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At least eight people have died in a major fire at a halting site for Irish travellers in the south of Dublin.
2015-10-10

Dublin-based generic drugmaker, specialty drug supplier, and medical imaging agent producer Mallinckrodt Plc increases its presence in U.S. hospitals by buying privately held Ikaria Inc, a maker of a respiratory drug and its delivery system, for $2.3 billion from a group of investors led by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. The deal includes INOmax, which is the only approved product to treat hypoxic respiratory failure in infants through nitric oxide.
2015-03-5

European Union officials send a letter to U.S. attorney general Eric Holder with seven detailed questions requesting concrete explanations about the country's data snooping programs and how it affects EU citizens ahead of a meeting in Dublin this Friday.
2013-06-11

UK royal state visit to Ireland: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits Croke Park in Dublin, where British troops killed 20 people in the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920.
2011-05-18

A school in Dublin threatens to expel a student who led a protest march against education cuts outlined by the Irish government.
2010-12-10

Protesters, including TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh, gather in Dublin. Some enter Government Buildings. Protesters are struck with batons while trying to sit down.
2010-11-22

At least 25,000 students take to the streets of Dublin to protest against rising emigration, unemployment and an increase in university fees, in the largest such demonstration for a generation.
2010-11-3

Three men are arrested, two protesters are kicked and pushed downstairs and eggs are thrown during demonstrations as Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki hides under an umbrella while leaving the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.
2010-06-9

The Aviva Stadium, Ireland's new national stadium, is officially opened by Taoiseach Brian Cowen in Dublin.
2010-05-14