A local TD has said that if bombs found in a housing estate in Dublin yesterday has gone off, the scene would have been like something from the Troubles.

Four viable bombs found in Harold's Cross, Dublin, have been made safe this evening.

An Irish priest is in a serious condition in hospital after being knocked down in Rome two days ago.

CELEBRATIONS welcoming Ireland’s newest Catholic saint continue in Rome today with a special mass for pilgrims who attended the canonisation.

A Dutch priest who spent most of life in Dublin is to be canonised.

A teenager who cut a woman in the throat before taking her car has been jailed for four and a half years by Judge Joseph Mathews at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

ONE of the longest-serving Fianna Fáil councillors in Dublin has vehemently denied taking £1,000 from Frank Dunlop for supporting efforts to rezone land owned by St Gerard’s School in Bray for housing.

Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Garda Michael Padden at Shanaghy Church on the Mullet peninsula in Belmullet, Co Mayo.

The Gardai have announced details of the funerals of two officers who died in a car crash in south Dublin yesterday morning.

The Garda Siochana celebrates the 80th anniversary of its foundation today.

A 17-year-old motorist has become the second overnight casualty on Ireland's roads.

A man in his 30s has died after he lost control of his bicycle and crashed into a pole in Dublin.