A Garda Chief Superintendent has accused a whistleblower of an orchestrated campaign designed to prevent his promotion and of character assassination by politicians, a tribunal has heard.

There are “large gaps” in local state services that are creating a barrier for effective community policing, an Oireachtas committee has said.

Top-ranking gardaí have been asked by an Oireachtas Committee to outline their use of private email accounts to send or receive official garda documentation.

Senior gardaí have admitted they failed civilian analysts who raised problems about the inaccurate recording of crime statistics and were also belittled by management.

Last year saw the fewest fatalities on Irish roads since records began, according to figures from the gardaí and Road Safety Authority.

Snow and ice weather warnings have been issued for most parts of the country.

Approximately 11% of drink-driving fatalities happen the morning after a night out.

Alcohol accounts for almost 40% of fatal road crashes in the run-up to Christmas, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

Bumping up the figures for the number of motorists breathalysed constitutes one level of deception. Actually falsifying that a checkpoint took place at all is of a different order completely, writes Michael Clifford

Local Authorities are being urged to introduce more 30km/h zones in towns and cities around the country.

The Policing Authority has expressed serious concern at the sharp drop in the detection by gardaí of sexual crimes and the rise this year in recorded assaults.

The problems around the false convictions of 14,700 people on fixed charge notices may be bigger than is being admitted by An Garda Síochána, writes Michael Clifford.

A motorist wrongly convicted following the fixed-charge notice scandal was imprisoned, banned from driving for five years, and forced to emigrate to find work as a result.

The Cork County Board has said it “outright condemns” the flying of the Confederate flag in support of the county’s GAA teams, writes Conall Ó Fátharta and Denis Hurley.

The Cork County Board has said it “outright condemns” the flying of the Confederate flag in support of the county’s GAA teams.

A man was being questioned by gardaí in Co Tipperary last night over the suspected hit-and-run death of a pedestrian at the weekend.

Latest: A male aged in his 40s has been arrested by Gardaí investigating a fatal collision at Glengoole, Thurles.

Just over 70 gardaí have been trained in how to use the new roadside drug testing devices, writes Joyce Fegan.

Just over 70 gardaí have been trained in how to use the new roadside drug testing devices.

A blitz on drink and drug driving will be mounted over the Easter weekend under new Garda powers.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said the phantom breath test scandal could have been caused by gardaí not thinking it was “important” to accurately record the data.

Government can breathe easy it won’t lose a second commissioner for now, writes Michael Clifford.

The wrongful conviction of drivers for penalty point offences has caused “immeasurable damage” to many of the 14,700 people affected, a leading traffic lawyer says.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan is fighting for her survival, again, writes Cormac O’Keefe.

The Garda Commissioner has told the Policing Authority that consequences arising from the breath test scandal, including possible disciplinary action, will be considered in the coming weeks.

The disturbing revelation that An Garda Síochána carried out just half of the drink-driving breath tests that the force’s records suggested it had completed between 2012 and 2016 is another body blow to what remains of the force’s tattered credibility.

There is “concrete evidence” to support the introduction of an automatic three-month disqualification for anybody caught drink driving, the Road Safety Authority has claimed.

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertilizer in the van he was driving has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment for IRA membership.

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertlizer in the van he was driving, has been found guilty of membership of the IRA.

A collision yesterday on the main Dublin-Cork route was the third fatal incident in the last three years to involve an elderly motorist driving the wrong way on motorways in Cork.

The Garda Commissioner has announced the appointments of 11 newly-promoted senior officers and the transfer of seven Garda bosses, in a major reshuffle of top brass.

The HSE has issued a warning about contaminated ‘party pills’ as a teenager fights for his life after taking what is believed to be a potent designer street drug at a party in Cork City.

The number of Muslims deemed to be a security risk and refused entry through Cork Airport has almost doubled in the past two months.

A special Garda unit set up in Cork City to tackle water protests has been scaled back as those involved in anti-metering demonstrations have been well- behaved.

Urban gangs who target vulnerable rural areas to commit hit-and-run burglaries are to be targeted under new Government surveillance measures.

The justice and data protection ministers have been asked to change data protection laws to help gardaí tackle shoplifting crime.

Officials pull out all the stops for more than 30 sick children from Mercy University Hospital.

Gardaí are planning further undercover anti-heroin operations in Cork City following Operation Emerson which led to the recent arrest of 23 street dealers.

A six-month covert Garda operation targeting heroin dealers in Cork sends out a strong message that offenders will be caught and brought before the courts, senior gardaí said last night.