The arrest of a Turkish international heroin trafficker in Dublin is a significant indicator of the scale of the heroin trade in this country.

A high-level Irish-British police operation has hit a massive drug-smuggling operation involving a “major Turkish supplier”, Ireland’s biggest heroin trafficking gang, and a Dublin man known in celebrity circles.

With Electric Picnic nearing, the Garda’s top drug officer talks to Cormac O’Keeffe about drugs, festivals and testing.

Garda figures appear to indicate a sharp rise in the quantity of cocaine being trafficked into the country, replicating trends across Europe.

A busted “backyard” drug factory linked to the Kinahan crime cartel was capable of producing up to 7,000 ecstasy pills every hour, gardaí believe.

There has been a 40% drop in the number of gardaí in local drug units in the last eight years — a fall that has continued despite the restarting of recruitment.

An estimated €250,000 in cash that was seized as part of an Irish-Australian police operation into drug trafficking was found literally stuffed inside the mattress of a bed.

Four loaded weapons “primed, armed and ready” for use were among an arsenal of 15 firearms found at an “elaborate” industrial unit purporting to be a legitimate business.

Three cars worth €100k, 20 watches worth €200k, and €28,500 cash seized from drug dealing brothers.

There’s always a temptation to say a major drugs haul represents a ‘significant blow’ to the crime gang being hit. Researchers have long complained of the tendency of the media, and gardaí, to make such claims, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Gardaí have scored another success against the Kinahan crime cartel after they arrested a suspected hit squad member after he landed off a flight at Dublin Airport.

Gardaí have continued their crackdown on the Kinahan crime cartel with the arrest of a man in Wexford.

Officers seized documents including a ledger of cash payments and discovered more than €300,000 in cash in Thursday's raid.

Gardaí are examining a ledger of cash payments, which was uncovered with more than €300,000 in cash, at a Kinahan counting centre in south Dublin.

Det Supt Tony Howard, key figure in fight against Kinahan cartel, to run response to Disclosure Tribunal

Anti-gang Garda units confronted an armed crime boss when they thwarted an attempted robbery of a security van.

The Garda Air Support Unit flew more than 1,500 hours last year, targeting crimes in progress and on one occasion locating a missing person who may not otherwise have survived the night.

A senior garda has described the level of murderous violence in the Kinahan-Hutch feud as “quite staggering”.