The Minister for Justice says people involved in gangland crime are "losers".

A man who has acted as a drug runner for one of the gangs in the Drogheda feud was said the people involved are "scumbags" and "very dangerous".

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has ordered the elite ERU (Emergency Response Unit) into Drogheda as part of a crackdown on increasingly violent turf wars between feuding drug gangs.

Encrypted mobile phones have become a “big problem” for gardaí tackling gangs and they are seeking expanded powers to demand passwords to access them.

The Irish Prison Service says up to 14 major gangs are operating in the country's jails.

Communities living “under the power” of criminal gangs need to be supported in building up their independence and in protecting their children, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has said.

Two men in their 20s have been shot dead while sitting in a car in a Stockholm suburb where feuds between criminal gangs fighting over territory have taken place.

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.

A film shoot took a dramatic real-life twist for students at a Kerry school when armed gardaí swooped on the scene.

Gardaí are fearing “some form of spectacular” from both sides of the Kinahan-Hutch feud as the anniversary of the Regency Hotel attack approaches next week.

Six suspected members of a criminal gang have died in a shootout with Jamaican police near the tourist zone of Montego Bay, officials said.

Latest: Twenty-seven inmates have died in eruptions of violence in two northern Brazilian prisons, officials have said.

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

The head of the EU’s police agency said it is “only a matter of time” before the bosses of organised crime gangs, such as the Kinahan cartel, are “caught and locked up”.

An internal INLA dispute and the Kinahan-Hutch feud are being examined as motives for the latest gun attack in Dublin.

There are 10 to 12 major criminal gangs controlling the lucrative fuel laundering trade on both sides of the border, according to a report.

Prison officers are calling for gangland criminals to be separated in our jails.

Killings spiked by nearly 70% last year in the gang-plagued El Salvador, authorities said, resulting in a homicide rate that could make it the world’s most violent country.

Gardaí are investigating after a man was left fighting for his life following a suspected gangland shooting in Dublin.

The Prison Service is being blamed for the growth of criminal gangs in jails.

Gardaí have most likely saved lives and dealt a significant financial blow to one of the biggest trafficking gangs in Ireland after a major gun and drugs haul.

The congregation at the funeral of murdered Dublin criminal Garry Hutch has been told "to break the cycle of violence - by not seeking revenge".

Nearly 30,000 suspected people smugglers have been identified by European authorities since the start of the year.

Up to 3,000 migrants are expected to cross into Macedonia every day in the coming months, most of them refugees fleeing war, particularly from Syria, the UN has said.

Call on all member states to support under-pressure countries.

Almost 250 suspected dissident republicans and 25 gang members were arrested within the last year under emergency anti-terror and organised crime laws.