She acknowledged that the disappearance of a child would not have been apparent during Covid lockdowns.

It heard evidence that there were several incidents where managers had made references to Mr O’Connor about “k******s” including customers to the store.

Cian Neville (15) spent time on a Co Roscommon farm as part of the RTÉ programme ‘Raised by the Village’.

To date the vast majority have responded to the legal notices and have agreed to cease their illegal activities.

There is strong support for a proposed tourist bed tax, with respondents to a Dublin City Council survey suggesting that revenue should be used to fund improvements in public transport, safety and the public realm.

The drugs are to be sent for analysis to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).

He is considering seeking the support of local councils to run as an Independent.

The Dublin-based airline said it carried 21.0 million passengers last month.

The case of a boy reported missing on Friday, August 29th, who has not been seen in a number of years and is presumed dead, dominates Irish front pages on Tuesday morning.

The chief executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward, has questioned if the Covid pandemic allowed the child missing in north county Dublin to “slip through the net”.

Schoolboy Brian McDermott’s remains were recovered from the River Lagan after he disappeared from Ormeau Park on Sunday, September 2nd, 1973.

Other high speeds include a motorist driving 123km/h in a 100km/h zone on the N60 at Facefield, Co. Mayo.

New accounts show that Cook Ireland returned to pre-tax profit to record pre-tax profits of €13.95 million in 2024 compared to a pre-tax loss of €5.4 million in 2023.

New figures provided by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) show that the 155 2025 Leaving Cert results have been permanently with-held because of cheating and the 155 compares to 71 results permanently withheld by the SEC at the same point in 2024.

Brian O'Connor, aged 30, with an address at Gardiner Street, Dublin 1, was charged with assault causing harm, production of a weapon and motor theft offences in connection with the incident in the early hours of Saturday.

The child is believed to be a boy who was three and a half years old when he was last seen.

Mr Kelly also expressed support for the remaining hopeful in the Fine Gael process, former party deputy leader Heather Humphreys.

Some of the productions last year included Audrey or Sorrow, a world premiere by Marina Carr; Children of the Sun, a world premiere by Hilary Fannin and Safe House, a world premiere written and directed by Enda Walsh.

So far this National Slowdown Day, members of An Garda Síochána, along with GoSafe Mobile and Static Safety Cameras, have detected a total of 268 vehicles travelling in excess of the applicable speed limit.

Valeriju Voronenko, 50, a Lithuanian national with an address at Gardiner Street in Dublin 1, was arrested at Stable Lane near Smithfield on August 8th.