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‘One lifeline left’: Last-minute breakthrough needed to save The Complex arts centre
1+ hour, 52+ min ago (568+ words) Dublin arts centre The Complex is due to shut its doors for the final time on Wednesday night bar a last-minute stream of State funding coming through. Government intervention in the form of a multimillion euro capital acquisition of the…...
Irish prison conditions among the worst ‘anywhere’, chief inspector tells politicians
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (623+ words) Irish prison conditions are among the worst in Europe, according to their most senior inspector, who has spent three decades reviewing jails across the Continent. More than 600 inmates in Irish prisons are currently sleeping on mattresses, affecting a multiple of…...
Retired surgeon ordered to pay costs of High Court case over South Dublin Islamic centre
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (811+ words) A retired surgeon must pay legal costs incurred by directors of the company behind the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland after the doctor withdrew claims of corporate criminality against the men, described by a High Court judge as "of the…...
Council worker entitled to pension payment increase over compulsory overtime, court rules
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (560+ words) A road maintenance worker with a county council for 50 years is entitled to have his pension payments increased because he worked at least nine hours of compulsory overtime every week, the High Court has ruled. Reckonable back payments to now…...
File to be sent to DPP over 2024 fire at Leixlip house linked to asylum centre rumours
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (208+ words) Garda" are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions after releasing without charge a man (30s) arrested earlier today over the suspected arson of a building that was wrongly rumoured to have been earmarked for accommodating asylum seekers....
Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin says family ‘absolutely terrified’ after car theft
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (567+ words) The Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin has said he and his family were "absolutely terrified" when a group of males stole vehicles from their Cabra home over the weekend. John Stephens, a Fianna F'il councillor, said his wife and daughter…...
Share your experience as a road user in Ireland
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (133+ words) As roads become busier and congestion increases, especially in Dublin, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are facing increasing challenges. During peak commuting periods, cyclists and drivers are often competing for space on relatively narrow roads and at busy junctions. We'd like…...
Price of a pint of Guinness and 0.0 alternative set to climb by about 20 cent
8+ hour, 5+ min ago (651+ words) The price of a pint of Guinness will climb by about 20 cent within weeks after Diageo rolled out an increase that will take effect early next month. Publicans said the price increase would "pile yet more pressure on pubs already…...
A Tale of Two Hospitals – Frank McNally on the architectural dramas of Kilmainham
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (820+ words) Dublin's ever-changing skyline can take you by surprise sometimes, even when you think you're familiar with it. So it was in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham recently when, walking around the walled Italianate garden for the first time…...
Judge who called cyclists ‘a nightmare’ was fined for failing to provide breath test to garda
8+ hour, 35+ min ago (742+ words) A Circuit Court judge who this week described cyclists as having "become a nightmare" in Dublin was previously fined "600 after pleading guilty 14 years ago to failing to provide a breath specimen at the request of a garda. Judge James O'Donohoe…...