Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after three people were believed to be falsely imprisoned in a minibus along the M1 in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Gardaí investigated more than 100 child abduction cases since 2015 according to new figures from the Department of Justice.

US Police have named the man suspected of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, who was found alive yesterday.

The dark web has been thrown into the spotlight following the kidnapping of a British model in Milan.

A British model who claims she was kidnapped and held captive in Italy, is back in the UK and being interviewed by police and officials from the Foreign Office.

A woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their California home has described the "hell that we have survived" in emotional testimony.

A man has gone on trial charged with kidnapping a post office worker, his partner, and their baby before robbing over €600,000 from the man’s workplace.

Gunmen have kidnapped two Germans from a village in northern Nigeria, police said.

Update at 10.15pm: Three foreign workers, including two Italians, have been kidnapped in south-west Libya, officials have said.

An investigation is ongoing after a woman was allegedly kidnapped in north Dublin this morning.

A 41-year-old woman has been jailed for two years after admitting the kidnapping of a nine-week-old baby from his family home.

The father of a two-year-old abducted from a Primark store last April by girls aged 13 and 14 said the kidnappers used sweets as part of their plan to entice her away.

Alan Pulido has been kidnapped in the country's northern border state of Tamaulipas.

An Australian mother and TV crew caught up in a high-profile child custody battle and detained in Beirut amid a botched attempt to take the woman's two children from their Lebanese father have been released on bail.

There was a 25% increase in the number of kidnapping and related offences last year.

Events have happened recently that makes me outraged and makes me want to speak out about it and to wonder what life is really all about.

There was a sharp increase in the number of robberies across Cork’s three Garda divisions in 2013 at a time when the incidence of such crime was falling nationally.

Two people were being questioned tonight after the terrified family of a bank official were held hostage overnight at their north Co Dublin home.

Bank of Ireland has confirmed that the bank official who was kidnapped along with his family this morning was one of its employees.

Two people have been arrested following another tiger kidnapping in Dublin.

Gardaí have said it's too early to say whether last night's botched abduction in north Dublin is linked to two other so-called “tiger kidnappings” in the area in recent days.

Armed tiger kidnappers struck again today targeting the family of another post office worker just one day after an almost identical attack.

Gardaí in north Dublin are searching for an armed gang who took a couple and their son hostage during what appears to have been a botched robbery in the early hours of this morning.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Aidan Leahy, the Irish tourist who was held captive in Iran for the past month, has been released from captivity by his kidnappers.

Reports from earthquake-stricken Iran are indicating that the Irish tourist kidnapped there at the beginning of December will be released later today.