The Dublin Cookie Co is a mix of old traditions and an entrepreneurial approach, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

A racist remark over the Manchester suicide bombing may have led to a fatal lunchtime attack in Limerick city centre yesterday. 

Diageo has secured the go-ahead for its €25m plan to construct a new distillery at its St James’s Gate base in Dublin for its new premium blended Irish whiskey, Roe & Co.

The coffee shop is open daily from 7:30am.

Gardaí investigating a woman's murder in Waterford city have made an arrest.

The body of a 31-year-old woman was discovered in an apartment in Waterford City today.

A man in his 30s has been arrested after a robbery in Limerick on Thursday.

THE setting is Victorian Dublin, as newly promoted detective inspector, Joe Swallow investigates an outbreak of sexual assaults on women. 

The capital’s streets went into lockdown yesterday for the centenary parade, but tourists were still able to make their way to the city’s top attractions.

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

Margaret Jennings says Instagram sites on trendy clothes aren’t just for the young and beautiful hipsters, there’s also room for the original style of Ireland’s glam grannies.

I was a very mouthy kid, the youngest of five and very precocious.

Taxi-booking app Uber is to create hundreds of jobs in Limerick over the next 18 months having chosen the city as the preferred location for its first “centre of excellence” outside of the US.

Drop is tapping into the potential of the digital kitchen with its weighing scale and recipe app, writes Trish Dromey.

A Dublin man has received a six and a half year prison sentence for the one punch manslaughter of another male in the city last year.

A man accused of trying to rob a petrol station in Dublin is going to apply for High Court bail amid concerns over his safety while in prison.

A man and woman accused of trying to rob a petrol station in Dublin last night have been refused bail.

Gardaí have objected to bail for two people accused of trying to rob a petrol station in Dublin last night.

A man and a woman are due in court today in connection with an attempted raid at a petrol station in Dublin last night.

Sweet. Chocolate. Pizza.

LIMERICK

Gardaí in Dublin have issued an appeal to the public for information about a serious assault on a woman in the city last weekend.

The death has occurred of former Young Munster President and provincial official, Joe Kennedy.

Make your marcade in Dublin

A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children's Court today to dealing cocaine, cannabis and heroin as well as possessing bullets.

Gardaí in Drogheda have launched an investigation after two shots were fired at a house in the town this evening.

Gardaí are investigating an armed robbery which took place at a pub in Raheny in Dublin overnight.

Fianna Fáil have renewed the party’s calls for the establishment of a Dublin Task Force dedicated to addressing violent crime in the capital.

A post office staff member has been injured in a shooting in Dublin.

A number of Dublin city centre residents had to leave their homes overnight after the discovery of a suspicious device.

LAST TIME I visited Limerick, one of the highlights of the trip was an evening meal with friends in The French Table.

A man is being questioned tonight over a blaze at a Dublin city centre church.

OH WHAT a difference a year makes.

A judge has called on social services to investigate the welfare of a baby girl who was brought out begging on a Dublin street by her pregnant teenage mother.

FASHION stylist Celia Holman Lee yesterday spoke of her distress at losing precious jewellery on a night out.

A RETAIL incentive scheme to encourage businesses to move into vacant shops in Limerick has been given the green light by the city council.

ANTI-QUEEN protests planned by republican and anti-war groups will be allowed to go ahead, gardaí have confirmed.

A “SUFFOCATING” security operation in Dublin city centre for the visit of the British monarch has disabled potential flashpoints with republicans.

INCENTIVES are being offered to attract retailers into Limerick city centre which has suffered continuing shop closures.