A 29-year-old charged with having a sawn-off shotgun following an alleged shooting incident and high-speed chase through Cork signed a plea of guilty to all charges against him yesterday.

One man will appear in court this morning in connection with a car chase and burglary in County Laois yesterday morning.

Three police officers and two members of the public have been injured after a car chase in east Belfast.

One person has been killed in a dramatic motorway chase and shoot-out that involved three crashes and a pile-up on the Belgian-French border.

A manhunt is underway after a gang of men, suspected of a series of burglaries in Co. Cork, escaped capture in a high-speed car chase with gardaí at rush hour, the Evening Echo has reported.

Three men have been arrested after Gardaí pursued a car in south Dublin this afternoon.

A stolen car was driven at high speed though Cork suburbs in rush-hour traffic, crossing to the wrong side of the road, mounting a footpath where families were walking, and later ramming a Garda car.

Five houses were burgled within a mile of UCC by a Dublin gang who were caught after a high-speed chase and yesterday they were given five- and six-year sentences.

Several Garda units spent over three hours chasing a two-man gang across Cork today following a spate of burglaries and a road accident.

Gardai in Cork have arrested two men following an attempted robbery and high-speed car chase this morning.