Here's your morning bulletin.

There has been a call for investment into the fire service nationwide.

A developer's plans to build Dublin's tallest building has been turned down.

Latest: Gardaí ruled out any link to terrorist activity.

A man has been arrested after he produced what appears to have been a gun on a Dart in Dublin this afternoon.

Dublin is well positioned to cement its position as a global technology, media and telecommunications centre, but only if it can supply the right type office space demanded by the market.

A decision on the modifications proposed to part of the Brewery Quarter events centre complex in Cork’s inner city is due within weeks.

Efforts are being made to remove the last remaining occupant from Apollo House in Dublin city centre, the High Court has heard.

"Come along. Sing a song!"

Homeless people being illegally sheltered in the Nama-owned Apollo House building should be allowed to stay there until after Christmas instead of facing trespassing notices, a Government minister has said.

THE 19th century American philosopher Henry David Thoreau was not thinking about Ireland when he penned his famous essay on civil disobedience. 

A leading social justice activist has said he will not be lending his support to the occupation of a Dublin office block for homeless accommodation.

The Housing Minister Simon Coveney has said the Apollo House sit-in is not the way to tackle Dublin's homeless crisis.

Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin TD has urged the public to sign the campaigning group Uplift’s petition to support the Home Sweet Home campaign.

The Phoenix Park Tunnel line is now open to commuters for the first time in more than a century, connecting stations between Kildare and Dublin.

Since 1898, Dublin Fire Brigade ran the ambulance service and the emergence of the log book of the brigade’s headquarters in Tara Street from 1916 bears witness to the efforts to deal with the battle waging on the streets and the people affected, writes Las Fallon

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

The Department of Health may move to the nearly refurbished former Bank of Ireland Headquarters on Baggot Street.

A number of units of the Dublin Fire Brigade have been battling a blaze on the southside of the city.

The renovation of a 138-year-old railway tunnel under the Phoenix Park will allow commuters from Kildare travel directly into the heart of the Dublin by early next year.

A motorcycle caught fire during rush hour outside Pearse Street Garda Station in Dublin.

Cars will be banned from key streets in Dublin City centre in a radical transport plan to make the capital more cycle and pedestrian friendly.

A reported fire at Dublin's famous St Patrick's Cathedral was a false alarm, it is understood.

Investigations are underway after a manhole cover blew in Dublin City centre this morning.

A protest will take place later over plans to remove ambulance services from Dublin Fire Brigade.

ELSKE Rahill is perturbed. She’s brooding about the first review of her debut novel. It was glowing, and said the 31-year-old was “an intriguing and definitive voice of a new generation of Irish writers.” But Rahill is hard on herself.

Elaine Edwards posted this delightful photo yesterday on Twitter.

Irish Rail has said it will fully investigate an incident at a DART station in which a Dublin woman lost her leg.

In Dublin, DART services are still suspended between Clontarf Road and Tara Street.

A woman has been arrested over an attack in Dublin city centre in which another woman had part of her nose bitten off.

A Brazilian man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing his flatmate more than 40 times after an argument over her relationships with other men has failed in an appeal against his conviction.

DUBLIN’S local authorities have invoked a major emergency plan after storms battering Leinster led to the evacuation of entire estates and saw a search and rescue operation for an off-duty garda swept away after a river burst its banks.

KEVIN O’SULLIVAN has been named as the editor of The Irish Times, succeeding Geraldine Kennedy.

Dublin's Connolly Station has been closed due to a security alert.

Train services in Dublin are facing disruption today as work takes place to improve the tracks in the city centre.

Transport chiefs hit out today at Dublin City Council’s plan to expand 30kph speed limits.

Hundreds of north Dublin commuters will continue travelling by bus instead of train despite the Malahide viaduct reopening tomorrow, it was claimed today.

A 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of a Brazilian woman in Co. Offaly last Thursday.

Gardaí in Tullamore are to resume questioning a man arrested in connection with the death of a Brazilian woman in the town earlier this week.

A 33-year-old woman who was killed in Co. Offaly during the week died from multiple stab wounds according to the post mortem results.