DUBLIN’S chewing-gum black- spots have been named and shamed as the city council seeks a contractor to clean up the capital’s sticky problem.

SHOCKED workers at department store Arnotts were coming to terms with the revelation bankers are set to take control of the debt-ridden retailer.

Angry Thomas Cook staff staged a sit-in at one of the company’s Irish branches today over redundancy terms following the early closure of the High Street operation in Ireland.

MORE than 10,000 people die each year from Ireland’s most fatal disease.

ARNOTTS yesterday confirmed staff fears that it is to slash almost 580 jobs as part of “‘operational changes”’ in advance of moving to new premises.

THE leafy avenues of Dublin’s embassy belt have been replaced by the rolling fields of Roscommon as the most desirable address in the land.

A protest took place outside a Dunnes Stores shop in Dublin's North Earl Street this afternoon.

People who fell foul of garda dogs faced “ruff justice” in the 1960s.

DUNNES Stores has made a substantial donation to a good cause after admitting 10 counts of failing to display prices of grocery items at three of its Dublin stores.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of a 49-year old woman who has been missing from her home at Townsend St since the weekend.

HE was found in a bewildered state wandering the streets of Dublin. He did not know who he was.