Animal Health Ireland has appointed Lawrence Gavey as its new Johne’s disease programme manager, and Dr Carla Correia Gomes as the new Pig HealthCheck programme manager. Both have recently taken up their new positions with AHI.

A man who threatened two detectives executing a search warrant at his house that they would meet the same fate as a murdered garda colleague has been jailed for three years.

A man serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of having explosives in an adapted beer keg has challenged the refusal of the Minister for Justice to grant him enhanced remission.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has ordered the elite ERU (Emergency Response Unit) into Drogheda as part of a crackdown on increasingly violent turf wars between feuding drug gangs.

Gardaí in Drogheda, Co Louth, are investigating more than 70 individual incidents directly related to a feud since last summer, it has emerged.

Gardaí have seized cars, phones and documents in seven searches today.

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People leaving Shannon Airport and others at check-in desks were attacked by a group of armed men and women who forced them back into the terminal and held them hostage.

Three people have been arrested after a garda and a civilian were shot during a planned search of a house in Dublin.

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

A counter terrorism exercise is currently being carried out by An Garda Síochána in Dublin city centre.

The majority of frontline garda detective units are receiving no tactical training in how to deal with terrorist attacks and are not equipped with the firepower to counter them.

The sight of heavily armed men in balaclavas packed inside black Landcruisers gave many a passing pedestrian a startle.

The new armed response unit for Dublin, announced as part of a government package to fight gangland feuding, is not expected to be up and running for at least five to six months.

A man who was arrested at Cork Airport after becoming agitated while requesting flight to Mecca is receiving medical attention.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has ordered the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) and an extra 27 uniformed gardaí into north Louth in response to the murder of Garda Tony Golden.

A Dublin man has settled his High Court action against the Garda Commissioner and State for damages over alleged assault and false imprisonment after the Garda Emergency Response Unit mistakenly raided his flat.

A Dublin man who engaged armed gardaí in a stand-off in the hope that the officers would shoot him dead has been jailed for three years.

Gardaí have arrested a man after an attempted kidnapping and robbery on the North side of Dublin this morning.

A tribunal has ruled that a council foreman who is alleged to have threatened to turn himself into a ‘human fireball’ in a one-man protest had been unfairly dismissed.

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MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

The sentencing of crime boss John Dundon for the murder of Shane Geoghegan has been acclaimed in the city as evidence that gardaí have now mastered the once powerful crime gangs.

Gardaí have confirmed specially-trained officers will be providing sea patrols during the G8 summit in Fermanagh this summer.

Two young men, who made a dramatic escape from garda custody on Wednesday afternoon, were still the subject of a manhunt last night.

A man guilty of attempting an elaborate bank heist represented himself in court today because he “doesn’t want to waste any more public money”.

There are pros and cons to granting full investigative powers to Oireachtas committees, writes Regina Hennelly

A SECRET operation by the Garda anti-gang unit has prevented a likely bomb attack.

ELITE Garda units prevented a possible gangland murder, robbery or kidnapping when they swooped on an armed gang just after midnight yesterday.

STRICT and intense security measures will be in place today for the visit of US President Barack Obama.

Two men have been arrested in Co Kildare in connection with dissident republican activity.

Elite garda officers are using luxury BMWs seized from gangsters to patrol organised crime hotspots, it emerged today.

Attacks launched by dissident republicans are in danger of causing another atrocity on the scale of the Omagh bombing, the North’s police chief signalled today.

Six vehicles, guns and ammunition and components of an explosive device have been seized in an ongoing probe into suspected dissident republican activity, gardaí said today.

AMMUNITION, a firearm and balaclavas have been seized in an anti-dissident operation by armed gardaí which led to the arrest of five men.

GARDAÍ have reportedly cracked a money-laundering operation being run by a Limerick feud gang.

PROVIDING round-the-clock armed protection to witnesses in gang trials is putting a serious strain on Garda resources, Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy said yesterday as he revealed police were targeting 15 major gangs countrywide.

ONE of the most senior figures in the McCarthy Dundon gang, who Gardaí believe was involved in the murder of businessman, Roy Collins, was released from prison at the weekend after completing a sentence for drugs possession.

An armed garda was recovering in hospital tonight from injuries he suffered while arresting suspected gangland criminals in Limerick.

Three men and a woman were arrested and a firearm seized in Limerick today as part of a crackdown on gang crime.

A LIMERICK gangland figure who sparked a major garda alert returned to the country last night following a holiday in Mexico.

The Garda Commissioner is to deploy members of the Emergency Response Unit in Limerick amid fears of increased violence in the city.