Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has pledged that his councillors will root out corruption if elected and also claimed that a newspaper group is running a campaign against him and his party.

A quarter of the estimated number of householders with waste water systems are still refusing to pay septic tank charges.

A Fine Gael councillor who lost the party whip over accepting a political donation has claimed she was used as a “scapegoat” by the party.

FINANCE

David Norris is now just three short of the 20 names required to allow him enter the presidential race.

THE property developer who has offered to build Ireland’s children’s hospital on a non-profit basis has called for a reassessment of the decision to build the much-needed facility at the controversial Mater site in Dublin.

HOMEOWNERS have been told they should share the burden of a new €450 million residential water tax to be fully operational by 2014.

FORTY years after man went to the moon, the galacticos landed in Tallaght. One small stepover for Ronaldo, perhaps, but a giant leap for South Dublin County.

FIANNA FÁIL just isn’t quite the brand it used to be.

CORK County Council has failed in its bid to dodge a €380,000 rates bill from its neighbour, the city council, after an argument questioning the essence of the Irish State.

Recycling centres are reopened today in Dublin and Cork and householders are being asked to recycle what's left over after the Christmas celebrations.

Giant, blood-sucking and apparently indestructible bedbugs are plaguing a family in Dublin.