Gardaí have most likely saved lives and dealt a significant financial blow to one of the biggest trafficking gangs in Ireland after a major gun and drugs haul.

You were meant to be reading an article that began: “My teenage boys are sleeping upstairs. Any minute now, they’ll be down to raid the fridge and go on the internet. This is what our teachers are doing to our children, blah, blah, blah.”

Gardaí are concerned for the welfare of a teenage girl who has gone missing from her home in Dublin.

A violent Dublin gang suspected of a series of robberies have used the train to make their getaway.

Gardaí have discovered that a violent criminal gang, whose leaders are based in Ballyfermot, Dublin and Tipperary, hold detailed intelligence data on business people living in counties Cork, Tipperary and Limerick identified as potential burglary/tiger kidnap targets.

Richard Dunne has described the call to retire from international football as "an extremely difficult decision" and said the memories of his Republic of Ireland career will stay with him forever.

The fleet of flashy sports cars and SUVs parked adjacent to the lush Carton House sports pitches give the impression Ireland’s Rugby elite are in camp at their training base.

Teachers at one of the country’s biggest further education colleges are in dispute over efforts to move some staff to other colleges.

A 32-year-old man has appeared in court today charged in connection with a major drugs seizure in Dublin.

A Dublin father of two has been sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in jail for membership of the IRA.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has condemned protesters who forced the Tánaiste and the children’s minister to abandon a children’s event in Dublin yesterday.

A gangster murdered minutes after collecting his children from school had survived at least two attempts on his life.

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Leinster senior league side Cherry Orchard caused the shock of the FAI Ford Cup second round with a 2-0 win over Longford Town.

State bodies have been allowed to snoop on suspected criminals since 2009, but a lack of resources has held them back from more cases, writes Conor Ryan

Students say they will drop out of college courses because of plans to close three Government-funded crèches.

Fianna Fáil will “Dublin-proof” all future party policies in a bid to recover votes in the capital.

GARDAÍ are conducting a massive investigation into the background of murder victim David D’Arcy to piece together why a “hard working and well-respected” man was shot dead in a gangland-style hit.

Gardaí in Dublin are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a missing teenage girl.

ALLEGATIONS of garda “harassment and brutality” against young people have been made by a community organisation at an Oireachtas committee.

Cher Lloyd has accused Cheryl Cole of deserting her following last year's 'X Factor'.

A GARDA hunt for a missing criminal, suspected of being murdered, is at a standstill after searches near his burnt out car drew a blank.

THE organisers of the Claiming Our Future citizens forum are planing events across the country in what they claim is an attempt to give voice to the ground swell of support for progressive social and economic policies.

THE Department of Education must immediately introduce strict new guidelines to protect physical education (PE) teachers who have to enter changing rooms with students from “accusations of inappropriate behaviour”.

Army bomb disposal experts made safe a viable improvised explosive device (IED) last night at Cloverhill Road, Ballyfermot, it has been announced.

The "warehouse man" in a drugs racket has been jailed for 12 years for possessing over €1m worth of cannabis and cocaine in Dublin city centre two-years ago.

GARDAÍ have formally identified the man found murdered in Dublin last Friday.

Gardaí at Ballyfermot in Dublin are renewing their appeal for help in tracing the whereabouts of 74-year-old Seamus Clarke.

COMMUNITY activists yesterday expressed delight following the seizure of a massive heroin haul in Dublin and the arrest red-handed of a wholesale drugs supplier.

Drugs squad officers smashed a massive drug smuggling ring today and seized a multi-million-euro haul of heroin.

ACCORDING to your columnist Diarmaid Ferriter (September 6), Fr Michael Cleary was “the obnoxious hypocrite, always a fraud, far more interested in his own profile and feeding his gargantuan ego than in showing any humanity towards the people he wounded ...”

BETWEEN the excitement over Belfast and the Boyne this week, Sinn Féin could be excused of welcoming a quiet day on the campaign trail. So why not Ballyfermot?

GARDAÍ are hot on the trail of the two men who escaped during the seizure of drugs worth €11 million in a Dublin apartment.

THE highest-paid councillor in the Republic last night insisted the people of Cork got value for money for his €82,000 earnings.

The 377th Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Vincent Jackson, begins the first day of his year-long term today.

Gardaí have appealed for information about a missing teenager.

YOUNG people need to find other ways of resolving rows rather than using knives, a youth worker and local politician said yesterday.

ALMOST four out of 10 drug-related deaths are now occurring outside Dublin, according to official figures.

A TEACHER who was discriminated against because of her age in an interview for a deputy principal’s job has been awarded €5,000 by the Equality Tribunal.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has called for three minutes’ silence to be observed tomorrow at 11am in memory of the victims of the Asian tsunami.

Ballyfermot has scooped a Silver Award at the finals of the UN endorsed international LivCom contest, officially recognising the Dublin suburb as one of world's "liveable communities".

Gardaí at Ballyfermot have appealed for help from the public in tracing the whereabouts of 13-year-old Robert Ellis.

RUMOUR was rife in Ballyfermot, Co Dublin, yesterday as to who won the fifth-largest Lotto jackpot of just under €7 million.