Dublin News

A three-day New Year’s festival gets underway in Dublin today.

Over the coming days South William Street will play host to live performances and Dame Lane is being laid out with food stalls.

The main event – an outdoor concert featuring Paul Brady, the Coronas and Riverdance – takes place on College Green tomorrow night.

Dublin will be on the torch relay route for next year’s London Olympics with the Irish capital hosting the flame on June 6, the International Olympic Committee IOC.L and organisers LOCOG said on Thursday.

“It’s going to be a one-day event,” Gilbert Felli, Executive Director of the Olympic Games, told reporters.

A journalist and a Dublin based-detective were in the firing line for a gangland hit. That’s the claim as gardai investigate reports that a member of the city’s shady underworld ordered the deaths of three people.

It’s understood threats were made to well known news reporter Mick McCaffrey after an article in the Sunday World, which prompted him to leave his home for a time… a senior detective was also targetted.. and a third person is understood to have been a witness in a trial.

The Ohio University Board of Trustees today approved a resolution authorizing the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine to negotiate a final purchase contract for a three-building office campus at 7001-7003 Post Road in Dublin. More >

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has stated today that there will be no increase in charges at the facility in 2012.

“Our pricing will be flat next year, which is good news for passengers and for airlines,” said DAA’s director of strategy, Vincent Harrison.

Many of the country’s best-known GAA stars swapped their county colours for dinner jackets and black ties to be feted at the annual All Star awards at the Convention Centre in Dublin.

Like a night at the Oscars, players such as Alan Brogan, Henry Shefflin and Bryan Sheehan arrived with their partners, who were glammed up in glittering gowns for the sports star-studded event. More >

A fresh call for Ireland to ramp up its austerity drive heaped pressure on Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s coalition government on Friday as he brokered negotiations for his administration’s first budget under an EU-IMF bailout.

Fissures have emerged in Kenny’s cabinet over whether Dublin needs to make adjustments above 3.6 billion euros ($4.9 billion) next year to get the deficit, currently the worst in the industrialised world, down to 8.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from an estimated 10 percent this year.

Around 40,000 homes and businesses in north Dublin face water restrictions this weekend because of emergency works on the supply network.

Areas affected will include Swords, Santry, Coolock, Artane, Belmayne, Kilbarrack and Howth.

Work to repair a serious leak at the intersection of three large watermains will begin 6am on Saturday and is scheduled to finish at midnight on Sunday.

ANTHONY DALY is “99.9%” certain he will be in charge of the Dublin senior hurling team in 2012.

Daly was quizzed on his intentions at a Vodafone function in Dublin yesterday and revealed he is almost certainto take up the option of the second year of a two-year term with the National League champions.

He said last night: “There are a couple of little things to be cleared up with the backroom staff. I’m waiting for those things to be confirmed. Hopefully, all will be in place over the next two or three weeks and we’ll drive on from there. There are couple of i’s to be dotted and t’s to be crossed but we’re committed to giving it a rattle again.”

Salma Khan to stay with her son for a month and tend to him as he recovers from surgery, while shooting for Ek Tha Tiger

Salman Khan is back in action after surgery. Khan resumed shooting for Yash Raj Films’s Ek Tha Tiger about 15 days ago in Dublin after a successful operation for his painful nerve condition, trigeminal neuralgia, on August 31. More >