Latest: Gardaí have appealled for witnesses to come forward who may have information on the incident which took place in Inchicore on Wednesday afternoon.

The dedicated Armed Support Unit for Dublin has dealt with 248 serious incidents in a three-month period, it emerged yesterday.

Crime bosses have lost more than €8m in cash, €65m worth of drugs and almost 100 luxury vehicles as a result of Garda anti-gangland operations in the last year.

There has been a 150% jump in the use of covert surveillance by gardaí on gangs and dissident republicans in the last year.

An elite armed Garda unit for Dublin is being launched today without a dedicated boss at its helm because of persistent vacancies, writes Cormac O'Keeffe of the Irish Examiner.

The Government has a full-scale policing crisis on its hands after mid-ranking gardaí decided to join frontline gardaí in taking strike action on the same four Fridays in November.

Funding to boost staffing levels in An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service and to bring forward the construction of a new forensic science laboratory are contained in the Budget 2017 allocation to the Department of Justice.

The gangland murder of David ‘Daithí’ Douglas last Friday week ultimately resulted from “bad decisions” he made as a younger man, those attending his funeral heard yesterday.

Delays to the establishment of a much-publicised elite armed response unit for Dublin have been averted. A legal challenge has been withdrawn.

Gardaí yesterday arrested a dissident republican carrying bomb parts just yards outside one of the country’s busiest garda stations.

Captain Ciara Ni Ruairc from the Defence Forces explains what was found: “Its basic components, so component parts, of an improvised explosive device.

Gardaí have warned the bosses of the Kinahan crime cartel that they are intent on arresting them abroad and bringing them back home to face justice.

The Government has been put under pressure to change the laws around the illegal sale of prescription drugs on the street in the wake of the most recent gangland murder.

Gardaí in Dublin are again on high alert after a brother of a murdered dissident republican leader died last night following a gun attack.