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A virtual tour guide to help Dublin’s 3.8 million visitors learn about its most famous landmarks was launched.

Information on tourist attractions across the city is available through a new smartphone application by pointing a mobile device at a building or landmark.

Belfast-based car dealership Charles Hurst has bought the Audi Centre in Dublin.

Chairman of Charles Hurst, Ken Surgenor, said the company would be “investing significantly in the coming months”.

The business will operate under the Charles Hurst brand, but continue to trade as “Audi Centre Ltd”.

Founded in Belfast nearly a century ago, Charles Hurst is now the largest motor retail group in NI.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has told priests that the Vatican has rejected the resignations of his two auxiliary bishops following their reported involvement in the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse.

The Vatican’s rebuff deals a blow to Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat who was appointed in 2004 to lead Ireland’s most populous diocese through a growing storm of child-abuse scandals. From the start he has clashed with predecessors who oversaw a culture of concealment of child molestation by transferring abusive priests to new parishes in Ireland, Britain and the United States.

Over 80,000 people are expected to converge on Dublin’s RDS venue for the Dublin Horse Show which started today.

The Fáilte Ireland and Bewleys Hotels Speed Stakes took place today at the beginning of the prestigious equestrian event, which is one of the most noted moments on the Irish social calendar.

Police in Spain are understood to be looking for a British man, who lives locally, after a Dublin man was shot dead yesterday on the Costa del Sol.

John O’Neill’s family said he was an innocent man with no criminal record.

The 40-year-old father-of-two from Coolock was on holiday in Spain with his family when he was shot outside a bar in Benalmadena.

A 64-year-old Dublin resident who was reported missing on Lake Erie Saturday, July 24, was found dead Monday, July 26.

Gregory Shaw, 7685 Fishel Dr. S., Dublin, was initially reported missing at 1:43 p.m., the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office said in an information release.

The sheriff’s office said it received a 9-1-1 call from someone on a sailboat reporting Shaw in the water and that they had lost sight of him in Lake Erie about one mile north of the entrance to the Portage River.

Dublin chairman Gerry Harrington is hoping that Anthony Daly stays on as manager of the county’s hurling team, despite exiting the Championship with a surprise loss to Antrim.

Daly is considering his future in the post, having a year left of his planned three year stint with the county.

Harrington told www.hoganstand.com: ‘I have spoken with Anthony and he has asked for some time to consider his position.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Stephen Byrne in Dublin yesterday evening say his killer arrived and left the scene on a bicycle.

The 32-year-old was shot a number of times in the head and body near his home in Sheriff Street at around 4.45pm. More >

A 39-year-old man has appeared before Blanchardstown District Court charged with assaulting his wife at their home in Mulhuddart in Dublin last Monday.

Andrez Benko was charged with assaulting his wife, Joanna, and causing her harm at Ladyswell Road.

Joanna, 31, was beaten with a hammer while she slept in bed. The couple’s three-year-old son was downstairs at the time.

The trial of a Dublin man charged with the rape of a homeless woman nearly two years ago has collapsed at the Central Criminal Court.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty to raping the then 19-year-old woman at a Dublin address on 13 October 2008.

Mr Justice Paul Carney directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty as the evidence called by the prosecution supported an offence under the 1990 Criminal Law Rape Amendment Act, which deals with oral rape, anal rape and rape by the association of implements.