A third arrest has been made as part of an ongoing operation targeting the sale and supply of illegal drugs and the possession of firearms in Co Clare.

Zac Higgins, from Mahon in Cork city, was diagnosed with a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) to the brain after he was hit by a car in March.

Farms, houses and commercial premises were searched in Kilkenny, Sligo, Westmeath, Sligo and Leitrim this morning.

Gardaí say they are investigating "all the circumstances surrounding the discovery".

The FAI’s largest sponsor has issued a warning over the association’s corporate governance amid controversy over its finances.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is leading a major operation targeting a criminal “unknown” suspected of laundering the proceeds of the Kinahan crime cartel.

An investigation is underway after a weapon was fired by a member of the Defence Forces accidentally at a petrol station.

Bulgarian officials say they will investigate reports about a third suspect in last year's nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former spy in Salisbury.

Three people who were arrested by gardaí yesterday as part of their investigation into the murder of Michael Keogh in Dublin in 2017 have been released without charge.

Gardaí have made three arrests as part of their investigation into the murder of Michael Keogh in Dublin in 2017.

Four people who were arrested yesterday in connection with the suspected funding of IS groups in Syria have been released without charge.

Two planes waiting to take off at Dublin Airport last May almost clipped each other, a new report shows.

Mr MacLochlainn was killed during an attempted armed robbery of a Securicor van in Ashford, Co Wicklow in May 1998.

Two weeks ago, the justice minister ordered what now appears to be a Mickey Mouse probe into a whistleblower’s claims about the prison service, writes Michael Clifford

Even in the chilling litany of horrors inflicted by one Northern Ireland community on the other, the 1994 murder of six men by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Loughinisland as they watched a World Cup game, has a particular sharpness, a sharpness still relevant today.

Gardaí are searching for two men after a man was shot dead in Ballymun in Dublin last night.

The Data Protection Commission confirmed it has launched an investigation into a data breach at Facebook last week.

Gardaí are investigating online threats made against a garda working in Dublin following the Take Back The City protest earlier this week.

Alleged child abuse victim Máiría Cahill was “failed” by a disjointed Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation, a police watchdog has said.

A number of supermarket and branded vanilla ice creams contain no vanilla, no cream and no fresh milk, an investigation has found.

Gardaí are investigating an assault on at least one prison officer by an inmate during a busy court sitting in Dublin.

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.

A Dublin City Councillor says gun crime is becoming all too common in communities throughout the capital.

Gardaí in Co Laois are investigating a report that a number of men were found in the back of a truck.

A new government crackdown launched in the wake of the UK’s knife crime “epidemic” will target gangs, drugs and ban “zombie blades”, writes Peter Traynor.

Latest: A phone belonging to Cameron Reilly could contain evidence that he was lured to his death.

Gardaí are investigating an alleged serious sexual assault which occurred in Leinster.

The death of a prominent Russian exile on British soil is now being treated as murder, Scotland Yard has announced.

A man has died in a house fire in Dublin.

Gardaí are creating a network of local officers skilled in investigating complex fraud across its divisions.