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Pageant makers Lumen Street Theatre and Show CoMotion, a new Dublin-based parade company, will this year join a host of regular contributors, including Galway theatre company Macnas, Wexford prop-making company Bui Bolg, Donegal-based Inishowen Carnival Group, which creates sculptural installations and performances and Wicklow prop company ArtFX. Numerous international marching bands are also set to travel from Scotland and the United States, including eight American bands from Ohio, Arizona, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mississippi, Indiana and Texas for the parade.

Solo travel can be intimidating, but it also gives you total freedom. You can eat where you want, linger where you want and change plans on a whim. TripAdvisor just released its 2026 Travelers Choice Awards, including Best of the Best Destinations, and, for the first time, the list includes awards for the best destinations for solo travel. The Best of the Best Awards are based on millions of reviews and ratings from October 2024 to September 2025.

Court heard sellers would be shown a "fake" bank‑transfer image to convince them that payment had been made before the vehicles were taken Two Dublin men have been accused of targeting online sellers in an organised series of thefts of motorbikes and cars "nationwide" using fake payments and simulated bank transfers. Edward Collins (21), of Collinstown Crescent and Sean Hutchinson (24), of Cooleven Green, both in Clondalkin, appeared at Dublin District Court today facing 13 and 24 charges respectively.

I've never had a sense of direction. In a family where everyone knows where they're going, I'm the one who gets lost. When my son Charlie was small, he would listen as I outlined the day's itinerary-grocery store, library, post office-then interrupt. "Mama," he'd say, "I have a better way." And he did. He was five, and already knew where he was going.

The co-owner of Kin Dee and Four Bowls Catering chats about moving to Ireland from South Africa - and why his new restaurant will be keeping it simple

With 10 days to go before Christmas, Dublin was buzzing with shoppers, party-goers and those anticipating their annual catch ups.

Tadgh O'Donovan, science teacher in Carrigaline Community School and content creator @teachwithtadgh, took a chance during the pandemic, and he hasn't looked back since

Philip Murphy is already serving a 10-year sentence for two random sex attacks on women in Dublin city centre His brother, Michael Murphy (48), was also jailed today for rape His half brother, Thomas Ryan, has waived his anonymity so Philip Murphy can be named A "most dangerous sexual predator" has been jailed for 15 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his younger brother and two young girls 30 years ago.

Mr Deely, originally from Naas in Co Kildare and living on Serpentine Avenue in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, was 22-years-old when he went missing in the early hours of December 8, 2000. He was attending a work Christmas party at the Hilton Hotel in Dublin 2 on December 7, before going to Buck Whaley's nightclub on Leeson Street, where he left between 2.30am and 3.25am on December 8.

It's a pointless delay, and we know the reason why. It's because it's a new government and they have new priorities," he said, adding that money for new roads was now being "nicked" from public transport projects. "Public transport moves real numbers, it's what serious cities do ... if we keep taking money away from these projects and delaying them, we're just going to condemn more people to slowly losing the will to live in gridlock and missing out on time with their families.

A passenger was taken to hospital following a collision between a Luas tram and a motor vehicle on Old Belgard Road, Dublin 24, on Tuesday afternoon. Dublin Fire Brigade and other emergency services attended the scene at approximately 3:50pm. A spokesperson said the passenger was conveyed to Tallaght University Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

I was sitting on my sofa on a Saturday evening when I heard of Catriona's passing, having been in an unexpectedly foul mood earlier that day.

After Guinness, and people, Ireland's greatest export is surely the Irish pub, which can be found in just about every corner of the world from Alaska to New Zealand. But nothing beats settling in for a pint in one of the best pubs in Dublin - the OG city for pub culture and the home of the most famous stout on the planet.

Capper ran from the car while throwing small bags of white powder away from him. A drug addict was "covered in cocaine" when gardai caught him fleeing from his car after a high-speed chase across the city, a court has heard. On January 3, Scott Capper (37) drove at speed across the north Dublin suburbs of Sutton, Howth and Baldoyle.

Costume is a small boutique in Dublin's city centre, usually fronted with elegant window displays of beautifully dressed mannequins. Last October, however, Marguerite O'Molloy was passing on her way for a manicure and found something startlingly different. The shop is on Castle Market, a pedestrian shopping area, O'Molloy says. It's a really lively, cool area and a regular haunt of mine; I actually met my husband in the famous Grogan's Castle Lounge pub on the opposite corner.