Two of the country’s longest serving overseas development agencies have joined forces to fight hunger in Africa under a merger that will make them the biggest organisation of their kind in Ireland or Britain.

Former Junior Minister and Fianna Fáil TD Ivor Callely has been arrested in connection with alleged fraud.

The Department of Social Protection is holding a jobs fair in Dublin city centre today in collaboration with the Irish Hotel Federation and the Restaurant Association of Ireland.

The trial of a Belfast man accused of murdering a taxi driver in the city almost four years ago dramatically collapsed at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Eight Limerick men arrested as part of an investigation into extortion appeared briefly at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Two men who were found guilty by the Special Criminal Court today of having bomb-making equipment at a Dublin apartment last year were the last people to be convicted at the Green Street courthouse in Dublin.

A Glasgow man became the first person to be given a prison sentence at the historic first sitting of the new €140m Criminal Courts of Justice at Parkgate St in Dublin today.

A new bus lane has come into effect on Dublin's quays this morning.