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No criminal proceedings will be brought over the balcony collapse that killed five Irish students on working holidays in the US last summer, it has been revealed. After a nine-month investigation, Nancy O’Malley, District Attorney in Alameda County, near San Francisco, California, found there was insufficient evidence for a manslaughter case.

Semi-state bosses hoping to sell off a top greyhound stadium for development claim the green space is not needed – as there is a cemetery across the road. The debt-ridden Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has hired private consultants to help lobby politicians that Harold’s Cross dog track in Dublin should be rezoned for housing.

First-time house-buyers working in Dublin are buying their homes as far away as Laois and Offaly because they are frozen out of the capital, a new survey claims. The poll suggests a new wave of house-hunters is prepared to commute for more than an hour from the city to secure affordable properties.

The President has pulled out of attending a civic dinner in Belfast to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising. Michael D Higgins was due to be guest of honour at the commemorative event in Belfast City Hall on April 8.

Cocaine valued at around half a million euro has been seized during a raid in Dublin, gardai say. The haul was uncovered during a search of a premises at Coolquay, The Ward.

President Michael D Higgins has called on people to keep building a Republic which the 1916 leaders would be proud of. At the opening of a new visitor centre in Kilmainham Gaol, the President paid tribute to the volunteers who restored the ruined prison 50 years ago.

The bodies of a man and a young boy have been discovered in a stream close to the Royal Canal in Dublin, gardai said. A passer-by came across the remains in shallow water near a railway line at an an area known as Ashington Green in Ashtown.

President Michael D Higgins has said the dream of some of the 1916 rebels has not been achieved. At a state ceremony to honour James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army, the President said the aspirations of socialists in the Rising can inspire the rebuilding of Ireland’s society and economy.

At least 14 vehicles have been involved in a major pile-up on one of the country’s busiest road junctions. The series of collisions occurred near the Dunkettle interchange just outside Cork shortly before 3pm.

People in Dublin have shown their support for the Muslim community by altering offensive graffiti. The words “All Muslims are scum” were daubed on a wall close to Croke Park in the wake of the Brussels attacks which left more than 30 people dead and hundreds more injured.