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I am a young person with a learning disability. The thing I want most in the whole world is a job.

A Dublin creche has been fined €1,000 and allowed to stay open after a staff member was secretly filmed “rough-handling” and shouting at children.

Even if it was not about the rise and fall of former taoiseach Charles Haughey, RTÉ’s three-part drama would still have great entertainment value.

RTÉ has been asked to explain what additional evidence it has on a creche owner facing trial for breaking child laws following an undercover exposé.

Dublin Fire Brigade had a very busy Halloween night receiving more than 600 calls.

A North Dublin creche is being prosecuted following an investigation by RTE's Prime Time into alleged mistreatment of children.

A Trinity College graduate and three men intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a gun dealer have received sentences ranging from six to seven years for the possession of firearms and ammunition.

A Trinity College graduate and two men who were intercepted by armed gardaí outside the premises of a firearms dealer have been found guilty of the possession of handguns and ammunition.

The mystery buyer of Charles Haughey’s mansion wants to restore the 18th-century palatial spread to its former glory.

Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing a 32-year-old man missing from his Dublin home since Monday last.

Whether Charles Haughey, or friends tipped off by him, made a killing from his foreknowledge, as Minister for Finance, of Sterling’s 1967 devaluation, no one can tell, or if they can, they can only do so off the record.

A man has been injured in a shooting in Co Dublin.

Charles Haughey was only “mildly impressed” by Mary McAleese as President and, three years before his death, made disparaging remarks about Bertie Ahern’s intelligence.

Gardaí in Coolock are continuing to question a man in connection with an armed robbery on the northside of Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in his 20s in connection with the armed robbery of a cash-in-transit van on the north side of the city today.

I’M standing in a Georgian building in Dublin, staring at a jar of honey.

A judge has today refused to throw out the case of a Dublin man charged with possession of a stolen monkey.

A prominent member of socialist republican group Éirígí is one of four Dublin people who appeared before an out-of-hours sitting of the Special Criminal Court this evening, charged with possessing two handguns and ammunition.

It is grotesquely hilarious to witness the Haughey family demanding and receiving an apology from the estate agents Savills because the agency mistakenly claimed that Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi and Margaret Thatcher had visited the former Taoiseach’s home in Kinsealy.

Abbeville and its grounds, which were the site of the home of former taoiseach Charles J Haughey, are up for sale for an asking price of €7.5m.

The former home of ex-Taoiseach Charles J Haughey is up for sale with a pricetag of €7.5m.

Irish consumption of soft fruit has almost trebled during the last decade, with €35m-worth of strawberries annually topping the league.

The High Court has made orders winding up development company Manor Park Homebuilders Ltd on the application of a bank which is owed some €135m by the firm.

It was once the home of the rich and (in)famous.

Treasury Holdings has been granted a preliminary High Court hearing, for this morning, challenging a move by Nama to appoint receivers to a number of its Irish-based properties following the non-repayment of the company’s loans to the agency.

A DUBLIN chef who was the getaway driver in two robberies has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

CONSUMERS can help sustain Irish jobs by buying home-produced seed potatoes, apples and other horticulture goods, according to one Teagasc expert.

A young man who rammed a pursuing garda patrol car in a stolen jeep after colliding with a van while driving through Baldoyle at high speed has received a six year sentence with three years suspended.

TEAGASC has reported significant progress in putting in place the first phase of a change plan which includes the closure of 40 of its 91 offices countrywide.

FOLLOWING the publication of my book, Haughey’s Forty Years of Controversy, I was invited on the late Gerry Ryan’s radio programme. I assumed the interview would be for about 12 minutes. I had done a couple of other interviews with him previously about Éamon de Valera, but we were in separate studios for each of those and had never actually met before.

GERRY RYAN once used the home of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey to produce an irreverent schoolboys’ magazine, Fianna Fáil TD Sean Haughey fondly recalled yesterday.

A SECOND round of Teagasc training courses for land owners considering converting to organic farming will take place later this month.

TEAGASC is to sell its Kilmaley, Co Clare farm of 49 hectares (121 acres) and about one hectare (2.5 acres) with development potential at Kinsealy in north Dublin.

Charles Haughey’s family hope his private papers handed over to a university today will restore his standing as political giant – but the public will have to wait until 2022 to see them.

THE wounded associate of a notorious heroin dealer, gunned down in a gangland attack this week, has died.

A “PARANOID” crime boss is the top suspect behind the first gangland attack of the year, which left one man dead and another man fighting for his life.

A 35-year-old man has died and a second man is in a serious condition following a gangland-style gun attack in Dublin's north inner city last night.

A Kinsealy teenager who took part in a drunken unprovoked attack on a man who attempted to break up a group of youths fighting on their debs night has been given a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

Around €30,000 worth of ecstasy tablets were recovered in a raid in north Dublin, detectives said today.