The investigation is on foot of a protected disclosure by a Garda who served in the town for a six-year period, but who has been on sick leave in recent years. It got underway late last year.

There were more than 1,750 formal complaints of alleged Garda misconduct last year.

Gardaí said the car left the road and struck a lampost in the Templeogue area of south Dublin at around 1.30am on Tuesday.

The DPP has been ordered by the High Court to provide transcripts to GSOC of the the trial of Patrick Hutch whose prosecution for murder collapsed earlier this year in the wake of the death of the senior investigating garda in the case.

A Garda has been treated in hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the foot.

A garda liaison officer who was arrested over the weekend in connection with an historic child sexual abuse complaint has been found dead.

No disciplinary proceedings should be taken against two gardaí after a firearm was lost in Dublin city centre last year, says the Garda watchdog.

The Garda Ombudsman, GSOC, has opened “a public interest investigation” into alleged irregularities in voter registration in Kerry.

GSOC sent 17 criminal investigation files to the DPP last year, but directions to bring charges against gardaí have so far been given in just four cases.

GSOC's annual report shows almost 2,000 complaints detailing almost 3,000 allegations were made against officers, a slight drop on the previous year's figures.

The caseload of whistleblower complaints requiring investigation by the Garda Ombudsman doubled last year.

The garda watchdog is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of a man after an incident at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has been notified.

Assistant Garda Commissioner Fintan Fanning had his suspension lifted tonight after GSOC contacted him to say that he was no longer the subject of a criminal investigation.

Gardaí have confirmed that a senior officer has been suspended from duty.

Garda chief must face challenges head on Drew Harris’s Christmas got off to a bad start. On December 19 the Garda commissioner received notification that one of his senior officers was to be the subject of a criminal investigation.

The Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has denied claims any oversight of the Gardaí is being “watered down”.

Video footage has emerged online of an incident under investigation by the Garda watchdog, during which a man was shot in the leg.

GSOC is investigating after a man was injured and a dog killed during an incident in Granard in County Longford yesterday.

Gsoc is investigating allegations that a senior garda opened a criminal investigation into a personal injury claim because he was friendly with the employer against whom the claim was made.

Outcomes of previous blueprints have never matched the ambition. Major upheaval, both internally and external to the force, will be required, writes Michael Clifford.

More than seven years ago, Shane O’Farrell was killed in a hit and run. The Dáil has backed a commission of investigation into the incident. The family last month wrote to the justice minister seeking action. Why is this being put on the long finger, asks Michael Clifford.

Toxicology tests are to be conducted on the body of a driver who died after crashing his van as he fled gardaí, in a tragedy that left a woman in a critical condition and a teenage boy injured.

The timing of the publication of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission report into the investigation of the West Cork murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996 must provoke deep cynicism.

The report outlines Mr Bailey’s arrests, on suspicion of a murder he has always denied, on February 10, 1997, and January 27, 1998. On both occasions, Mr Bailey was released without charge.

The number of complaints received last year by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission rose by 10%, although there was a fall in the number of referrals from gardaí.

Almost 2,000 complaints were made against the gardaí in 2017, a new report shows.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC)  has launched an investigation into the temporary loss of a Garda sub-machine gun and ammunition, citing reports of an “apparent lack of security” in the incident.

Gsoc did not have evidence of criminality at the time it launched a criminal investigation in relation to three gardaí, including a sergeant who took his own life, a judicial inquiry has concluded.

The Justice Minister says he is "open-minded" about a further inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell.

The body of Jastine Valdez could be flown home to the Philippines by the middle of next week.

The detective who fatally shot killer Mark Hennessy will have to explain to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) that he honestly believed either his life or the life of another person was in “immediate danger” when he opened fire.

It is understood, a local drug dealer from South Dublin has contacted Gardaí to say that Mark Hennessy had attempted to buy cocaine from him on the night Jastine Valdez was murdered.

Update 10.15am 

One in five superintendents are being investigated by the garda ombudsman (GSOC), with many of the inquiries taking up to five years to complete.

The Garda Ombudsman has bluntly told the justice minister that if its staffing is not significantly increased it would “undoubtedly result” in the organisation’s failure to meet its obligations to the public.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission has told the Department of Justice it wants powers to investigate a Garda commissioner free from the stranglehold of having to get permission from the Government.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has been unable to bring a single protected disclosure investigation to a satisfactory conclusion because of chronic understaffing, according to its chair, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring.

Sinn Féin has warned the Government that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) must be properly resourced to work properly.

Four investigators are being hired by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) to take on a surge in whistleblower complaints from members of the force.

The Policing Authority is legally prevented from finding out if a senior officer it is considering for promotion is implicated in a whistleblower investigation being conducted by Gsoc, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe   

Newly appointed Arts Minister Josepha Madigan has contradicted GSOC's controversial decision not to pursue gardai who illegally scrapped penalty points, saying there must be accountability on the issue, writes Political Correspondent, Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Gsoc has criticised the failure by Garda management to sanction members of the force who abused the penalty points system despite some of those officers ranking as high as superintendent.