People living near Dundalk may hold vital clues which could bring the killers of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe to justice, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said.

A tanning salon operator has been granted bail after he was charged over a seizure of cocaine at a north Dublin apartment.

A woman who stopped to assist a man on the side of the road was the victim of a hijacking and yesterday the sentencing judge said the case was too serious to impose sentence without giving it further consideration.

A former detective inspector has denied gardaí arrested Jules Thomas in bad faith so as to put pressure on her partner Ian Mr Bailey, at the time of his first arrest in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork.

A Libyan-born man who once featured on the UN al Qaeda “terror list” has offered to make tea for two officers from the Garda Special Detective Unit after he pleaded guilty to assaulting them.

A suspect in the murder of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe is believed to have fled to America.

Though yesterday’s funeral in Dundalk was tragic, most especially for Det Garda Adrian Donohoe’s widow Caroline, their son Niall — just six years of age — and daughter Amy — seven — we can all take some small crumb of comfort from the powerful reaction to his murder.

A burned out car found in Co Armagh is believed to have been used by the gang responsible for the shooting dead of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth.

AN elderly west Limerick man tied up in his isolated home managed to free himself and scramble through fields and open countryside on a winter’s night to raise the alarm, a court heard.

A law under which a garda fraud officer directed a bank to freeze two accounts of a company suspected of involvement in money-laundering was declared unconstitutional by a High Court judge yesterday.

A JURY was discharged last night after failing to reach a verdict in a case where a man was charged in connection with a sawn-off shotgun attack.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) collected more than €19m in unpaid taxes from suspected crooks in 2006, it emerged today.

THE IRA robbery in Adare which led to the brutal killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was carried out to finance an extensive bungalow for the gang leader, the Irish Examiner has learned.

ON RTÉ’s Prime Time on April 4, Sinn Féin’s Pat Doherty said he wished to ‘condemn unreservedly’ the murder of Denis Donaldson in Co Donegal.

SINN FÉIN has rejected claims it exploited the plight of the Rossport Five to target Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and gain political ground in the Mayo constituency in the process.

The IRA killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe are not in control of their prison and will serve out their full sentences, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North Martin Ferris has welcomed a statement from the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe in which they apologise for his death.

The national executive of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) has said Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde’s assertion that the IRA carried out the multi-million euro bank heist in Belfast last month was further proof that the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe should not be released under any circumstances.

I WAS surprised to learn that the Taoiseach and his Government have capitulated once more to the demands of Sinn Fein/IRA.

THE Government was split last night over the possible release of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe’s killers as part of a comprehensive deal on the North that may be secured on Wednesday.

VOTERS for Sinn Féin in the local and European elections should be aware that they are unequivocally affirming support for the unconditional early release of the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.