Gardaí are finalising a file in relation to the death of a toddler who died of methadone toxicity.

St John of Gods says it cannot afford to keep the 60 residential beds at St Joseph's in Shankill open.

Violence in the North, the space race, and the infamous Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy were in the headlines 50 years ago. All three issues were to appear in the headlines for the years and decades to come.

Garret Hevey and David Peile have been jailed for a fraud in which they induced dozens to invest over €5m in a forestry investment scam.

A 40-year old man who sued the State after an unmarked garda car involved in the pursuit of another driver crashed into him is facing a large legal costs bill after he lost his High Court action for damages.

John Pender, 53, from Shankill, Dublin was stabbed to death in the early hours of Friday morning last in the Pogs Old Irish Rock pub in Fuengirola, Spain.

As she returns to Cork with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Jenny Greene talks candidly about settling back in the presenter’s seat on 2FM after her controversial departure earlier this year.

Dublin is a city of trees. They shape the city, give light and shade, colour some of the busiest thoroughfares and add incredible atmosphere and charm to the city.

Update: Peter Somers has been found safe and well.

The first sentence in one of the earliest and most popular self-help books, The Road Less Travelled in 1978 was a banal statement of the blindingly obvious.

1,000 trees could be felled in Shankill in Dublin to make way for Bus Connects.

Perspective is everything.

Marjorie Brennan talks to neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan who says the brain continues to be a mystery despite medical advances in the field of imaging.

Gardaí hope to know in the coming days if DNA samples taken from the getaway vehicle used in the fatal Bray gun attack can identify the gunman.

The three-year old girl who was allegedly assaulted on Saturday passed away yesterday after her life support was switched off.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question a woman about an incident which resulted in the hospitalisation of a three-year-old girl.

The deputy leader of Britain First, Jayda Fransen, has been filmed on the seat of the Lord Mayor in Belfast City Hall saying she intends to fight the charges over comments made at a rally in the city last year.

The deputy leader of far-right group Britain First has been released on bail after appearing in court in Belfast charged over comments about Islam made in a social media posting.

A garda, who is originally from China, has claimed he was subjected to “bullying and harassment and racial torment” from colleagues on 15 separate occasions.

While intensive and daily negotiations about peace were going on, the IRA planned and executed a terrible atrocity. Adams honoured the bomber, writes Fergus Finlay

Irish women are increasingly turning to ‘hairapy’ to get their heads right, discovers Deirdre Reynolds

Gardaí have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses in relation to crash that claimed the life of a six-year-old boy in south county Dublin.

A six-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a van on Friday.

An six-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a van in Co Dublin.

Thousands of Orange Order members took part in parades across Northern Ireland as part of the Twelfth of July celebrations.

A peaceful Orange Order parade past the Ardoyne flashpoint in the North is a massive step forward, a community worker has said.

Gardaí have arrested two men following the hijacking of a vehicle in south Dublin on June 15.

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Baby AJ O’Brien never saw the world but it was waiting for him with soft blue blankets and teddy bears and cuddles at the ready.

Through his grief, a father summoned his strength and made a pledge to his dead children, promising: “I will look after your mammy.”

Prayers will be held in Wicklow this afternoon for the victims of a fire at a domestic violence support facility in Dublin.

The manager of the Bray Travellers community Development group says the deaths of four people - including a mother and three young children - in a fire in Clondalkin, Dublin have devastated the Traveller community.

Gardaí suspect an electrical source, possibly involving a television, may have caused the fire at a charity housing complex in Dublin which claimed the lives of a pregnant woman and three children.

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

Presenter of TV3’s Animal A&E and soon-to-be-broadcast Dog Tales, Andrea Hayes is married to David Torpey and they have one daughter, Brooke, aged 5. 

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams says he intends to lead his party into the next general election.

A man who carried out two violent carjackings in one night has been sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Gardaí suspect that a “huge seizure” of cash — €350,000 in vacuum-packed bags — was about to be smuggled abroad to pay for a massive drugs or firearms shipment.

Gardaí have seized more than 1,000 cannabis plants and arrested a man following a search at a house in Co Dublin yesterday.

Their motto is “dare to dream”, and, despite the disappointing scoreline, the thousands of Northern Ireland supporters literally danced out of the fan zone in Belfast.

A man jailed for life for the murder of a French musician and juggler in Bray seven years ago has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed.

A six-year-old schoolgirl, who will be scarred for life after being “savagely attacked by a neighbour’s dog,” was yesterday awarded €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.