THE gardaí have revealed plans for a Sexual Crime Management Unit as part of a new policy on investigating sex crimes, including the abuse of children.

A SPECIAL Garda unit is being set up to document, monitor and investigate clerical sex abuse cases and other sexual offences.

A RETIRED Garda boss has called for prosecutions to be taken against gardaí who covered up clerical child sex abuse documented in the Murphy Report.

GARDAÍ are unearthing a level of internet child pornography use that is thought to be on a scale greater than that exposed by Operation Amethyst.

IT WOULD be reassuring, wouldn’t it, to be certain that convicted sex offenders were being monitored.

GARDAÍ are ignoring calls to help lift the veil of secrecy surrounding domestic violence by no longer keeping comprehensive records on the issue.

IT’S an unfortunate coincidence that Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne retires in the same week as six gardaí appear in court charged with assault causing harm against civilians.

IN Garda headquarters they can’t recall who suggested the codename Amethyst and the detective chief superintendent in charge insists it holds no significance.

The family of the child at the centre of an abduction in Co Westmeath have spoken of their relief at her safe return.