Customers of Dublin Bus who are already facing service cuts are now going to be asked to pay more. Cash fares for adults are to increase from this Sunday after the National Transport Authority (NTA) approved the changes. It follows recent increases in pre-paid tickets, which Dublin Bus have full control over. Cash fares will [...]
New York City’s Department of Transportation has made some dramatic changes to some of its streets in the last few years. One of the most iconic is that somewhere close to half of the traffic lanes on Times Square were given back for people to use and enjoy: The streets became easer to cross. Tables and chairs [...]
A city councillor who has put up modified election posters is not breaking the rules, according to Dublin City Council. The election posters for Cllr Aine Clancy (Labour) – who is running in heavily contested Dublin Central constituency in the forthcoming general election – have been modified and now include details of a public meeting [...]
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said yesterday that his party will not be going around to every cross roads and promise a railway station or hospital. He was responding to a question from Newstalk presenter Ivan Yates on the proposed Metro North light railway between Dublin and Swords. Gilmore said: “This is a very different election. [...]
Gardai tonight are seeking help in tracing the next of kin for Miss Rita Keppell who died of natural causes. Miss Keppell was born on January 28, 1932, and died in the Mater Hospital on January 7, 2011, after a short illness. “Miss Keppell lived at Church Road, East Wall, Dublin 3, and had resided [...]
Socialist MEP Joe Higgins has rounded on builders and developers following a tour of damaged apartments in west Dublin this week. Accompanied by a chartered engineer, Higgins visited housing blocks in Ongar where he witnessed dozens of flats flooded by thawing snow leaking from overhead balconies. Higgins said he was “amazed” at what he what [...]
Three leading Dublin scientists are to be awarded funding of up to €10.5 million as part of the latest round of EU research grants. Professors Kenneth Wolfe and Luke O’Neill from Trinity College, and Professor James Heckman from UCD, will get grants worth €3.5 million each to advance their pioneering projects in health and food [...]
Dublin Gardai have arrested two men, and seized drugs in Clonsilla and Newlands Cross. Two men in their 30s were arrested after officers stopped two cars close to Newlands Cross yesterday afternoon. What was described as a large quantity of cannabis herb, subject to analysis, was seized. Further drugs – including cannabis herb, cannabis resin [...]
A man found stabbed and beaten to death in Dublin has been named and two arrests were made in connection to the murder. Gardai named the man as 31-year-old Adil Essalhi who had an address in Drumcondra, Dublin 9. Blanchardstown Gardai last night also renewed an appeal for information from the public last night. The [...]
UPDATE: Newer details on this story can be found here. Blanchardstown Gardai say they are “examining all the circumstances” after the body of a male was discovered in a field. An investigation has been launched and the State Pathologist is due to visit the site in the morning. The field is close to Bellgree Avenue, [...]
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