A man was remanded in custody today after he was charged with robbery of €3,000 from a post office in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested a man in his early 30s in connection with the robbery of a post office in Rathmines this afternoon.

RADIO and TV presenter Baz Ashmawy has been fined €350 and banned from driving for two years and a day after pleading guilty to drink driving.

A man who drove a stolen taxi directly at a Garda checkpoint and later swerved towards a patrol van after gardaí ran to avoid being hit has been sentenced to six years for this and other offences.

Campaigners opposed to the closure of a top Dublin cancer hospital will today take their protest onto the streets of the capital.

THERE has been a sharp rise in the number of hoax bomb incidents this year.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating two separate bomb hoaxes in the south of the city overnight.

An early morning raid at a Dublin post office was a well-planned operation mounted by a professional criminal gang, gardaí said tonight.

Two raiders have escaped with around €200,000 in cash after they held up a post office in the Rathmines area of Dublin this morning.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating a robbery at a post office in the Rathmines area of the city this morning.