A High Court challenge against Dublin City Council's plans to turn a former guest house into accommodation for homeless families has been struck out.

Residents in Clontarf are planning to take legal action against Dublin City Council over plans to create a homeless hub in their area.

A young man has been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies across the Clontarf area in north Dublin yesterday.

A "callous" 22-year-old man murdered his partner's two-year-old boy by "kicking or punching" him in the stomach while the child's mother had gone to the shops, a UK court has heard.

Tankers are in place in parts of Dublin today as water disruption in the northside of the capital continues.