You don’t have to spend Valentine’s in a restaurant paying a fortune for food when you could be having real fun with another activity, writes Paula Burns.

Boom time is back with two of the capital’s best-known hotels reporting a sharp increase in profits for last year.

Dublin City Council has given an emphatic no to two separate hotel developers seeking to build tall hotels near Dublin Castle.

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Dublin’s Luas light rail system made a profit a full year ahead of schedule, making it the only transport network in the country not in need of Government subsidies, it was revealed today.