PROPERTY mogul, Sean Dunne, has been granted planning permission for a major residential, hotel and retail development at the D4Hotels site in Ballsbridge in Dublin.

A MEMBER of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority sent an email declaring “happy days” and “our pension is now secured” after the DDDA board sanctioned the authority becoming involved in the purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site at Ringsend, later bought for €412 million, the Commercial Court has heard.

I SUPPORT of the suggestion by Nora Comiskey (Letters, June 14) to rename Dublin Airport after Tom Clarke to coincide with the Easter Rising centenary.

THE Dublin Docklands Development Authority has denied it or its former chief executive Paul Maloney made “representations” to developer Bernard McNamara which induced him to get involved in a joint bid with the authority for the Irish Glass Bottle site at Ringsend and caused him massive losses.

The Defence Forces have declared the discovery of a suspicious device outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin a false alarm.

An investigation is underway after a suspicious device was discovered outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin.

A FIRM of estate agents has brought a legal action against one of the country’s largest property developers claiming €1.5 million in unpaid fees.

A MAJOR security alert at the Israeli embassy in Ballsbridge Dublin occurred yesterday following the discovery of suspect package containing a powder substance.

Army bomb disposal experts have been called out to the Israeli Embassy in Dublin this morning following the discovery of a suspicious substance.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) tonight moved to allay fears doctors were making judgment calls on results from cervical smear tests carried out in the US.

Doctors are being forced to make judgment calls on cervical smear tests analysed in the US putting thousands of women at risk, a leading health lobby warned today.

THE residents of Waterloo Road in Dublin 4 and the commuters using that route have suffered for many months as a result of road works which are slowly progressing and the end may be in sight at least for those blessed with good vision.

PROPERTY developer Sean Dunne has won the fierce battle to buy hotel operator Jurys Doyle’s prestigious five-acre Ballsbridge site in Dublin.

GROWING numbers of women in their 50s and 60s are seeking treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and are less savvy than teenagers about sexual health.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information from the public about the murder of a 38-year-old Croatian man in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin earlier this week.

GARDAÍ have launched a full-scale murder investigation into the death of a Croatian national in Dublin after postmortem results indicated the victim had died from stab wounds.

Gardaí in Dublin have named the Croatian man whose body was found in the Ballsbridge area of the city yesterday as 38-year-old Eldin Palangic.

Gardaí in Dublin are treating the death of a Croatian man in the city yesterday as murder after a post mortem confirmed he had sustained a number of stab wounds.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a Croatian man found dead at an apartment in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin yesterday afternoon.

A 24 year-old Dublin man who alerted gardai to a "grizzly scene" where his homeless teenage girlfriend had been “viciously strangled” was later arrested and charged with her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher has spoken of how he feared for his life in a New York jail while awaiting extradition to Ireland.

High winds and rain last night have caused some minor damage and flooding in the east of the country.

A murder inquiry is under way following the death of a woman in Dublin.

Gardai have launched a murder Inquiry following the discovery of the body of a woman in South Dublin.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a woman in South Dublin.