Street Garda Station is a timely boost for the force, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe

A cyclist who died following a collision with a taxi in Dublin city centre died from hypovolemic shock.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of a man on Dublin's South Circular Road on Tuesday.

A murder investigation has begun into the death of a man in his 20s in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí have arrested a teenager in Dublin after reports of a disturbance at a house involving a gun.

A man has been charged in connection with a cash-in-transit robbery in Dublin on Thursday.

A man has been questioned by gardaí in Dublin in connection with a serious assault on a man in the Camden Street area of the city on November 30 last year.

A man is due before Dublin District Court this evening charged in relation to a cash-in-transit robbery.

A man has been arrested following a raid on a cannabis grow house in Dublin's South Inner City.

A man has been released after being arrested in connection with an explosion on a quiet Dublin street.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in connection with an explosion in the city centre earlier this year.

A 48-year-old man has appeared in court charged over a stabbing in Dublin's south inner city yesterday morning.

Gardaí are working on finding a motive for a brutal stabbing in Dublin which left a woman critically ill in hospital.

A woman is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed several times in Dublin City centre this morning.

Gardaí have arrested four people in a drugs raid in Dublin.

Gardaí are appealing for a young woman who was allegedly attacked in Dublin yesterday to come forward.

A man in his forties is in a serious condition after an assault in Dublin late last night.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man shot dead in Dublin last month have released a man without charge.

A man has today been arrested by gardaí investigating the murder of Michael Kelly.

An honours schoolboy, who dropped out of education and got into crack cocaine dealing after he developed a cannabis addiction problem, has been sentenced to nine months’ probation.

A murder investigation has been launched into the death of Christopher Warren, who is from St Teresa's Gardens in Dublin.

A man shot dead in Co Kildare has been named locally as Ned Hamilton.

A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Dublin last night.

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

Gardaí are continuing to question two teenagers in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old German student in Dublin.

Two teenagers have been arrested by Gardaí in Dublin investigating the killing of a man in Rialto this morning.

Gardaí in Dublin investigating the killing of a man in Rialto this morning have arrested a teenager.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 32 year old man in Dublin two months ago have made a double arrest.

A development company says it is €40 million in the red because the State did not honour an agreement to give it a building used as a Garda station, the Commercial Court has heard.

The jury are deliberating in the trial of a Dublin man accused of a double murder in the city.

The mother of a Dublin man accused of a double murder told him she’d rather have a son who was murdered than a rat, his Central Criminal Court trial has heard.

A Dublin father accused of murdering two men told gardaí he had tried to kill himself because of the pressure he was under while in custody.

A Dublin man accused of a double murder in the city two years ago told gardaí that they had put him under pressure to confess to the crime.

The fingerprint of a Dublin man accused of membership of the IRA was found on a plastic bag used to wrap a sawn-off shotgun, his Special Criminal Court trial has heard today.

A man has been arrested after a woman was attacked in Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A man is being questioned tonight over a blaze at a Dublin city centre church.

THREE people remained in Garda custody overnight in relation to death threats made against a Sunday newspaper reporter.

Two men and two women are being questioned over death threats against a journalist following a story that a suspected criminal was stopped by gardaí while wearing women’s underwear.

A Dublin man charged with firearms offences has been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court.

A GARDA has said a colleague accused of assaulting a man after forcing entry to his flat told her not to say anything if asked about the alleged incident.