An investigation has been launched after a 22-year-old referee was assaulted by an adult at an U15s Dublin schoolboys football match at the weekend.

Anti-water charge demonstrators prevented two ministers from leaving a school as protest against the levy continued.

One of the organisers of yesterday's protest against water charges in south west Dublin said the event passed off peacefully and was in no way anarchic.

A Senator has accused what she describes as "menacing" water demonstrators, of undermining legitimate protests.

Tánaiste Joan Burton's car has been blocked by protesters in south west Dublin this afternoon.

Gardaí busted a major cocaine factory as part of a nationwide sting involving 419 planned searches and 89 arrests for a range of crimes.

Gardaí are searching for two masked men who raided a Bank of Ireland branch in Newlands Cross, south west Dublin this morning.

A SECRET operation by the Garda anti-gang unit has prevented a likely bomb attack.

Gardaí are to object to bail being granted to a youth accused of the murder of Dublin teenager David Byrne, who died following a stabbing in March.

A youth accused of the murder of teenager David Byrne, who died following a stabbing in Dublin last month, was remanded in custody today for a further four weeks.

CUSTOMS and gardaí have made the biggest haul of cannabis resin in more than a year-and-a-half.

THE Garda’s top gangland squad will examine the phone records and bank accounts of a garda caught with hundreds of euro worth of cocaine.

GARDAÍ expect to have formal identification of skeletal remains found in a wooded area of Co Wicklow in the coming days.

A MAN accused of murdering a woman whose body was found in the boot of a car told gardaí it was an “accident” when he was charged.

A man in his 20s has been arrested after gardai seized nearly 40kg of cannabis resin in south west Dublin.

The importance of academic qualifications for job hunters was challenged today in a new report.

ONE man received serious injuries and another had a lucky escape in two separate shootings overnight on Monday.

KATHLEEN KENNY hopes this is the end of the feud.

Two men were arrested in the Crumlin area of south west Dublin today in connection with the shooting of a Garda sergeant.

COMMUNITIES blighted by suicide are not getting the resources they need because there are no official records of local suicide rates, the Samaritans said yesterday.

People in some communities don’t feel safe in their homes or walking the streets, it was claimed today.

GARDAÍ were bracing for revenge attacks last night after a bloody feud claimed two more lives.

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A HAUL of heroin seized in Dublin yesterday was destined for the Limerick market, gardaí suspect.

Colon cancer kills 1,800 people in Ireland every year.

As Taoiseach Bertie Ahern comes under increasing pressure to try and push through the Nice Treaty, his own party members are breaking rank and criticising the Government.