An Garda Síochána is going through what is thought to be its biggest ever management clear-out with around a fifth of its senior officers leaving this year.

An Garda Síochána is going through what is thought to be the biggest clear-out of senior officers in its history.

Ten people were arrested and a total of 14 people are due to be removed from the country on foot of two separate operations by gardaí and other state agencies.

10 people have been arrested as part of an operation targeting illegal immigration and work permits.

A spokesperson said the arrested man was a serving member of An Garda Síochána but has since retired.

Gardaí have arrested two men today as part of Operation Mombasa.

A Romanian man and woman have been arrested at Dublin airport following a joint intelligence operation.

The eight men who were discovered hiding on a bulk cargo ship in Waterford yesterday have been deported to the last country of origin.

Twenty three people who had been served with Deportation Orders were removed from the State this morning.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has seized a range of high-value assets from a cross border group believed to be linked to the Essex smuggling deaths of 39 people.

It came as part of an investigation into a group suspected of being involved in various international smuggling activities.

The civil rights bodies claim that there has been an increase in passport checks, which they said follows assurances from both governments that there would be no return to a hard border.

Cork Airport has published a detailed guide to help passengers understand how their travel plans will be affected in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Three gang members have been jailed in the UK for helping to smuggle people into the country via Ireland.

Al Hamza Food Ltd, trading as Bar BQ Tonight on Lower Clanbrassil Street, pleaded guilty in June at Dublin District Court to breaching the Employment Permits Act and Organisation of Working Time Act. The case was finalised today.

A Pakistani man, who wants to marry his French girlfriend and who has a wedding date set for early next month, has been granted an injunction against the Minister for Justice restraining his deportation to Pakistan.

Two Door Cinema Club were playing at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Al Hamza Food Ltd, trading as Bar BQ tonight on Lower Clanbrassil Street, pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to breaching the Employment Permits Act and Organisation of Working Time Act.

A new dedicated immigration facility at Dublin Airport is due to open in the coming months.

A young Pakistani man was unlawfully arrested for deportation because it happened a day before before a final decision refusing him residency on the basis of his father's "marriage" to a Romanian woman, an EU citizen, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is examining the beneficial owners of a home in North Cork and another in South Tipperary as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation.

The Civil Registration Service investigated 41 weddings last year as suspected “marriages of convenience”, with 20 ceremonies ultimately prevented from proceeding.

As many as one in four taxi drivers stopped at recent illegal immigration checkpoints are suspected of being in a sham marriage.

Seven people have been arrested in a British-Irish operation targeting a criminal gang suspected of smuggling Georgian nationals into Britain through Ireland.

Two Bangladeshi men are believed to have paid €15,000 each to Lithuanian women in a suspected sham-marriage scam.

An Aer Lingus worker who helped smuggle illegal immigrants into the country has been jailed for four years.

The number of people deported from the country fell significantly last year, according to new figures.

Technical examinations are being conducted on two mobile phones and at an abandoned house in a bid to determine the motivation behind a knife rampage by an Egyptian teenager in Dundalk that left a young Japanese man dead and two Irish men injured.

A new round-the-clock intelligence unit to bolster Ireland’s border security will be a multi-agency body, including specialist gardaí.

Gardaí arrested a man at a car valeting premises in Cork for having no passport or national ID yesterday.

A judge has granted legal aid to an Aer Lingus worker accused of helping illegal immigrants enter the country.

A sharp reduction in the number of marriages in Ireland last year between EU citizens from outside Ireland and a non-EU citizen is being attributed to the introduction of legislation designed to crack down on marriages of convenience.

An Aer Lingus worker charged with organising people smuggling at Dublin Airport has been further remanded in custody pending the preparation of a book of evidence.

A man arrested in Limerick in connection with the London attacks was working as a chef using a PPS number issued in the name of murdered terrorist Rachid Redouane.

A probe is underway into the background of London Bridge attacker Rachid Redouane and his connection with Ireland after the discovery of documentation which suggested he spent time here in Ireland.

Two men went on trial at Cork District Court yesterday on charges arising from an investigation of alleged use of illegal migrant workers in the fishing industry.

An Aer Lingus worker charged with organising human trafficking at Dublin Airport has been remanded on bail pending directions from the DPP.

A judge has today deferred ruling on whether fee legal aid will be granted to an Aer Lingus worker charged in connection with organised human trafficking at Dublin Airport.

A nurse in Dublin, who fraudulently claimed almost €10,000 in children’s allowance payments while her son and daughter were living in India, has been spared a jail sentence.