The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by the trustees of a non-denominational church — the Victory Christian Fellowship against a High Court ruling that Bank of Scotland was entitled to appoint a joint receiver over three of its properties.

Whether it’s a unicycle, BMX or just an ordinary model, there are lots of events planned for cyclists this week, Áilín Quinlan reports.

To mark the fact that Giro d’Italia's race leader wears an iconic Pink Jersey, spectators in Ireland are being urged to wear pink at the race's inaugural visit.

THERE is a great lusting for a moral economy.

A man was arrested last night by gardaí investigating the death of a man who had been beaten and set alight inside a sleeping bag in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

Three people have been hospitalised following a fire on Westland Row in Dublin this morning.

Three trustees of a Christian church have given solemn undertakings to the High Court not to obstruct bank-appointed receivers from taking possession of three of their properties in Dublin.

Over 25,000 people attended a rally organised by Pro-Life campaigners in central Dublin today, according to official Garda estimates.

An 82-year-old paedophile and former garda was jailed yesterday as a judge said prison would give him time to reflect on his awful sexual abuse of four boys 50 years ago, two of whom suffered from polio.

To mark Dublin Fashion Festival, five resident movers and shakers tell Deirdre Reynolds what gives the city its edge.

It’s what Cobh might have looked like 150 years ago.

-1954: Tony Walsh is born.

I WAS astonished to read that Dublin City Council is to proceed with the Poolbeg incinerator. The “put or pay” clause in the contract locks us into incineration for the foreseeable future and will prevent cleaner technologies becoming viable.

The Archbishop of Dublin has called on the Irish public to support and encourage the "good priests" that are in the religious orders.

IT MIGHT be stretching it just a little to suggest that the crowd of protesters — estimates vary between 12,000 and 15,000 — who protested outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday laid siege to our parliament.

Thousands of pensioners are expected to take to the streets of Dublin today to protest over new Budget reforms to means test the over-70s for a medical card.

A man serving a three-year sentence for attempting to rob a woman at an ATM machine has been given a consecutive four-year sentence for an almost identical series of robberies at ATMs in DART stations.

A state-of-the-art sports centre part funded by American billionaire Chuck Feeney was officially opened today at Trinity College Dublin.

A section of Pearse Street in Dublin was closed this afternoon after strong winds caused part of a building to fall away.

A 16-year-old schoolboy, who was in a stolen car that rammed gardaí and nearly mowed down pedestrians when it raced around Dublin city centre’s south-side, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A man who had travelled from Westmeath to enrol on a course has been given a four-year sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting two Chinese shop workers during the 'Love Ulster' riot last year.

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.

This year's Dublin Marathon is underway with more than ten thousand runners taking part.

A HOMELESS man died days after he was set alight on a Dublin Street, an inquest heard tonight.

A homeless man died days after he was set alight on a Dublin Street, an inquest heard tonight.

Police in the North have arrested five people, including a leader of the Ulster Defence Association, during an operation against loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast today.

A teenage girl abandoned her baby at a DART station in an attempt to escape from a garda who wanted to question her for a shoplifting offence, the Dublin Children’s Court heard today.

The whole country remembers the girls who appeared on news bullitins in floods of tears at the news that Bryan McFadden was to leave Westlife.

People around the globe will be able to enjoy a traditional Irish Christmas service in their own home for the first time this year.

WHILE walking down Westland Row in Dublin the other day I noticed ‘ÓSF’ (Ogra Sinn Féin) spray-painted on the footpath four times, and ‘ÓSF Revolt’ on the wall.

STUDENTS, politicians, trade union officials and anti-racism campaigners last night gathered outside the Dáil to support the case of a hospitalised asylum seeker and her five children.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has said he will not intervene to prevent a single mother in hospital and her five children from being deported to Nigeria.

Rail services to Drogheda, Maynooth and Rosslare have been disrupted after a crane hit a railway bridge in Dublin this morning.

Ten people have been taken to hospital after a double-decker bus collided with a low bridge at Sandwich St, near Westland Row, in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

Ambulances are arriving at the scene of an accident at Sandwich Street, near Dublin's Westland Row after a double-decker bus drove under a low bridge.