Gardaí have seized a vehicle and a quantity of illicit cigarettes in raids in three counties.

A man serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of having explosives in an adapted beer keg has challenged the refusal of the Minister for Justice to grant him enhanced remission.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is leading a major operation targeting a criminal “unknown” suspected of laundering the proceeds of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Gardaí have seized cars, phones and documents in seven searches today.

Gardaí insist there was no security incident involving the Garda Commissioner at Garda Headquarters, after reports of an alert in the Phoenix Park last month.

An 18-year-old Dublin youth charged with firearms offences following a shooting incident in which a garda was injured has been refused bail..

Twenty years after the killing of Det Jerry McCabe, the survivor of the IRA attack Det Ben O’Sullivan says he has learnt to live with it, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

Clare goalkeeper Joe Hayes has lauded the contribution of coach Mick Bohan in reviving certain lost qualities within the county’s football set-up. 

A Dublin man has settled his High Court action against the Garda Commissioner and State for damages over alleged assault and false imprisonment after the Garda Emergency Response Unit mistakenly raided his flat.

A senior Siptu official told a hearing "the Abbeylara scenario was on everyone’s minds" when trying to defuse a five hour stand-off between the Garda Emergency Response Unit and a council worker four years ago.

Justice Minster Alan Shatter has revealed that the controversial freeman of the land trusts are being monitored by the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.

A High Court judge has delivered a withering dismissal of “nonsense” claims that Charles Allen Sr made to a Georgian property signed into his mysterious trust.

Gardaí found a shotgun at the property where repossession action group leader Charlie Allen was arrested last Monday.

Kerry’s most senior Garda yesterday warned of firm action against people involved in Traveller feuds.

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Dublin, after Gardaí carried out a search of the car he was driving in the city this morning.

The son of a man who was convicted but later cleared of the 1998 Omagh bombing has today been granted bail pending an appeal against his conviction for explosives offences.

A youth accused of attacking two security men with an electronic stun gun was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial before a judge and jury.

THE school teacher who died after a freak accident in which a tree branch fell on her as she walked on a Limerick street, had only recently got married, it emerged yesterday.

A Judge has held that a youth's prosecution for using an electronic stun gun during a row is too serious to be dealt with in the Children's Court.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has demanded the Bank of Ireland explain why new security procedures, to prevent raids like yesterday’s €7 million robbery, were not adhered to.

A dissident republican accused of false imprisonment, possession of firearms and assault has had all charges against him withdrawn by the State at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Meath man has been jailed for six years for threatening to kill someone who “owed money” for drugs.

Armed officers from an elite Garda emergency squad today used a Taser weapon to stun a man found near a suspected bomb.

A man was being questioned by gardaí this afternoon in connection with a suspicious device found in south Dublin.

NEW fears emerged in the Limerick feud yesterday after reports of divisions within the McCarthy-Dundon gang over the decision by one of its leaders to order the murder of gang member James Cronin.

The Garda Commissioner is to deploy the Emergency Response Unit to Limerick in the next few days following his discussions with the Justice Minister this afternoon.

ALMOST 400 witnesses have made statements to gardaí in the case of the biggest drugs haul in Ireland, it emerged in court yesterday.

A Dublin man whose arm was broken after he was arrested by the Garda Emergency Response Unit on his return from the North where he had purchased a quantity of fireworks has been awarded €40,000 in damages by the High Court.

AN armed Garda detective who fired the shots which fatally injured two raiders in a foiled post office robbery told a court yesterday that he shot the second raider, who was unarmed, because he believed he had a gun and was in fear of his life.

The Garda Inspectorate is to examine the shooting of an armed man who barricaded himself in his home in Gort, Co Galway, for almost a day.

A tense stand off involving an armed man who barricaded himself in his home ended tonight.

A tense stand off involving an armed man who barricaded himself in his home ended tonight.

A tense stand-off was continuing tonight as gardaí opened negotiations with an armed man who barricaded himself in his home in Gort, Co Galway.

Around 50 gardaí were drafted into Gort, Co Galway today to try to end a tense siege involving an armed man who barricaded himself inside his home.

IN the wake of the apology by gardaí for the death of John Carthy, family members want an independent body to monitor a committed overhaul of garda structures.

The garda force expressed its regret at the death of John Carthy tonight and offered the sympathy of all members to his family.

THE fatal shooting of John Carthy by gardaí in Abbeylara “should never have happened”, the Barr Tribunal has found.

THE fatal shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara six years ago should never have happened.

A long-awaited report into the fatal shooting of John Carthy after an armed siege with gardaí over six years ago is to be made public today.

THE report into the fatal shooting of John Carthy by gardaí at Abbeylara six years ago will be published next month.

The Government was today criticised for a lack of information on the forthcoming report into the fatal shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara, Co Longford more than six years ago.

The long-awaited report into the fatal shooting by gardaí of John Carthy in 2000 is set to be completed next month, it emerged today.

The report into the fatal shooting by gardaí of John Carthy in 2000 is set to be published before the end of the year.

A KILLING, a garda siege, the besieged killer taking his own life — the sequence of events whose final tragic outcome was the pointless waste of two lives is a not unfamiliar drama.

THE inevitable focus on garda procedure that will follow the tragic events in Carlow will intensify later this month if, as expected, the Barr report is published.

THE release of the report into the fatal shooting by gardaí of John Carthy in 2000 is to be delayed by three months.

LAWYERS will be paid at a much reduced rate if tribunals drag on longer than dates announced yesterday by the Government.

A CRIMINAL gang left empty-handed after an attempted robbery on an ATM machine in Carlow yesterday.

TO say security was tight for today’s EU-US summit at Dromoland Castle would be an understatement.