Checks carried out whilst the suspect was detained revealed that a live European arrest warrant was in place for him on a number of serious offences.

Gardai have made changes to their Covid checkpoints plan to take lorries out of the long queues which thousands of motorists were caught in across the country yesterday.

Gardaí will adopt three of their four ‘Es’ during Operation Fanacht: engage, explain, and encourage — but not the fourth: enforce.