Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has requested a business case for increased staffing at specialist crime bureaus, including a unit tasked with combating the financing of terrorism.

A senior officer in An Garda Síochána is under investigation for suspected abuse of public office through involvement in an alleged malicious suspension of a member of the force.

Gardaí will need a supplementary budget of €75m to cover it for the rest of the year, despite the cancellation of overtime.

The legal representation from the State for former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is normal practice, according to the Taoiseach.

Garda commissioner Drew Harris has said the recommendations of Mr Justice Peter Charleton were a “clarion call” for action to reform the police force.

The Garda Commissioner says he is open to whistleblowers in the force and would treat those coming forward with the utmost seriousness.

The Policing Authority has questioned how a proposed internal Garda Board will protect the interests of the public when its duty will be to “put the interests of the organisation first”.

There was a reassuring air about the press conference given yesterday by the new Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has dismissed concerns about the appointment of Garda commissioner Drew Harris, saying the Government is not hiring a police chief from North Korea.

Drew Harris takes up his role as the new Garda Commissioner today.

A legal bid to challenge the appointment of the new Garda Commissioner has been dismissed by a judge in the High Court.

The High Court has heard that the choice for Garda Commissioner would be incapable of being independent in the role.

The acting Garda Commissioner has described 2017 as “a challenging year” for gardaí, which was marked by “unacceptable behavioural and governance failures.”

Two conundrums have emerged with the appointment of PSNI police chief Drew Harris as the next garda commissioner.

Latest: A former Justice Minister says the appointment of an outsider as Garda Commissioner is the first step in reforming the force.

Five candidates are in the running for the Garda commissioner job, the Irish Examiner understands.

Former Commissioner Martin Callinan has denied telling Philip Boucher-Hayes that Maurice McCabe had psychological and psychiatric issues and was motivated by a set of grievances against the Gardaí.

With all that has been revealed about the treatment of Sgt Maurice McCabe, it might have been reasonable

Information on the number of applications for the post of Garda Commissioner is being kept under wraps.

The former head of the Public Accounts Committee will give evidence today at the Disclosures Tribunal on the treatment of Garda whistleblowers.

Applications have been invited from people who might wish to be the next Garda Commissioner.

Last Wednesday, two technical specialists in An Garda Síochána told an Oireachtas committee how they had uncovered dangerous practice in the force.

Civilian leaders from across the world are being invited to apply for the “extremely challenging” position of Garda commissioner.

The recruitment process for the next Garda Commissioner has been launched.

The former Justice Minister will continue giving evidence at the Disclosures Tribunal today.

Former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald directly contacted the Garda commissioner in 2015 to raise concerns that issues relating to whistleblower Maurice McCabe were not being resolved.

Did the commissioner of An Garda Síochána wrongly attempt to discredit a Garda whistleblower behind the closed doors of a statutory inquiry?

The chair of the Disclosures Tribunal says everyone now accepts that false allegations of abuse were not used to discredit Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Inquiry.

It could be more than 7 months before a new Garda Commissioner is appointed.

In July 2015, the following was the official line to be conveyed to the media by the minister for justice about the status of Sgt Maurice McCabe.

We need to stop focusing on quick-fix solutions but instead work on reframing Irish policing to ground it in the principles of human rights, writes Liam Herrick. 

In our least attractive national game — kicking the can down the road — there are strategies to buy time so hard decisions might be long-fingered.

Not one garda has been disciplined over the bogus alcohol breath test scandal despite the force admitting it inaccurately recorded some 6.4m tests at one stage.

Senior gardai have denied they knew of the widescale falsification of alcohol breath test data, contradicting claims by rank-and-file gardaí that management applied pressure to inflate figures.

Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin is to be paid the full €180,613 salary his predecessor Nóirín O’Sulivan got, the Irish Examiner has revealed.

Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin is to be paid the full €180,613 salary his predecessor Nóirín O’Sulivan got, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin has apologised to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for misleading it over the release of a report into the controvesial re-opening of Stepaside Garda Station.

Policing commission chairwoman Kathleen O’Toole has ruled herself out of consideration for the garda commissioner job.

Acting garda chief won’t seek top post

The sooner we stop talking palaver about the decent men and women in the force the better. writes Gerard Howlin.

The Minister for Finance has refused to say if he believes the next Garda Commissioner should come from inside or outside the force.

Opposition parties are demanding to know if the Government did a special deal with Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan over her shock resignation.

Frontline gardaí and supervisors are expected to fight any attempt by management — acting under Government pressure — to single them out for disciplinary action for the inflation of breath-test figures.

Just who is going to replace the Garda chief and are the force’s organisational problem solved with Nóirín O’Sullivan’s shock departure, asks Cormac O’Keeffe