Lawyers are set to demand fee hikes for representing free legal aid clients in the criminal courts — just as the justice minister plans to tighten up the scheme and perhaps even disband it.

The justice minister is reviewing a system that costs €50m a year and that unquestioningly finances repeat offenders, but public defenders would not be cheaper and may involve a conflict of interest, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A dossier detailing how some of Europe’s most dangerous criminals were able to move to Britain shows why voters must back Brexit, said campaigners.

The Garda Commissioner has said they are considering terrorism as one of many lines of inquiry following two fatal shootings in Dublin.

Saudi Arabia has executed 47 criminals, including leading Shiite Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the country’s state television said.

Data stolen in the cyber attack on TalkTalk does not allow criminals to plunder customers’ bank accounts, the company has claimed.

The Government has being urged to implement laws to allow for tagging of criminals.

The Government is to shortly publish a bill which will specifically target repeat burglars and lead to tougher sentencing.

Owners of small companies have no faith that criminals who target their trade will be brought to justice, at a time when the total cost of crime against businesses amounts to €1.62bn per year.

Gardaí are turning down six in every 10 requests by prison chiefs for armed escorts for dangerous criminals, newly released figures show.

Convicted criminals have been gifted more than €750,000 in ‘bus money’ on release from jail over the past five years.

I have returned to Ireland having spent 32 years living and working abroad.