More than 100,000 people in Dublin are living and sleeping with noise pollution.

A man who crashed a stolen vehicle into an elderly motorist leaving him with severe injuries has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail with the final two suspended.

A GAA coach was caught “red-handed” with more than half-a-million euro worth of cannabis during a drug seizure in Dublin, a court heard yesterday.

Two men have appeared in court charged in connection with the seizure of almost half a million euro worth of cannabis in the capital.

Four men remain in garda custody this morning after over €500,000 worth of cannabis was seized in Dublin yesterday.

Four men have been arrested after drugs with a street value of around half a million euro were seized in a wave of raids across Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men in relation to the killing of Darren Guerrine four years ago.

A fresh arrest warrant has been issued for a man who escaped from prison last year with more than four years left to serve on his sentence.

A CONVICTED gunman, currently on bail for a firearms charge, was arrested by gardaí after he opened fire during a post-funeral drink-fuelled row.

A teenage boy lured two youths into a robbery, held a knife to one of their throats and attacked both of them with a gas cylinder, it was alleged at the Dublin Children's Court heard today.

A 17-year-old boy arrested for leading gardai on a 150kmph car chase along the M50 in Dublin, was remanded in custody today at the Children's Court.

An elderly man has died in hospital from injuries he sustained in a road crash in Dublin three days ago.

A cocaine-addicted father who was caught with almost €140,000 in cannabis resin has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A DUBLIN hotel has been reprimanded by rights chiefs for a second time and fined more than €8,000 for victimising a waitress by insisting she wear a skirt at work.

A drunken father of three who crashed his car into two French tourists who had arrived in Ireland hours before causing them catastrophic injuries which killed them instantly has been given an eight-year sentence.

A Tallaght man will be sentenced tomorrow at Dublin Circuit Court for causing the death of two French tourists in a car accident last year.

A Ballyfermot man who assaulted a taxi driver, leaving him with a fractured skull, while on bail for ramming a Garda car with stolen car he had driven at 160 kilometres per hour, has been given a six-year sentence.

A Westmeath "rampant addict" who collected a van loaded with heroin valued at €1.6 m because of his €25,000 "drugs debt" has had been jailed for seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Poor weather conditions have caused traffic and travel disruption.

A Westmeath “rampant addict” who picked up a van loaded with heroin valued €1.6m because of his €25,000 “drugs debt” has had his sentence adjourned so that he can be psychologically assessed.

SEVERE overnight flooding caused chaos for rush hour motorists yesterday as businesses and schools reopened after the Easter break.

The body of a man was found on the banks of Dublin’s Grand Canal this morning.

GARDAÍ investigating a double murder in Dublin earlier in this month were delighted by the response from a television appeal on Tuesday.

A DUBLIN drug dealer is expected to appear in court this morning in relation to a large drugs haul.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested two men following a €250,000 cannabis seizure in the south of the city yesterday evening.

GARDAÍ are examining CCTV footage as part of their investigation into the deaths of two French tourists who were killed by a vehicle on Wednesday night.

Gardaí in west Dublin have arrested a man in his 20s following the deaths of two French women in an overnight road accident.

An overnight road accident in the Ballyfermot area of Dublin has claimed the lives of two French women.

A convicted Laois drug dealer who threw a cache of heroin under a garda car after he was stopped for a search has been jailed for seven years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Fast-food chain McDonald’s has unveiled new-look restaurants on Upper O’Connell Street, Kylemore Road and Donaghmede Shopping Centre in Dublin, which have been subject to a revamp as part of the group's €39m restaurant refurbishment programme.

Gardaí in Dublin have launched investigations into two separate shooting incidents in the city.

Extra safety mirrors should be made compulsory on all trucks after an 80-year-old pedestrian was run over by a lorry on Dublin’s quays, a jury recommended tonight.

Three people were being questioned by gardaí today after cannabis resin with an estimated street value of €35,000 was seized in south Dublin.

A YOUNG man shot dead in his bed may have been killed because of a petty dispute over damage to property.

Six adults and a young child were treated for minor injuries after an ambulance overturned in a collision, it was confirmed tonight.

A student who caused almost €29,000 worth of damage when he set fire to a primary school classroom "just out of boredom" has been given two years detention.

The McDonalds restaurant giant has launched its first Irish McCafe in an effort to move into the gourmet coffee market in Ireland.

There has been another attempt at an armed raid on a security van in Dublin.

Two more pipe bomb attacks have been staged in Northern Ireland during the night.

Another pipe bomb attack was launched in Northern Ireland early today, police said.

The public in the North is being warned not to pick up suspicious items after a man picked up a pipe bomb without realising that he was in danger.

A number of people have been evacuated from their homes following a security alert in Co Derry.

Several homes in Coleraine, Co Derry, were evacuated last night following the discovery of a suspect device.