One of a group of people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine-extraction laboratory has been refused bail.

A knife-wielding attacker was neutralised by armed gardaí during a simulated multiple-stabbing attack and hostage standoff inside a Cork City nightclub — believed to be the first emergency services exercise of its kind in the country.

Four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory will remain in Garda custody ahead of a court date next week.

Update 7.15pm: A man in his thirties is still being questioned at Mallow Garda Station following a shooting incident in north County Cork.

Aurimas Petraska transformed "cheap" cars into missiles, capable of smashing through secure premises.

Drug gangs in Limerick have been hit hard during a series of garda raids, on the back of the seizure of €170,000 worth of illegal drugs.

A man is receiving medical treatment after he was arrested while brandishing what appeared to be a gun near a creche.

Gardaí chasing a driver who caused the death of his friend in a high-speed crash minutes later had to slow down because of the dangerous speeds involved.

Hundreds of boy racers attracted to Killarney, Co Kerry, for the annual Rally of the Lakes over the public holiday weekend will come in for close Garda attention.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to an attack in Cork which left a woman with serious head and facial injuries.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested following an armed siege at a house in County Cork.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested following an armed siege at a house in Co Cork.

A ballistics expert criticised prosecution evidence about a garda flash-bang grenade as preposterous, requiring the kind of chance that would see one winning the lottery twice in a row

A man has been charged with committing reckless endangerment and criminal damage following a petrol bomb attack on a Waterford house which left three children injured.

A Garda Regional Support Unit member testified in a trial yesterday he was briefed in advance that an accused man was expected to be at the scene of an attempted aggravated burglary.

A man who denied an attempted aggravated burglary while armed with a shotgun was seen at the scene of the crime by an armed member of the Garda Regional Support Unit, a judge and jury was told yesterday.

Gardaí have arrested a 31-year-old man following a carjacking incident in Palmerstown, Dublin.

The lawyer for a man charged with carrying a pump-action shotgun during an attempted aggravated burglary accused a garda of telling great lies in the witness box as the officer said he clearly saw the defendant at the crime scene.

There were dramatic scenes in Cork City last night when gardaí were forced to close a number of streets after a young woman armed with a knife threatened to hurt herself and others as she perched precariously on an apartment block 40ft above a busy road.

A former hotel worker who is alleged to have been involved in the importation of drugs from Spain was refused bail yesterday at Limerick Circuit Court.

Offaly gardaí are continuing to question four men arrested as part of an ongoing operation on organised criminal groups involved in burglary.

Nearly €100,000 worth of cigarettes were seized by customs officers supported by armed gardaí when they stopped a Ford Transit van on the outskirts of Cork City yesterday morning.

A separated father who shot himself in a 4x4 in Drogheda in the early hours of yesterday morning had been questioned by gardaí about an alleged rape.

Gardaí are investigating separate violent incidents which occurred in Cork early yesterday.

Gardaí were last night questioning four people, including a teenage boy, following an alleged incident during which a man was chased through a primary school classroom by at least one other man wielding a weapon.

TWO men were being questioned by gardaí in Cork last night after a high-speed pursuit through the city.

Gardaí investigating an incident which saw a man shot by gardaí in a pub in Cork last month have arrested a man.

A MAN who was shot by gardaí after he entered a Cork pub brandishing a shotgun and threatened staff is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

GARDAÍ shot a man in his 20s in the stomach after he refused to drop a loaded shotgun he was brandishing in a crowded pub.

FEARS are growing of a resumption of Traveller violence in Kerry if some of the people imprisoned for their part in a bitter feud are released for Christmas.

A MAN in his 20s was arrested early yesterday after a shotgun was found in the boot of his car near Castleisland, Co Kerry.

A LIMERICK gangland figure who shot himself on Saturday remained on a life support machine last night.

CORK County Council is to take legal action in an attempt to move on a group of Travellers, some of whom have been involved in a violent feud.

MEMBERS of the Garda Regional Support Unit arrested three men yesterday after an attack on a halting site in west Cork, which is believed to be linked to a continuing Traveller feud in Waterford.