A court has heard two men being tried for the murder of 17-year-old Daniel McAnaspie each claimed to have witnessed the other man carrying out the stabbing.

Salmon have returned to the once heavily polluted Tolka River in Dublin for the first time in 100 years.

Two men were injured in a shooting attack today as they sat in a van in west Dublin.

Gardaí tonight seized cocaine worth around €2.5m at a suspected cocaine factory in north Dublin.

A 59-year-old man was found dead in the Tolka River in Dublin four days after he admitted himself to St Vincent’s Hospital in Fairview for psychiatric assessment, an inquest heard today.

Failure to protect Dublin against storm damage could lead to a major flooding disaster in the city, a councillor claimed today.

More than 6,000 litter louts received on the spot fines from wardens in Dublin last year.

A DECISION by the Office of Public Works (OPW) not to proceed with plans to alleviate flooding on one of the busiest roads in the South East has been branded “shortsighted” by a local city councillor.

DIRE warnings that global warming will lead to devastating floods became a grim reality yesterday as homeowners and shopkeepers began mopping up damage costing millions of euro in Munster and Leinster.

THE Government has no plans in place to alleviate the consistent threat of flooding in Cork and Waterford, it emerged last night.

TWO swans met unexpectedly in a Dublin doorway yesterday, leading to one of the most unusual arrests of a garda’s career.

ELLEN COSS BROWN’S face stares out of the now slightly tattered posters placed by her family in shop windows across south Dublin.

The Government is in the process of drawing up new maps of all the country’s lower-lying areas as part of an official bid to combat flooding.

FLOOD waters are receding from Tolka Park football grounds on Dublin’s northside but for the Shelbourne club the agony goes on.

FINANCIAL aid will be made available for extreme hardship if it is decided the damage done by Thursday night’s floods is severe enough, the Government said last night.

Motorists and commuters have been advised to allow extra time for travel this morning due to flooding in the midlands and eastern areas.

Gardai in Dublin have arrested two men in connection with an armed raid on a bank in Drumcondra earlier this afternoon.