The Peter McVerry Trust is announcing the first phase of a series of social housing projects for Dublin.

Police officers in the North have been targeted in an explosive attack.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after what Gardaí are calling "a serious assault" in Co. Offaly this morning.

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

A man alleged to have played a central part in the shooting dead of a man at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin is to fight extradition from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.

Pensioners in their eighties were forced to leave their homes in the middle of the night after a mortar-type device was left in a nearby graveyard in Northern Ireland.

Those who fought in the Easter Rising are being remembered in Dublin this afternoon.

Two men who shared pornographic images of children as young as 10 with each other have been jailed for two years each.

Two Dublin men caught sending child porn to each other from their mobile phones have been jailed for a total of five years.

A man who had pornographic images of children as young as10 on his phone was forced to leave his home because of media reports of these offences, a court has heard.

Damages totalling €4.7m have been awarded to two Dublin women who were repeatedly raped by an older member of their choir in the early 1970s.

IRELAND of the 1930s is often viewed as being chaste and straitlaced, with old Pathe newsreel images of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress dominating perceptions of the era.

A WEST CORK town was under three feet of water yesterday morning, for the second time in seven weeks.

SEVERAL hundred households were without power last night after the ESB was forced to cut off power because of safety concerns.

A new €25m flagship sports and leisure centre was today unveiled in Dublin.

TWO gunmen robbed a bank, crashed the getaway car and hijacked another during a terrifying raid yesterday.

A 17-year-old boy appeared in court today for leading gardaí on a half-hour high speed pursuit where at one point he allegedly drove the wrong way through the Dublin Port Tunnel.

A 17-year-old boy who assaulted two Spanish students, who were punched, kicked and dragged along the ground during an unprovoked attack, was today put on probation for nine months and spared a custodial sentence.

A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court of assaulting two Spanish students, who were punched kicked and dragged along the ground during an unprovoked attack.

THE body of teenager Derek Cumiskey, who died after an assault in Lanzarote, is expected to be flown back to Dublin today.

THE body of teenager Derek Cumiskey is unlikely to be returned to his family for up to two weeks.

THE Dublin teenager beaten to death in Lanzarote was an award-winning student who had recently finished his school exams.

ON the RTÉ television programme, Urban Tales, a few weeks ago, presenter Robert Vance made a connection between the German aerial bombing of Belfast and later Dublin in 1941.

Two women had to be cut from their car in Dublin city centre yesterday after it was hit by a stolen vehicle being chased by gardaí.

FOUR ambulance controllers are facing a bleak Christmas after health service bosses cut off their sick pay.

Four ambulance controllers are facing a bleak Christmas after health service bosses cut off their sick pay.

The second phase of a multi-million pound facelift for Belfast was launched today.

Building society EBS has sold its five storey headquarters at Westmoreland Street in Dublin 2 for over E12m, but hasn’t yet got a buyer for its block on Townsend Street.