The woman was found, in a freezing and very distressed state, outside the GPO on O’Connell Street shortly after 9pm by a homeless volunteer who runs a soup kitchen for the homeless every Thursday night.

This decade has been a fusion of revolution and domination.

Philip Gillivan said while he accepts the drugs issue is complex and requires a multi-agency response, something must be done to clean up the city centre.

A MARBLE portrait bust of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baron Ashford, by John Henry Foley comes up at Bonhams in London on November 27.

As we cast about for signs ahead of this evening’s replay, Michael Moynihan suggested a face-off between Castleknock’s Colin Farrell and Fossa’s Michael Fassbender, seeing some eerie omens for each county in their film roles.

It’s just after noon on the day of the All-Ireland hurling final. About one thousand Tipperary people are gathered on Talbot Street in Dublin.

The incident happened at around 10.15am at Ennis Mart on the outskirts of the town.

A 28-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with the murder of of his friend who who was stabbed to death on Dublin’s O’Connell Street.

The 39-year old from Kilkenny was attacked at around 1.40am in the early hours of Tuesday.

Latest: Gardaí say they have identified the victim of this morning's fatal stabbing in the capital.

An economic report compiled for Limerick City and County Council by consultants EY-DKM Economic Advisory says the rent disparity between Limerick city and county could worsen the so-called “hollowing out” of the city centre.

The planned c €100m roll out of sale and leaseback of retail properties by Irish bookseller Eason continues to gather pace, with the arrival of its Cork flagship store at 113-115 St Patrick’s Street for sale, guiding €6.6 million.

Easter Sunday, upstairs in Cashman’s Bar, Academy Street, Cork. Liverpool are one up against Cardiff and on their way back to the top of the Premier League.

Alannah Corrigan was last seen on Wednesday morning.

Trish Dromey says high priced sales are rare on the Ennis Road, now is your chance to join the nouveau ‘niche‘.

A new Sligo food trail offers a new take on the city — and a taste of the unexpected, says Caroline Hennessy.

Ruth O’Connor discovers Margaret O’Connor’s mischievous street art millinery popping up in some unusual spots.

Éamonn Cregan is looking through a window in the Hunt Museum Café, out at the Shannon running away with itself, a dull August afternoon rising merely to scurries, writes PM O’Sullivan

Organisers of an annual charity rugby match held each year in memory of “fallen” rugby stars, are to dedicate this year’s event to two young rugby players who lost their lives in a double drowning tragedy.

The woman, whose two teenage children remain in the property, was jailed by the High Court on April 27 last over contempt of possession orders granted to EBS Ltd in 2015 which were upheld on appeal but stayed to April 2017.

A mother has offered her house as collateral in a desperate bid to raise €100,000 to sponsor her daughter’s life-saving operation in Spain

Umbrellas will not be allowed inside the venue and as this is an outdoor event please keep watch on the weather forecast and dress accordingly.

A man who admitted providing funding to the terrorist organisation Islamic State is due to be sentenced in June.

A veteran taxi driver has been cleared of not bringing passengers on the shortest journey from Dublin Airport to Temple Bar after demonstrating to a court that the longer route he picked was cheaper.

Plans for a new €10m tourist attraction in Limerick dedicated to rugby have been kicked to touch following an objection to An Bord Pleanála that the development will threaten the city’s rich Georgian heritage.

Developer Johnny Ronan’s development group has stated that it is ‘bewildered’ and ‘disappointed’ by the Bord Pleanála decision to refuse planning permission for its 22 storey tower at George's Quay in Dublin.

Planning permission is to be sought for a rugby museum in Limerick, backed by JP McManus and Paul O’Connell.

Decorating a Christmas tree for the first time? From history and family traditions to interior trends and home-made baubles, Caomhan Keane has all you need to know

Planning a pre-Christmas shopping trip to Dublin with the girls? Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best hotels for a perfect girls’ weekend in the capital.

At the age of 17, Brian Prendergast followed a long family tradition of finding a career in music through the army. He’s now the Cork-based conductor of one of the defence forces’ best bands, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Seamus O’Brien was barely a teenager when his brother Pascal arrived back home from seminary one time to usher him and another brother Brendan out the door and on to a train bound for Kingsbridge Station in Dublin.

Dublin Chamber says any delay to Metro North will cost the city jobs and investment.

There he is there outside Penneys on O’Connell Street.

Life must surely be worth living for anyone that opens their eyes to the beauty all around us. And, often, we don’t have far to go, writes Donal Hickey.

A judge has refused to throw out a criminal prosecution against businesswoman Deirdre Foley who is facing trial over collective redundancies at Clerys department store.

It feels like only yesterday hurling supporters were venturing to Thurles for the Cork-Tipperary Munster SHC quarter-final. Now we are just days away from the most novel All-Ireland final-day for many, many years.

Update 28/07/2017: John Burns (43) who was missing from Kildare has been found safe and well.

Sally Caulwell: Illustrator and designer

Kya deLongchamps reveals Ireland’s special claim to fame and the dramatic role it played in colonising the Earth before the Age of the Dinosaur

You heard them before you saw them.

Update 7.35am: Naoise Mac Anna has been found safe and well.

A former Sinn Féin councillor who physically and mentally tortured a man he believed was trying to defraud him has been jailed for 12 years by the Special Criminal Court.

When the owners of 4 Shannon Terrace on Limerick’s South Circular Road pulled up the carpets and tore down the wallpaper of their new home, they were very pleasantly surprised.