There have been dramatic increases in the level of burglaries in many regions in the past year, with incidents of crime up over a third in Kildare and parts of Dublin.

Overall crime levels fell by almost 2% last year, according to official Garda statistics, but crime rates actually increased in five counties, including Dublin.

Cavan and Monaghan have the highest rate of ownership of legally-held weapons in the State.

Gardaí are warning boat owners to protect their valuable outboard motors after a spate of thefts in the southwest by a highly professional gang, who it’s believed are smuggling them abroad for resale.

An estimated 56 staff — half gardaí and half civilians — are being recruited to run offices dedicated to victim services around the country.

An umbrella group of victims’ organisations has warned Ireland is to breach this November’s deadline for full implementation of an EU directive on the rights of victims of crime.

Coming less than a week after the Paris terror attack, investigators are under pressure to find out who was behind the incident at one of Ireland’s best known workplaces, reports Cormac O’Keeffe

The Department of Justice has been in the firing line for months, but worse may be to come for the civil servants, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

The head of the Department of Justice, Brian Purcell, will keep his €200,000-a-year salary when he leaves the position following a report on how his department was run.

The Department of Justice is closed and secretive and requires "fundamental and sustained organisational and cultural change", a high-level report has concluded.

Probationer gardaí with little experience of investigations were ‘hung out to dry’ by Garda management as, it has been claimed.

The number of motorists caught speeding so far this year is way up on last year, new Garda figures released in advance of the annual bank holiday clampdown show.

Sligo and Leitrim are the only two counties to have recorded an increase in general crime levels over the past year.

You are most likely to be burgled in Louth, mugged or hijacked in Dublin, sexually assaulted in Limerick, shot or beaten in Waterford, and encounter someone drunk and disorderly in Kerry, according to an analysis of the latest crime data.

A legal challenge by shooting enthusiasts to the Garda refusal to grant them licences for restricted firearms has been settled.

USE of the new Garda telecommunications system, Tetra, led to the fast apprehension of three men following an attempted raid on an ATM, in Castleisland, in Co Kerry, early on Saturday.

Over 2,000 complaints were made by members of the public against gardaí last year.

Cormac O’Keeffe reports on a significant rise in gun-related crime across the country since 2003.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is to link up with counterparts throughout Europe in an international crackdown on organised crime, the Government announced today.

Smashing organised crime, drugs and defeating terrorism are the top policing priorities set out by the Government for next year.

Dozens of garda checkpoints will be placed on roads across the country this Bank Holiday weekend in a bid to avoid a spate of crashes, it was confirmed today.

Statements from a number of local criminals were used as evidence in a bid to frame a Donegal publican for the murder of cattle dealer Richie Barron, it was claimed today.