A Romanian man who stole cash from a Dublin ATM with cloned credit cards has been sentenced to three years in jail with the final 18 months suspended.

TOUR operator Budget Travel is set to axe 95 jobs and almost half of its Irish stores by October as part of a “restructuring” process caused by a 40% drop in customers.

The High Court has granted orders for the winding up of four companies in the Thomas Read group on grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a massive redevelopment of the Arnotts and Penneys sites in Dublin city centre.

A planning decision on a billion-euro revamp of one of Dublin city centre's busy shopping areas is expected today.

A PLANNING decision on a multi-million-euro revamp of one of Dublin city centre’s busy shopping areas has been delayed.

A planning decision on a multi million euro revamp of one of Dublin city centre's busy shopping areas has been delayed, it emerged today.

ARNOTTS has today received planning permission from Dublin City Council for its plans to transform the area of Dublin city centre bounded by Henry Street, O’Connell Street, Abbey Street and Liffey Street.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) tonight moved to allay fears doctors were making judgment calls on results from cervical smear tests carried out in the US.

Doctors are being forced to make judgment calls on cervical smear tests analysed in the US putting thousands of women at risk, a leading health lobby warned today.

Efforts by Dublin City Council to encourage recycling on the streets of the capital have gone to waste.

GARDAÍ have issued a fresh appeal for information on the tenth anniversary of the murder of a prostitute in Dublin’s city centre.

Arnotts is on the look-out for a development partner to work on a revamped 'Northern Quarter' in Dublin city centre.

THERE has been a significant increase in the number of detected cases of the sexually transmitted infection, Chlamydia, in recent months, according to the Well Woman Centre.

A co-ordinated national sexual health strategy is now essential to promote safer sexual health practices and achieve early disease detection, according to the Well Woman Centre.

THE Government received a school report card yesterday, warning it “must do better” to help educate children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

An out of school 15-year-old was today detained for two years on his 64th conviction for a litany of petty crimes committed over the last two and a half years.

LUAS works will not stop for the Christmas period as reported, but will continue within the confines of the tram lines, the Railway Procurement Agency said yesterday.