A doctor charged with the murder of her three-year-old son in Dublin was too sick to attend a court hearing today, reports Tom Tuite.

Update - 11.03am: A doctor has appeared in court charged with murdering her three-year-old son at their home in Dublin.

A woman in her early 40s has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a toddler in Dublin on Monday.

Gardaí are hoping people in a south Dublin apartment complex heard or saw something that might provide key clues regarding the fatal stabbing of a child at his home, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

Gardaí are hoping people in a south Dublin apartment complex heard or saw something that might provide key clues regarding the fatal stabbing of a child at his home.

The River Poddle gurgles gently at the entrance of the apartment complex where the life of a toddler was extinguished at the point of a blade.

Here's your morning news bulletin.

Latest: The boy stabbed to death in Dublin and his mother, who is in hospital for knife wounds, have been named.

The circumstances in which a three-year-old boy was stabbed and died in south Dublin are being investigated by gardaí tonight.

A recovering alcoholic who beat a man to death following a drunken row at an apartment in Dublin has been jailed for five years.

The son of a man beaten to death in an apartment in Terenure in Dublin has said he often dreams of his father calling him for help.

Update 3.57pm: A security alert has come to an end after a non-viable device was removed from a home in Dublin this afternoon.

Reduced from a five-seater to four, Dublin South-Central has lost a population of more than 9,600 from Terenure and close to 3,000 in Kimmage.

A man has been jailed for falsely imprisoning a female student in what was described in court as “a bizarre” incident.

Landmark Dublin pub Doheny & Nesbitt saw profits grow by €178,749 last year, new accounts show.

Chinese New Year is of particular significance to the thousands of adopted Chinese children living in Ireland and their parents writes 

A budding singer who lost almost all of her sight in one eye after being attacked by teen bullies four years ago says the emotional hurt was worse than the physical injury.

Ulster Bank has confirmed that it is to close a further seven Irish branches, including three in Dublin and one in Cork City.

Despite a marked improvement in the local elections, women still account for just 20% of local councillors, write Adrian Kavanagh, Fiona Buckley, Claire McGing, and Noirín Clancy

A Dublin man who stabbed his father to death with a World War 1 sword has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

A Dublin man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a man in the capital on Saturday night.

Times were horrific for pregnant unmarried women just 40 years ago. Helen O’Callaghan hears of the group who changed all that and more.

A man accused of murdering his father at a flat in Kimmage in Dublin is due to stand trial today.

It’s often said that everybody has a ‘book in them’ and that it is never too late to write.

A 43-year-old man has today appeared before Dublin District Court, charged in connection with a stabbing in South Dublin in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly will host a Strictly Come Dancing live from Wembley Arena on BBC One, 6.30pm today.

ONE FAMILY (formerly Cherish) celebrates its 40th anniversary this week.

Gardaí moved quickly yesterday to arrest two suspects in connection with the shooting of an innocent schoolboy in south Dublin.

A 29-year-old man, originally from Crumlin, has appeared in Dublin District Court charged with murdering his father last January.

A man is due in court later charged in connection with the murder of a man in Dublin two months ago.

A MAN being questioned in connection with the murder of a pensioner at a retirement home was released without charge yesterday.

A man being questioned about the death of an elderly man in Dublin at the weekend has been released without charge.

A 29-year-old man who has been held overnight in connection with the murder of a pensioner in Dublin must be either charged or released this morning.

The body of an elderly man found dead in south Dublin earlier has been removed to the City Morgue shortly where a post mortem examination will be carried out in the morning.

Gardaí are appealing for information following the discovery of a man's body on Dublin's southside.

DOCTORS and hospitals should be legally obliged to tell the truth to patients and their families when a medical accident occurs, according to a new lobby group.

A Dublin alcoholic who suspected a member of his AA group to be a paedophile will be sentenced later for possessing a knife with intent to intimidate.

The State has failed in an attempt to review the nine-year suspended sentence handed down to a brother of Brian Meehan, the man serving life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin.

NEARLY 800 jobs were announced yesterday, with supermarket giant Tesco leading the way in creating the bulk of them as part of a €113 million expansion drive in the Irish market.

A bank clerk took €200,000 from an Allied Irish Bank branch after his friend was taken hostage from their home in a tiger-kidnapping, it was revealed tonight.

OWNERS of cash businesses are on heightened alert after a businessman was brutally assaulted in his home in front of his partner and children.

A man remains in Garda custody this morning in connection with a tiger kidnapping in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí are hunting for an armed and "ruthless" gang who kidnapped a bank official's wife and held her hostage in Dublin.