The man accused of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was on bail and under curfew at the time of the fatal shooting, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A speedy response by gardaí in Cork city ensured that a tourist robbed of her travel documents on the day she was due to fly out was able to make her flight.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is examining the purchase of lands and homes by a convicted drug dealer along the border.

It came as part of an investigation in relation to the sale and supply of illegal drugs in the Cavan-Monaghan area.

A civilian known in sporting circles is the latest person to be arrested as part of a widening high-level Garda probe into alleged corruption in the force.

Detectives involved in raiding seven premises connected with the suspected sale of contaminated horse meat say that they do not believe that any contaminated meat has been sold in Ireland.

Farms, houses and commercial premises were searched in Kilkenny, Sligo, Westmeath, Sligo and Leitrim this morning.

The gardaí were arrested yesterday in relation to alleged links with a Munster organised crime group.

Latest: A Garda Inspector arrested as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in the force has been released without charge.

A miniature Bronze Age axe has been recovered in Co Limerick by Gardaí and the National Museum of Ireland.

Gardai have been contacted by suspected victims of an international vintage car fraud, who informed investigators they had seen their vehicle in a photograph, circulated by gardai to the media, showed vehicles recovered by gardai in Co Limerick on Tuesday.

Specialist gardaí have pounced on four members of an organised crime gang suspected of deceiving elderly people in the sale of classic vintage cars.

The Garda Ombudsman has confirmed it has not received any complaints in relation to garda behaviour at the Jobstown protest trial.

Over €86.7m will be spent by the Office of Public Works (OPW) on leasing buildings which house government departments and other State agencies this year.

Phone records show a Dublin woman was in contact with a detective garda when she allegedly posted a Valentines card containing a g-string and a bullet to one of the officer’s colleagues, a court has heard.

A woman admitted posting a lewd Valentine’s card and a G-string to a detective garda but denied mailing him a bullet or acting on behalf of his colleagues.

Two employees of the Passport Service in Dublin were arrested yesterday in relation to suspected passport fraud.

A member of staff at the National Library has been arrested over the suspected theft of a large number of books and valuable artifacts.

Two gardaí arrested on suspicion of involvement in an ATM scam risk losing their jobs over sums totalling less than €2,000.

Two Gardaí have been arrested in connection with suspected fraudulent activity.

Two employees at the passport office have been questioned by gardaí over suspected fraud.

Gardaí are investigating a processing plant in Tipperary shut down after inspectors found it was exporting horsemeat under a Czech label which translated as beef.

Yet more popular food products have been withdrawn from supermarket shelves over concerns relating to their contents.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has confirmed it was acting on concerns about the meat trader at the centre of the horse DNA scandal as early as October.

The Agriculture Minister said that significant resources are being deployed to investigate the horse meat controversy.

TROPHY hunters have targeted the recently discovered German U-boat that sank off Roche’s Point in Cork during the First World War.

FIVE men have been arrested as part of a cross-border investigation into a contamination scare in the pork industry which cost pig producers here an estimated €120 million.

Four men were arrested today as part of a cross-border investigation into a contamination scare in the Irish pork industry which cost pig producers an estimated £100m (€120m).

A MAN who got girls of less than 10 years of age to strip at his home in West Cork and then get into sexual poses with him in order to generate child pornography was jailed for six years yesterday.

A gangland criminal shot dead in a suspected tit-for-tat shooting was recently named as an alleged gunman in another murder, it emerged tonight.

ONE of Dublin’s biggest and most violent gangs was targeted yesterday in a massive Garda swoop on more than 50 homes and offices.

FOUR gang members were being questioned yesterday following another large heroin haul.

SEVERAL people are expected to be prosecuted in Ireland as part of an EU investigation into a child pornography network.

The family of a suspected killer who died in garda custody today branded as "unlawful" delays to a public hearing into the death.

THE State is putting disproportionate resources intoinvestigating allegations of illegal fishing rather than beefing up its fight against cocaine traffickers, it was claimed yesterday.

An armed criminal who told gardaí arresting him that they had him "banged to rights" has been given 10 years in consecutive jail sentences by Judge Donagh McDonagh at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

GARDAÍ last night said they did not expect to find the remains of missing woman Fiona Sinnott in an excavation of a site in Co Wexford.

THERE was a 30% increase in the number of suspected money laundering transactions last year, according to new statistics.

A GARDA investigation targeting professional armed robbers was almost cancelled last week due to a shortage of gardaí.

SIX out of 10 DVDs, videos and PlayStation games being bought and sold in Ireland are now counterfeit, according to industry estimates.

A former Dublin garda, who was due to be sentenced on child porn charges today, had his case adjourned for two weeks.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) is to investigate six people arrested in connection with a massive E500 million drug seizure.

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.