Frontline Garda supervisors are to consider taking legal action against the Government over its plans to introduce legislation denying gardaí the right to strike and access to a special pay review body.

Unions representing members of Dublin Fire Brigade and the City Council have agreed to mediation.

Revenue officers in post offices applied charges to more than 70,000 parcels last year.

Dozens of military army officers, including some senior ones, have been arrested over an alleged plot to overthrow long-time president Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan sources said.

Five police officers have been hurt after their vehicle overturned in Co Londonderry.

Prison officers in England are falling ill after inhaling ‘legal highs’ used by inmates.

Met stresses ‘focused lines of investigation’ still to be pursued

Former police officers may have been newly appointed to a unit investigating security force killings, a barrister told an inquest in Belfast.

Canadian police arrested a man suspected of having shot dead three police officers and wounding two more, ending a massive manhunt.