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The report from the council’s parking appeals officer says the €80 charge has not been increased since it was introduced in 1998. Appeals officer William Keilthy says this means that the charge has decreased by 25% in real terms, despite the fact that the cost of petrol has doubled during the period.

He states that based on the €7 million cost of the enforcement service, the clamp release fee should be a minimum of €130.

A Dublin man has been given a life sentence for murder and his two co-accused have been jailed for manslaughter of a 27-year-old ‘model worker’ they killed on his way to work. More >

Dublin has called on its prosecuting authorities to speed up the criminal investigation into Ireland’s banking crash and pledged to hold a public inquiry to establish who was responsible.

The decision comes amid growing frustration in Dublin that a three-year criminal investigation into the country’s banking collapse has so far failed to produce charges against anyone. There has also not been any public inquiry into events that ultimately led to the country’s bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in November 2010.

Officials announced Friday that a man suspected in a rash of break-ins was captured. Police said that Robert Mason was in possession of, among other things, a vehicle that was reported stolen on Feb 28. When they apprehended him on Sunday.

Mason, 20, was suspected in a rash of break-ins in the Shannon Park and Hemingway Village neighborhoods. Police found Mason in possession of items stolen from Westerville and Columbus neighborhoods as well.

The Dublin bin row rages on as residents were left in the dark as to whether their bins will be collected next week as uncertainty grows over the privatised Greyhound service. Bins were collected yesterday from those homes who had not signed up to the service, despite being told that Thursday was the deadline for sign-ups.

During a heated debate in the Dail yesterday, Fianna Fail deputy leader Eamon O Cuiv warned that the city would become a “cesspool” of waste if the incident was not dealt with.

The story of the Troubles can be seen as a growing understanding between the Irish and British states whose latest fruit was the Queen’s visit to the Republic. In that time Britain moved, in the Irish psyche, from an ancient enemy still to be treated with suspicion to a neighbour with shared interests.

By 1989, when Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan were murdered at Jonesboro, the process was fairly advanced.

Today Dublin formally launched as European City of Science for 2012. In July, the city will host the Euroscience Open Forum, attracting scientists from all over the globe. Ireland’s rich scientific landscape will also be opened up to the public as interactive events will be happening all over the island during the year. More >

An Upper Dublin man’s alleged stalking of a Springfield woman ended with a “creepy” and “disturbing” crime – the theft of the woman’s underwear during a break-in at her home, according to prosecutors.

The man with the alleged penchant for panties, Kornwell H. Chan, 37, of the 1900 block of Audubon Drive, was arraigned Thursday before District Court Judge Katherine McGill on charges of stalking, burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, harassment and criminal mischief in connection with alleged incidents that occurred between November 2011 and January.