An undercover investigation has revealed how easy it is for an individual to pose as a taxi driver writes Roisin Burke.

Ireland is expected to appeal an EU ruling calling its tax deal with Apple illegal.

The illegal cigarette market remains a big business for criminals, according to Retailers Against Smuggling (RAS).

A website used to report illegal content on the internet, received almost twice as many complaints in 2014 as the previous year.

Italy’s coastguard and navy have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants since Friday as good weather encourages the desperate to set out on smugglers’ vessels.

THE stench of rotting garbage and diesel fumes hangs heavily over the main street of Giugliano in Campania, a sprawling town just north of Naples.

More than 100,000 illegal prescription medicines worth almost €300,000 were seized in Ireland in one week. During the operation, 85 medicine packages were taken by custom officials at postal sorting offices.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has held out hope for 55,000 undocumented Irish living in the United States, telling representatives from Congress — where legislation on the issue has stalled — to “get on with it”.

To say a forced adoption policy was not pursued here is laughable, says Conall Ó Fátharta

President calls on the State and institutions to provide information