Two Dublin schools have shut with immediate effect after problems were discovered during structural checks being carried out at 30 schools built by Western Building Systems.

"The assault last a few seconds but impacted on me for the rest of my life to come."

The Government has launched a second investigation into serious fire safety concerns in Celtic Tiger-era schools amid growing fears that the scale of the crisis has been deliberately “suppressed”.

The Government is receiving legal advice on what action to take over revelations six Celtic Tiger-era schools have been found to have serious fire safety fears.

The Department of Education has launched an immediate review of Celtic Tiger-era schools’ fire safety standards amid fears over the protections they would offer during a blaze.

A motorcyclist who died after an accident on the M50 had been been drinking homemade wine before the crash, an inquest heard. 

The owners of apartments at The Strand in Limerick have withdrawn notices to quit that were issued to existing tenants after an agreed sale to a vulture capital fund.

Focus Ireland has urged the Government to implement legislation to protect vulnerable homeowners and tenants from vulture funds, warning that thousands of people could be at risk of being removed from their homes.

Gardaí are investigating the alleged false imprisonment of a 19-year-old woman in Dublin.

Evictions in the Dublin suburb of Tyrrelstown are poised to spread throughout the country, a Dáil watchdog has been warned.

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A young man who was mistaken for a gang member and stabbed to death in a field had a “heart of gold and a bright future”, his mother told a sentencing hearing for his killer at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

A young man who was mistaken for a gang member and stabbed to death in a field had a "heart of gold and a bright future", his mother told a sentencing hearing for his killer at the Central Criminal Court today.

From news reports it appears that many of the Tyrrelstown tenant victims of the Beltany ‘vampire squid’ are immigrants. Peter Sutherland was for many years the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, of which Beltany is a subsidiary.

Enda Kenny has promised to appoint a new Cabinet-level minister for housing if Fine Gael enter government.

Politicians eager to get their teeth stuck into debates about changing society as well as ways to restore cash-starved services have tabled several motions for the new Dáil.

Two Sinn Féin Senators have demanded a recall of the Seanad in an effort to halt the eviction of Tyrrelstown residents.

The selling-on of debts is a fact of life when boom meets bust but there should have been robust protection standards in place to safeguard borrowers and tenants, writes Paul Joyce.

Opposition TDs have urged tenants facing possible eviction from a residential development in Cork City to stay put and resist moves to kick them out.

Opposition politicians have urged the Government to intervene to protect more than 100 families set to lose their homes to an investment vulture fund, after the firm behind the controversial move said it has done nothing wrong and will not back down on the issue.

Latest: Sinn Féin councillor Paul Donnelly has tonight hosted a meeting with the residents of Cruise Park in Tyrrelstown.

An historic home on Cork’s northside is in line to become a medical clinic after a recent grant of planning permission.

Two children lost their lives in separate drowning tragedies in Dublin and Cavan in the space of just a few hours yesterday.

Residents of a housing estate in Dublin are holding a day-long street protest over summonses to court for estate management fees.

The jury has been discharged in the trial of a 21-year-old accused of murdering a man in north Dublin three years ago after failing to reach a verdict.

Gardaí in Dublin have said that a missing teenager has been located safe and well.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for the public's help in two separate cases of missing teenagers.

It’s been a week of contrasting fortunes for Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan.

A judge has directed the acquittal of a Dublin man charged with murdering 15-year-old Toyosi Shittabey following a row with racial undertones.

A man accused of murdering a Nigerian teen in what has been described as a row with racial undertones told gardai he did not see his brother carrying a knife when they went after the group of teens to try and retrieve his mobile phone.

A number of black males, claiming to be friends of a 15-year-old Nigerian boy who was stabbed on Good Friday two years ago, were in a “highly agitated and aggressive state” when gardai arrived at the scene, a Central Court jury has heard.

A 15-year-old Nigerian boy died from 13 centimetre deep single stab wound through the heart on Good Friday two years ago, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard today.

The Central Criminal Court has heard how a 15 year-old Nigerian boy was stabbed in the heart following a row in West Dublin with 'racist undertones'.

Sacked haulage workers at tax debt-ridden company Target Express claim they have been told that a €154,000 pot to pay unpaid wages has been frozen by the Revenue Commissioners.

There have been dramatic scenes in court today at the conviction of a 40-year-old Dublin man for the murder of Adel Essalhi.

The jury is out in the trial of a 40-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a man who was struck almost 60 times in the head, neck and arms with a machete-type weapon and a knife.

The jury in the Central Criminal Court trial of a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi have been urged to consider the evidence of a number of “silent witnesses” in the case.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi said he had burned the deceased man’s body and told her there was “nothing like the smell of a dead body”.

A witness has told the Central Criminal Court that a Dublin man accused of the murder of Adel Essalhi bragged about the killing and claimed “not even people walking their dogs” would find the body.

A jury has heard that Dublin man Adel Essalhi died after a violent assault during which he was struck almost 60 times in the head, neck and arms with a machete-type weapon and a knife.

A Dublin man directed gardaí to the location of a buried blood-stained sweatshirt which contains DNA matching that of the man he is accused of murdering, a jury has heard.