A seven-hour rampage in which three Limerick criminals struck fear into rural communities on the outskirts of the city, “smacked of the Wild West”, a judge said yesterday when jailing all three.

A civil servant in the Department of Justice has told a judge that gardaí who broke into his Dublin flat five years ago searched his belongings and said to him: “We are searching for bombs, bullets, and guns.”

A heroin dealer who was jailed this month for a stash concealed in a teddy bear got another sentence for a drug driving crime yesterday .

A detective garda, who was stabbed under his right eye after having been called to sort out trouble on Halloween night 2010, has been awarded over €35,000 damages in the High Court.

The supervisor of a garda accused of forging a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions has denied telling the garda that if she “admitted wrongdoing” she would be “looked after”.

An off-duty garda has been praised by a judge for arming himself with a traffic cone and catching two robbers after witnessing a raid in a Dublin shop.

Marie Farrell denied in the High Court it was she who initiated most contact with Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald.

Marie Farrell told a High Court jury that Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald stripped naked and asked her for sex while she was looking after a house in West Cork.

A North Cork doctor has denied he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old patient by fondling her breasts for several minutes when she attended his surgery with a chest cold.

A senior garda who drank whiskey to calm his nerves after accidentally reversing his car over a 4-year-old girl has been cleared of attempting to frustrate a drink-drive prosecution.

Last week, Adrian Donohoe should have been celebrating his birthday, surrounded by his wife Caroline and two children Amy and Niall.

The killing of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was an unspeakable crime which changed the lives of his family, according to Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

In the condemnation of the killing of Det Garda Adrian Donohoe, there is a trend to link criminality to republicanism.

The chief celebrant at the funeral Mass of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe called for the Government to reflect on the huge cuts affecting the Garda force.

For the first time, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has apologised to the family of murdered garda Jerry McCabe.

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.

The UK authorities are seeking the extradition of a Corkman wanted on charges including one that he defrauded a family out of £120 (about €150) after telling them he could arrange for their son to be a mascot at Premier League football match.

A convicted rapist who had been released months earlier followed a student home and caught her around the neck, causing her such terror that she no longer felt safe to live in Cork.

A top detective said “I'm f***ed, I'm f***ed” when an unmarked Garda car he was driving crashed on the M50 motorway after he had spent hours in a pub, a court has heard.

SWEDISH police have said if Ireland and other countries adopted their stringent anti-prostitution laws, it would aid police co-operation and help make Europe a no-go area for sex traffickers.

A Polish man who raped a woman after tying her boyfriend up with rope and duct tape has been given five life sentences by Mr Justice Peter Charleton at the Central Criminal Court.

Sinn Féin’s Martin Ferris today stood by his controversial decision to meet the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe on their release from prison.

A DETECTIVE searching the home of a man accused of money laundering believed the accused was part of an IRA gang that included another man caught at a railway station with a large amount of euro cash in a Daz washing powder box.

The garda in charge of the investigation into the death of Siobhan Kearney decided the situation looked sinister on the day of her death a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

ARMED gardaí stood guard yesterday as a leading figure in the IRA was accused of tax evasion.

A detective garda who shot dead two raiders told an inquest today that there was no doubt in his mind an armed gunman was prepared to kill him.

A Dublin student was given a three years suspended sentence by the Special Criminal Court today for IRA membership.

AS ONE of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe walked free from Castlerea Prison yesterday, a spokesman for the family of the slain garda said Michael O’Neill should be doing another 30 years for murder.

A RETIRED detective superintendent yesterday branded as ridiculous the suggestion a false statement had been used as a catalyst in the hope of getting a man to confess to murder.

Deputy state pathologist Dr Michael Curtis has examined the scene where the body of an elderly man was discovered at a sheltered housing unit in Dublin today.

A detective garda today denied showing gruesome photographs of a dead man in a morgue to a wrongly-arrested suspect in a murder case.

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.

Sinn Féin must name the “authorised officer” who sanctioned a post office raid that resulted in the killing of Det Garda Jerry McCabe, it was claimed today.

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The country’s biggest Garda union today hit out at broadcaster Eamon Dunphy over controversial comments he made on his radio show that gardaí were corrupt.

The former Dublin City and County Assistant Manager, Mr George Redmond, told gardaí he got a cheque for Ir£5,000 "out of the blue" from car salesman Brendan Fassnidge in 1988.