The new plan will see a new east-west pedestrian street between O'Connell Street and Moore Street, two new civic squares, shops, offices, apartments, a hotel and a metro station.

A teenage boy, whose involvement with alcohol first caused concerns when he was aged seven, has been given a five-month sentence over an assault and a mugging in Dublin city-centre.

A woman has been seriously injured in a crash in Limerick city today.

GARDAÍ were given an anonymous letter stating that the Continuity IRA was going to target last Saturday's Love Ulster rally in Dublin, according to the garda report into the riots.