Serious riots occurred last night in Dublin as a result of a knife attack that in the afternoon attacked three children of several years coming out of school. A police car and two city buses were set on fire during the riots, and there are also incidents of shoplifting and clashes between demonstrators and police. Irish police described the riots as the most serious in many years.more

Property prices continued to rise nationally in September, but the slow-down continues in Dublin. more

HIV has increased among women and people identifying as transgender in Ireland, it emerged today. There was an increase of 107pc in diagnoses of HIV in heterosexual females in 2022 when compared with 2019.more

Yesterday evening the bridge named after Samuel Beckett in Dublin was illuminated with the colors of the Polish flag. This is how the authorities of the Irish capital celebrated the National Independence Day celebrated by Poles on that day.more

33-year-old Slovak citizen Jozef Puska was found guilty of the highly publicized murder in Ireland of 23-year-old teacher Ashling Murphy. The mandatory penalty in this case is life imprisonment.more

Pharmacists will have the power to extend prescriptions for up to a year from next March in a move which would cut down on patient costs and GP visits.more

The inquest into the death of a 35-year-old man, who was murdered in front of his wife and two children at their home at Ballincollig in Co Cork over five years ago, has been told that significant progress has been made in the case, and it is anticipated a file will be submitted to the DPP in the near future.more

Seizures of fake medication claiming to contain semaglutide, also found in Ozempic and Wegovy, have shot up in Ireland from 32 units last year to 254 so far this year. more

Hospital campaigner Marie McMahon has warned that people in the midwest are terrified of having to go to the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick (UHL). more

Women earned almost €3 per hour or 9.6pc less than men on average in 2022, the Central Statistics Office has found. more

Grocery price inflation has declined again but prices are continuing to rise for consumers. A survey of over 30,000 products in Irish supermarkets by research group Kantar revealed that shoppers paid 10.5pc more for these goods in the 12 weeks to October 1 compared with the same period in 2022.more

Takeaway pizza giant Domino’s is launching a recruitment drive to hire 600 roles across its business ahead of the busy festive season. more

Polish citizens voting in the Polish Sejm elections in Ireland cast the most votes for the Civic Coalition, followed by the New Left and Law and Justice, according to results released Monday night into Tuesday by the National Election Commission.more

Swedish interiors giant Ikea is to pay its Irish workers a €14.80 per hour ‘living wage’ from January and offer more flexible hours for exams or other life events. more

Centra has launched a new delivery service across five of its Dublin stores. The trial service, which will be known as ‘Centra Go’, will offer delivery for around 1,000 products, including grocery and household items.more

An Irish business owner has admitted he is concerned that wage inflation could hit his growth and expansion plans over the coming years. Velo Coffee founder, Rob Horgan, said that while he welcomed many of the measures announced in the Budget to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, he was very worried about the potential impact of wage inflation on small and medium-sized Irish businesses over the comore

A new living wage of €14.80 an hour will be announced today. This is the minimum rate required for a full-time worker without dependents to afford goods and services. Cost-of-living pressures have led to an increase of 95c or almost 7pc on last year’s rate of €13.85 an hour.more

Ireland is one of 10 EU countries to see the average price of farm products drop in the last year, a hint that food prices are set to come down even more in future. Irish prices fell by 8.5pc between March and June this year, compared with the same period in 2022. more

A good job in the civil service is more appealing to Irish people as tech roles fall out of favour and workers seek more security. more

A cargo of 2,253 kg of cocaine with a market value of EUR 157 million was seized by the Irish army during the landing of a Panama-flagged ship on Tuesday. Police said yesterday that it was the largest drug seizure in Irish history.more

Tesco’s Irish arm made a €120.3m operating profit in its last financial year, according to accounts filed here for the first time ever by the division. more

A new report by online bank Revolut shows that consumers on the Green Island "spend more, but remain cautious and are far from being extravagant." It was added that there are many indications that the domestic trade is "experiencing a boom" and can count on significant profits again.more

Employers have called for budget supports for firms that would struggle with a proposed €1.40-an-hour hike in the national minimum wage. The Low Pay Commission has recommended a 12pc increase in the €11.30 hourly rate that would push it up to €12.70.more

A devastated community came together on Thursday night to attend a candlelight vigil, organised to remember the life of Emili Roman, the young girl who died in a swimming tragedy at a Cork beach earlier this week.more

While the timeline for completing the Metrolink seems to stretch endlessly into the future, delivery plans for the project are set to come into focus, finally. Two weeks ago, a group of consultants led by Dublin-based Turner & Townsend was appointed to oversee the delivery of Ireland’s first metro railway.more