A Dublin man who threatened others with a crutch during a violent fight which left another man dead has been sentenced for two and a half years, with the final year suspended.

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton is welcoming today's announcement from FAZTech to set up a research facility at Park West in Dublin.

An international health insurance company is to create 128 new jobs in Dublin.

FORMER broadcaster Mike Murphy has resigned from the board of directors of property development firm Harcourt Developments.

POLITICAL donations to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael from one of the country’s biggest property developers totalled €3,700 last year as it posted pre-tax losses of €23.8 million.

The body of a man has been found in the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Boots' Irish operations is to move its headquarters here to Park West in Dublin having acquired over 1,000 square metres of office space, the company said today.

GARDAÍ hope to bring charges against a number of top criminals involved in a violent gang feud in west Dublin following a gun and drug seizure.

Four people were being questioned today in connection with the murder of a British man outside a bar in Dublin.

Two Dublin men who were caught red handed making pipe bombs for the INLA were each sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court today.

Two of the men charged last month with possession of explosive materials in Dublin have been released on bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded in custody five men arrested in connection with the discovery of explosive materials in a Dublin apartment.

GARDAÍ smashed a sophisticated bomb-making factory operated by a terrorist organisation in west Dublin yesterday.

Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has formally opened Ireland's latest train station at Park West-Cherry Orchard in west Dublin.

The world's largest business intelligence company is to build a €29m research and development facility in Dublin, employing 100 people when complete.

A TELECOMS expert has told the Central Criminal Court certain mobile phone records were not consistent with accounts Joe O’Reilly gave to gardaí about his movements on the day of his wife’s murder.

An Irish computer firm has announced plans to create 27 new jobs as part of an expansion at its Dublin headquarters.

DMG Services, the Irish business services group, will this week launch a €2 million expansion of its File Stores records centre in Dublin’s Park West.

Over 250 jobs are to be created in Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Galway and Mayo by a property management firm, it was confirmed today.

JUST nine months after the smoking ban was introduced, Imperial Tobacco yesterday announced the closure of its cigarette factory in Dublin with the loss of 90 jobs.

HARCOURT Developments, the property firm backed by RTÉ presenter Mike Murphy, has swung into a loss.

THE IDA has continued its success in attracting top companies to Ireland with a French software firm planning to create up to 350 jobs over the next three years.

Data Electronics is to acquire the complete assets of the Wolfe Group.