A heroin-addicted mother of six who terrified a woman with a syringe during a "prank" in a Temple Bar pub toilet has been jailed for two years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An English woman who alleges she was raped in a Dublin hotel bathroom has denied at the Central Criminal Court that she hit the accused man with a wine bottle "in jealousy" because he was paying attention to her friend.

Two world renowned Bosnian artists were refused permission by the Department of Justice to attend a major exhibition in Dublin, it emerged today.

A female taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint in the North by a passenger, it emerged today.

A young man celebrating his 21st birthday took off his t-shirt to wrap around a barman wounded during an armed robbery, it emerged today.

Gardaí are investigating the shooting of a barman at a pub in the heart of Dublin’s financial services centre late last night.

A Dublin nightclub was forced to evacuate 800 people after a canister of gas was released on the dancefloor.

IRISH Democrats have signed up hundreds of postal voters in a bid to win the US presidential election for John Kerry.

One of two men accused of murdering a Vietnamese man and assaulting a Chinese man, gave a “Kung Foo kick” to the Chinese man during an assault in Temple Bar two years ago, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

By Jim Morahan