A woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing two women in a vicious attack in Limerick.

A film actor who starred in the Love/Hate TV series has been jailed for four and a half years after he admitted carrying out a €50,000 armed robbery.

Relocating the Rotunda, lock, stock and babies, from Dublin City centre to Blanchardstown, is Prof Fergal Malone’s ‘number one goal’. But the hospital’s new master isn’t one to shirk a challenge, reports Catherine Shanahan

A 31-year-old painter and decorator, who cut his left hand on a piece of glass in a Dublin sports bar after watching the 2011 All Ireland football final, has been awarded €20,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Love/Hate actor Stephen Clinch has been granted bail pending his trial over a €50,000 armed robbery at a hotel in Dublin city centre.

A 15-year-old girl was subjected to a vicious hiding in a daylight brawl in what a judge described as a disturbing attempt at "summary justice".

In 1979, George Miller created a cinematic icon in Mad Max. Now, you can experience his adventures back on the big screen for a limited time.

Last year saw a surge in tickets issued to motorists who parked in cycle lanes in Cork City, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have shown.

A father-of-four who used false IDs to fraudulently claim €478,000 in social welfare payments was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison.

A total of 15 eateries — including four restaurants on the same Dublin street —were forced to close last month for breaching food safety regulations.

A teenager was accused of breathtaking arrogance, ignorance, and a lack of human feeling by a judge over parking his car across two disabled spaces.

Two men are due in court in Limerick this morning in connection with a violent incident in the city last month during which a man was stabbed in the face.

Five teenagers arrested over the assault of a man in Dublin yesterday have all been released without charge.

GINA Kerry rates the phone calls from strangers in Ghana purporting to have seen her missing aunt and asking for money to be wired through Western Union among the crueller hoaxes she’s endured in the 20-year search for her loved one.

A verdict of misadventure was returned at the inquest of a woman who died after an altercation outside a chipper.

From agent to special agent, the man responsible for managing the day-to-day affairs of the world’s fastest race walker helped pull off a sophisticated sting that landed a stolen gold medal back with its rightful owner.

Irish businesses have lauded towns across the country for cleaning up their act and keeping streets free of litter.

Cold case detectives want to question two men who shared a taxi with a woman on the night a young mother was brutally murdered and dumped in the Dublin mountains.

A man who fell into a coma in garda custody and later died had suffered a head injury prior to his arrest.

WITH Cork to Dublin flights axed, there are only three ways to make it between the two cities in a reasonable time — by car, bus or rail. We decided to put the options to the test and last week, three intrepid journalists headed off from Parnell Place bus station and Kent Train Station in Cork, all with one objective: to get to the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street as quickly as possible...

The Department of Justice spent over €2m on an adult offender reintegration unit at an apartment complex the State’s legal advisers failed to confirm could not be used due to red tape.

Gardaí investigating the death of a woman in Dublin have issued a description of a woman they wish to speak to as part of their enquiries.

Six units of Dublin Fire Brigade are at the scene of a fire at an apartment on Lower Gardiner Street this evening.

BUSINESSES leaders have hit back at a survey which found that parts of Dublin were a litter blackspot.

A MAN was fighting for his life last night after a knife attack on a busy city centre street in Limerick.

TWO mountain biking brothers have pledged to raise money to pursue their dream of competing in European competition by cycling from Dublin to Galway — carrying a fridge.

A protest by a group called ‘The Irish Taxi Council’ caused severe traffic delays for Dublin commuters from 8am right through the day, and on into evening rush hour, according AA Roadwatch.

Tesco is to slash prices by up to a third across the state to woo bargain-hunting shoppers but admitted charges have also gone up for hundreds of products.

The victim of a shooting in Limerick last week is on a life-support machine at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle.

Gardaí have increased their patrols across Limerick city following the shooting of an 18-year-old man yesterday evening.

A man in his teens remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital in Limerick this morning after he was shot by a lone masked gunman in the city yesterday evening.

Centra has announced the opening of its four hundredth store.

An ambulance has overturned after a collision with a car in Dublin's north inner city this morning.

Jurys chairman Richard Hooper has told the hotel group's AGM today that the company was seeing a recovery in a number of its market segments.

The death toll from the Dublin bombings of 1974 is to be officially increased to 27 in order to take into account the death of an unborn child among the victims.

Several hundred protesters in the reclaim the streets march have blocked Parnell St in Dublin.

SHARES in Jurys Doyle are undervalued, according to Dolmen Securities who believe there is a 23% upside in the shares over the next 12 months.

Gardai in Limerick are investigating an assault which took place in the city last night.