Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

A pedestrian aged in his 30s has died after he was knocked down by a Garda patrol car in Co Louth overnight.

It has emerged the 26-year-old driver of a car that drove into three elderly pedestrians in Parteen in Co Clare on Thursday was on bail at the time of the incident.

A teenager put the middle finger of both hands up to gardaí and then threw stones at them, flashed his backside and threatened that he would rape their wives.

An off-duty garda received life-changing brain injuries from an unprovoked punch to the head when on a night out with his new wife in Limerick, a court has heard.

Gardaí on duty near a bridge by the South Ring Rd in Cork saw a man take a long knife from the side of his pants as if he was drawing a sword and throw it over the side of the bridge.

An East Clare farmer was banned from driving for four years after refusing to provide a blood specimen because the doctor designated to take the sample was black.

A Kildare man has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the violent sexual attack on a young woman who took her own life a year later.

A Polish mechanic has lost his claim to a 4 x 4 vehicle he bought “in good faith” on the Done Deal website — but which turned out to be stolen.

The son of a Fianna Fáil TD had to be subdued by gardaí with a shot from a taser gun when he violently resisted arrest after driving at speed through a pedestrian crossing that was in use at the time.

Three men remain in Garda custody in Longford this morning, in connection with an incident which saw a Garda Patrol car and two private vehicles rammed yesterday evening.

Three teenagers were arrested today after separate pipe bomb and shotgun attacks linked to feuding drugs gangs.

A seriously ill drug addict whose concealed syringe pricked two gardaí attempting to arrest her has received a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A NIGHT out among friends ended in the death of a 23-year-old woman, following a car crash on the way home, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee has heard.

Two men are due in court in Dublin this morning in connection with an incident in which a Garda patrol car was rammed.

A car occupied by four men accused of IRA membership was chased and stopped by a Garda patrol in Co Donegal last year, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

A talented sportsman with a promising future who turned to drink and drugs after dropping out of school has been given a two-year sentence for throwing a petrol bomb at a Garda patrol car two years ago.

A teenager whose dangerous driving resulted in five car accidents, one involving the Garda patrol car that was chasing him, has been given three years' detention at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 47-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday given a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of his brother, near Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, on December 17, 2006.

A 19-year-old male pedestrian has been injured after being struck by a Garda patrol car in Dublin.

A HUGE Garda operation was mounted in the Southill Estate in Limerick yesterday following Sunday’s sniper attack on two detectives while they patrolled the estate. One bullet hit their unmarked car when a gunman opened fire from a concealed position.

GUNMEN opened fire yesterday after they were stopped by gardaí in Dublin.

A man has been arrested following the ramming of a Garda patrol car in Dundalk.

A son of a former Sinn Féin Dáil candidate has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with an incident in which shots were fired at a Garda patrol car.

An inquest is to due to hear today how a pensioner was fatally injured when knocked down by a Garda patrol car.

A teenager who threw a glass bottle at a Garda patrol car, and missed, was today given the benefit of the Probation Act.

NIAMH (not her real name) was just 11 years old when she saw her newborn baby being stabbed to death with a knitting needle.

A man has died in a car crash close to where a gang of robbers hijacked a vehicle, it has emerged.

A Garda patrol jeep has been rammed by a stolen car in Clondalkin in west Dublin.

An attempt to steal a valuable mare from the grounds of Dublin’s annual horse show was thwarted when a passing Garda patrol spotted a teenage boy riding the animal bareback.