A man was shot during a “merciless” attack in a house with four children inside, police said.

Gardaí in Clare have arrested a total of five people in connection with an overnight robbery in Co Clare during which a substantial number of mobile phones was taken.

The living room of the property in the Lodge Road area was set alight after the attack in the early hours of Monday.

The trial of a couple accused of the female genital mutilation (FGM) of their daughter has heard the accused man told gardaí that he was fighting FGM and doing everything he could to save girls.

Seven people have been arrested by police targeting human trafficking and the purchase of sex.

People working on the frontline of Cork’s homeless crisis say lives will be saved after gardaí raided a ‘Polish poitín’ operation which was selling hundreds of litres of illicit alcohol to rough sleepers.

The 'Onehouse' in Galway brings together all the necessary medical, therapeutic and policing services for children in one location.

Police Scotland said a 77-year-old man was arrested in the north of England on Wednesday morning and charged in relation to the deaths of Renee MacRae and her son Andrew.

Detectives in the North have charged a 38-year-old man with a number of offences including rape and threats to kill.

The attack happened in Hartwell Place in the north of the city this morning.

It was the prosecution's case that DNA evidence linked Darren Weldon to a number plate found in the debris of a car bomb which exploded outside Newry courthouse on February 22, 2010.

A man has been arrested and £6,500 of suspected cannabis seized during a search operation by detectives in the North.

A man who threatened two detectives executing a search warrant at his house that they would meet the same fate as a murdered garda colleague has been jailed for three years.

Police are investigating after a taxi driver was robbed by two men in Belfast on Friday.

The 20-year-old has been detained on suspicion of grievous bodily injury with intent.

A Kildare man tasked by senior criminal figures abroad to mind an “arsenal” of firearms and ammunition in the loft of a “fake” Dublin business premises has been sentenced to 11-and-a-half years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court.

A 22-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with the murder of mother-of-three Skaidrite Valdgeima who was stabbed to death a Dublin city-centre apartment.

21-year-old Gerard Whyte from Ballymun died in the collision.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar plans to visit the Dublin communities living in fear after three daytime gangland murders in recent days.

The family of a man killed while out walking his dogs in a Dublin forest have issued an appeal for information.

A teenager stabbed to death in Tallaght was on the phone when he was fatally wounded.

The cause of death at autopsy was compression of the neck with heart disease and acute alcohol and diazepam intoxication as contributory factors.

The practice involves criminals recruiting young people to help launder stolen or illegal money using their bank account.

Three children were inside the apartment with their mother, who said her youngest told her he was going to heaven and would come back and help them escape the fire.

A Monaghan mechanic has been found guilty of IRA membership by the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

A Dublin man accused of possessing almost €3m worth of drugs and an assault rifle told Gardaí that he and his brother, who was caught with 15 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, lived "separate lives" and were like "chalk and cheese".

There were poignant scenes as hundreds of people walked the short distance from St Mary's Church in Castlefinn to the nearby graveyard to say a final farewell to the 28-year-old.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and serious sexual assault after a "horrific" attack left a woman in a life-threatening condition.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 21-year-old woman was found dead inside a tent at a campsite.

A City worker who posted pictures of an intern on porn websites in a "perverted campaign" against her is facing jail.

Merseyside Police are hoping Liverpool supporters on their way to the club’s Champions League tie with Roma will come forward with footage and eyewitness accounts of an attack which left a Co Meath father in a critical condition.

Merseyside Police are hoping Liverpool supporters on their way to the club’s Champions League tie with Roma will come forward with footage and eyewitness accounts of an attack which left a Co Meath father in a critical condition.

A wealthy antiques dealer has admitted the murder of his seven-year-old daughter, dramatically changing his plea on the third day of his trial.

Crimestoppers and the gardaí have launched an appeal for information about a man missing for four years.

A fourth body, believed to be that of a young child, has been found by police investigating a fire that killed three other people in Co Fermanagh earlier this week.

Thieves in England have blown up a cash machine four months after a similar raid obliterated an ATM in the same town.

A woman whose father has been missing for years has been charged with murder in England after telling police she had killed a man and buried his body in her back garden.

Gardaí in Dublin say even a seemingly insignificant piece of information could be the final piece in the jigsaw that solves the case of a violent and prolonged sexual assault that took place in Clondalkin in July 2016.

Police in the North have issued a photograph of a mother who died during a family boating holiday there.

Ruthless burglars in the UK smashed their way into a family's home then threatened to hurt a newborn baby in a bid to uncover cash and valuables.

A pilot has appeared in a British court charged with murdering his wife.

A 14-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after an alleged assaulted last night.

Gardaí have launched a murder investigation following the death of a 36-year-old man in Letterkenny, Co Donegal.

The children of a criminal shot dead in his home told how a man holding a gun entered the kitchen wearing a balaclava before shooting their father dead.

A dog breeder in England who made more than £100,000 by trafficking women onto a "sexual conveyor belt" across England and Wales has been jailed for four years.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 32-year-old man was fatally shot in Accrington, England.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a child who may have been attacked by the family dog.

Gardaí have launched an appeal after the murder of Linda Evans, also known as Linda Christian, in Dublin earlier this year.

A senior garda decision to categorise a domestic disturbance complaint against a garda whistleblower as an incident causing serious harm or death was later questioned by the Garda Ombudsman.

A neighbour in England said she smelled a "weird barbecue" in the garden where a badly burned body was found.