A homeless man who set fire to a city centre church in Dublin has been cleared of causing €4m worth of damages by reason of insanity.

A Dublin priest has said that if an audit were done of every religious congregation in the country, many more cases of child abuse - and their cover-up - would be revealed.

A 48-year-old man has been remanded in custody for a further two weeks having been charged with arson following a fire at St Catherine's Church on Meath Street in Dublin last week.

A 48-year-old man has appeared in Dublin District Court charged with arson following a fire at St Catherine's Church on Meath Street yesterday.

A man in his 50s is due in court in Dublin this morning following a fire at a church on Meath Street in Dublin yesterday.

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

A Dublin garda station under renovation is allowing local youths to spray graffiti around its construction site.

A young man was recovering today after he was wounded in a gangland style shooting.

A young man was fighting for his life today after being shot several times in a gangland attack in Dublin.

A man was seriously injured in a shooting attack in Dublin’s south inner city last night.

TWO men were killed in separate house fires over the festive period in Dublin and Tipperary.

A SECURITY guard was charged yesterday with the murder of a man in a Dublin pub just over a fortnight ago.

A man, arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating the murder of champion kickboxer Jimmy Curran, is still being questioned.

A man is being questioned today in connection with the shooting dead of a martial arts champion in a Dublin city pub a fortnight ago.

A man who was being questioned in relation to the murder of champion kickboxer James Curran has been released without charge, it emerged today.

DETECTIVES were last night confident of tracking down a cold-blooded killer who sat in a pub for at least 45 minutes looking at his victim prior to shooting him dead.

A large consignment of fake designer clothing has been seized in Co Dublin.

THE funeral of a 13-year-old overdose victim will be held this weekend in a church where drug addicts smear blood on statues and shoot up in confession boxes.

UP to 130 drug dealers including 15 cocaine dealers and one crack cocaine dealer have been caught in Dublin following a six-week undercover garda operation.

Gardaí in Dublin today launched a major crackdown on drug dealers.

THE gangland killing of a major heroin dealer in Dublin’s south inner city may have been over a drug deal gone wrong or a row over territory, sources said yesterday.