An incident room has been set-up by gardaí following a sexual assault on a woman in Dublin.

The numbers of people visiting Northern Ireland has mushroomed in the years since ‘The Troubles’ was still a phrase that merited common usage on this island. 

The state funeral of Albert Reynolds is continuing in Donnybrook in Dublin, and has heard a moving eulogy from his son Philip.

Anglo Irish Bank and EBS engaged in reckless practices in lending to Thomas Byrne, it has been suggested at the former solicitor’s theft and fraud trial.

The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

A man's body has been found in Co Wicklow.

Two south county Sublin teenagers who robbed a pizza delivery man after placing a false order with a fast-food shop have been sentenced to a total of five and a half years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Several roads in Dublin and surrounding counties have been hit by flooding following heavy rainfall overnight.

A man accused of strangling his wife told gardaí he did not believe his wife would kill herself and leave her son, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A section of Dublin's M50 remains closed to motorists this morning.

Motorists using the M50 in Dublin can expect disruptions this evening because of the overnight closure of the road between Leopardstown and Shankhill.

A 48-year-old woman is dead following a house fire in Dublin last night.

Two policing board members clashed today on the eve of a meeting between Irish President Mary McAleese and the North’s most senior police officer in Belfast.

President Mary McAleese is to hold talks with Northern Ireland’s most senior police officer, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde, it emerged today.

A heroin addict who threw a bag of stolen goods into his neighbour’s garden during a Garda raid was today given a three-year suspended sentence for burglary.

Thousands of people waited patiently for up to six-hours today simply to receive a warm embrace from an Indian spiritual leader known as the ’hugging saint’.

A man who held gardaí at gunpoint at Shankhill yesterday afternoon has escaped from a Dublin hospital.

Heroin, with an estimated street value of €30,000, has been seized during a house raid in South Dublin.

UDA leader, Johnny Adair, freed from jail this morning, has been welcomed back in the Shankhill heartland.