Gardaí have thanked the public for their assistance.

Lorna Neary, 24, hasn't been seen since she left her home in Terenure last Wednesday afternoon.

When it started in 1962, producer Tom McGrath intended The Late Late Show to be a light entertainment, informal programme to run as a 'filler' over the summer. Gay Byrne had other ideas.

A non-swimmer has received a second national bravery award for the role he played in river rescue operations.

Gardaí in Terenure are seeking help from the public in tracing the whereabouts of missing 17-year-old Leonard Durmishi.

Rail services from Dublin to Maynooth, M3, and Sligo are due to depart and operate to schedule following signalling issues caused by lightning earlier this evening.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking help in locating a missing 17-year-old boy.

Gardaí are appealing for help to find a teenage boy missing from Dublin.

His blog is dedicated to local history and his special connection with Ballyroan Boys' School, Dublin 16.

When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

A Dublin man who touched a fellow bus passenger's shoulder with his penis claimed he had been urinating when the vehicle jerked forward and pushed him towards the woman, a court has heard.

Gardaí have appealed for information following an aggravated burglary in Dublin.

The former and founding chairperson of the Personal Injuries Board, Dorothea Dowling, and her cousin Gráinne O'Flynn, are contesting the alleged last will of their aunt Angela O'Loughlin, the High Court has heard.

Fifteen-year-old Daniel Devaney was last seen when he left his home in Terenure at around 8:30am.

With the clocks going forward, longer evenings are coming and hopefully warmer days and evenings. Given that we have already had some warmer days I’ve found myself drinking more white wine and rosé, as well as Beaujolais and lighter styles of red.

No arrests have yet been made.

THE tree is up, Santa letters are in the post and the kinder-spawn fret endlessly as to whether the man himself will pony up on their extensive list of demands, but it is only on hitting Dublin that I begin to feel the first stirrings of Christmas spirit. The town is delightfully en fete: enough lights to humble the milky way, pine forests in every window and streets packed with grimly determined shoppers.

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Cork Constitution 12 Lansdowne 32: Cork Constitution relinquished their Bateman Cup title in tame fashion at Temple Hill on Saturday when Lansdowne produced a stunning second-half display of poise and power to take the spoils for the first time in the modern era.

Fewer than 40% of eligible people have availed of the State’s free bowel screening service, it has emerged.

The Army bomb disposal squad was called to a charity shop in Dublin today after a device was found inside a bag of donated clothing.

The Army bomb disposal squad was called to a charity shop in Dublin today after a device was found inside a bag of donated clothing.

The Cork-born art historian, Patricia Curtin-Kelly, has long been fascinated by the work of Harry Clarke — the famous stained glass artist and illustrator responsible for the magnificent windows in the Honan Chapel, University College Cork.

A man and woman have appeared in court charged with possessing a wedge hammer during the course of an aggravated burglary in Dublin.

A man and woman, arrested in connection with an aggravated burglary in Terenure, are to appear in court this morning.

Crowds 10ft deep cheered as runners completed the final stretch of yesterday’s Dublin Marathon.

A 19th-century inn in Co Clare has become the latest Irish restaurant to be added to the prestigious Michelin star list.

The son of a 62-year-old man beaten to death by a man half his age has said he cannot stop thinking of him drowning in his own blood with nobody to help him, writes Natasha Reid.

The son of a man beaten to death in an apartment in Terenure in Dublin has said he often dreams of his father calling him for help.

“‘Hi guys, I’ll just have what I had yesterday’”.

A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Dublin father-of-one, charged with murdering a 62-year-old by punching him repeatedly until he admitted to a sexual assault that he believed he had committed on another man.

A jury has heard closing speeches in the trial of a Dublin man, charged with murdering a 62-year-old by punching him until he admitted to a sexual assault that the accused had been told he had committed.

A witness has told a murder trial he went for hypnosis to try to remember how a fatal assault began in his home.

Moving home with kids in tow proved stressful and, to be frank, emotional. But not at all in the ways Jonathan deBurca Butler expected. Here he shares some of that journey.

Leslie Williams reviews The Ramen Bar Okoro Bento, Dublin.

Jack McGowan used to train at night for fear of being thought mad, writes Feidhlim Kelly.

A brain injury sustained by a former League of Ireland footballer when he fell from a speeding train 30 years ago was a contributory factor in his recent death, an inquest has heard.

A former League of Ireland footballer who survived a fall from a speeding train died thirty years later, an inquest has heard. 

A woman, who was a recluse, allowed no one into her home and had died several weeks before she was found, an inquest heard.

Dublin City Council is to vote tonight on a motion calling for the banning of election posters on public property.

Ireland is a small country that drinks a relatively modest amount of wine per head of population — around 17 litres per year compared with 24 litres in the UK and 53 litres per head in France.

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