Garda bosses say the “unprecedented” number of gangland convictions in the courts in the last fortnight highlights the “unrelenting” approach of State agencies to tackling organised crime.

A massive haul of heroin at Dublin Airport — involving a female courier accompanied by a child — is believed to be part of a sophisticated trafficking system to bring consignments from Pakistan into Britain.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has seized five high-end cars as part of an ongoing operation targeting one of the country's biggest drug trafficking gangs.

Spanish police say they have “dismantled” a major Irish drug-trafficking gang after a joint operation with gardaí resulted in the seizure of 170kg of cannabis herb and the arrest of four Irish men.

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.

Gardaí are to use evidence seized from the darknet in forthcoming high-profile prosecutions against organised crime groups.

There is an “unprecedented” number of people before the courts or in custody on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, Garda bosses investigating the Kinahan crime cartel have said.

Gardaí say the Kinahan crime cartel is “running out of people to do their work” after an international operation resulted in 13 arrests in Ireland and the Netherlands and the seizure of an estimated €10m worth of drugs.

Latest: A man is in custody this evening after a firearm and silencer were found in a van in Dublin.

A major revamp of the Garda Síochána's security and firearms operations was instituted yesterday.

Banks, credit unions, cash businesses and professions can now report suspicious transactions more easily to specialist gardaí with a new secure online system.

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

Criminal gangs are showing their ‘flexibility’ by laundering their profits from criminal activity through the horse-racing industry and gyms, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Gardaí are concerned at the extreme efforts of the Kinahan cartel to hide their criminal enterprise, after an individual described as being “way below the radar” was arrested in connection with a cartel drug-and-gun haul, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

An e-class Mercedes worth around €40,000 was seized yesterday from a criminal gang with connections with the Hutch grouping.

Gardaí are concerned at the extreme efforts of the Kinahan cartel to hide their criminal enterprise, after an individual described as being “way below the radar” was arrested in connection with a cartel drug-and-gun haul.

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

Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Gardaí have been set targets this year to cut crime, increase victim satisfaction, and improve public ratings, in the first such policing demands on the organisation.

Up to 20 firearms, including an assault rifle and a submachine gun, have been seized in west Dublin.

Gardaí are braced for a backlash from the Hutch gang against the Kinahan cartel amid intelligence of a death threat against a senior cartel figure.

The crime-solving rate by gardaí has dropped substantially over a five-year period, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Gardaí have seized around €300,000 worth of cannabis herb in Co. Kildare and Co. Dublin.

Garda gang units have saved the lives of Hutch family members and potentially of innocent bystanders after seizing an arsenal of high-powered weaponry from the Kinahan crime cartel.

The Garda Representative Association said the exemptions they have given to 18 units and areas will provide a “skeletal service” to protect the community and the State today.

Revenue’s Customs Officers seized €200,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine during a house search in Limerick today.

Three men appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court at 7.30pm tonight charged in connection with a cash in transit robbery outside a bank on Friday.

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 man arrested in Spain for the gangland murder that ignited the bloody Hutch- Kinahan feud is expected to appear in court there today.

Gardaí have prosecutions “in the pipeline” after almost €800,000 in cash was seized from four major crime gangs since June.

Two women remain in Garda custody this morning in relation to a seizure of cannabis plants worth €150,000 in Co. Westmeath.

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

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

Gardaí believe they have prevented up to 12 murder attempts in the Kinahan-Hutch feud, which has claimed at least eight lives, writes Cormac O'Keeffe of the Irish Examiner.

Gardaí believe they have prevented up to 12 murder attempts in the Kinahan-Hutch feud, which has claimed at least eight lives.

Gardaí believe they have deprived a feuding gang of a “safehouse” used to store guns and large quantities of drugs.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has confirmed that 50 gardaí are being assigned to the new gangland task force.

The impact of the new anti-gangland task force will be “dictated” by the resources made available to it, one of its leaders said yesterday.