More than 100,000 people in Dublin are living and sleeping with noise pollution.

A mechanic who fatally injured a student in a hit and run accident and later claimed someone else had been driving his car has been jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.

A man who repeatedly stabbed a life-long friend after a drink and drugs binge and called gardaí himself after leaving the man he believed he had killed alone in the flat for an hour has been sentenced to six years in prison.

A Dublin man has admitted to dangerous driving causing the death of a woman almost two years ago.

A man was due to appear before Dublin District Court this afternoon in connection with a fatal hit-and-run accident last year.

Further tests are to be carried out on the body of woman found dead in a house in south Dublin, gardaí said tonight.

Gardaí were today investigating the death of a woman found in a house in south Dublin.

Three people have died in the last 24 hours following separate road accidents in Tipperary, Cork and Dublin.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in connection with a hit-and-run incident that has left young woman fighting for her life in hospital.

HUNDREDS of Irish people queued to sign books of condolences for the victims of the Beslan school massacre.

A drug addict who committed over 40 crimes in less than a year, including dousing a service station assistant with petrol and threatening to burn him, has been jailed for 13 years.

A chronic drug addict who doused a filling station assistant with petrol and threatened to set him alight, before robbing money from the shop and getting away in a stolen car, has been remanded in custody for sentence on June 15.