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It cost the State more than €27,000 per week last year to provide security to US military aircraft and personnel passing through Shannon airport.

Gardaí are understood to be monitoring the reaction of radicals here to the bombing attacks in Brussels.

Environment Minister Alan Kelly has said the person who sent a suspect package with a death threat to his constituency office is a “scumbag” who should be tracked down by gardaí.

IT seems pointless, and probably wrong too, to try to establish a hierarchy of atrocity inflicted on this small island during the three decades of terror that preceded the Good Friday peace agreement.

It is has cost the State at least €300,000 to provide round-the-clock Garda security at a Traveller accommodation building project in Cork City.

Gardaí are providing round-the-clock security at a Traveller accommodation building site after claims of threats and intimidation directed at workers on the scheme.

A blood test that can detect more than 600 hereditary diseases before conception will shortly be available north of the border.

Almost €1m this year will be spent on Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s personal advisers, assistants, and secretaries.

The mayor of Limerick has described the departure of gangland crime victim Steve Collins and his family from the city, as a “sad day for Irish democracy”.

GARDAÍ are drawing up a detailed security plan for a book signing by former British prime minster Tony Blair in Dublin on Saturday.

The hearing of an application by Catherine Nevin as part of her attempt to have her murder conviction declared a miscarriage of justice resumed before the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

AMID armed Garda security, a 29-year-old Limerick man was remanded in custody at a special sitting of the District Court last night charged with the murder of bread man Daniel Treacy last week.

US TROOPS en route to Iraq said they were overwhelmed by the welcome at Cork Airport after an unexpected weekend landing.

The hearing of convicted murderer Catherine Nevin's bid to gain access to documents which she claims are highly relevant to her application to have her conviction declared a miscarriage of justice will resume next March.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has granted convicted murderer Catherine Nevin permission to attend court next month for the hearing of an application related to her bid to have her conviction for the murder of her husband Tom declared a miscarriage of justice.

CONVICTED murderer Catherine Nevin has begun proceedings to get the DPP or Garda commissioner to disclose whether the three men who gave evidence at her trial were state informers.

A delegation allied to loyalist paramilitaries in the North has met Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin tonight.

Kettles, fridges and microwaves have been confiscated from gardaí working on sentry duty at a high-profile station, it emerged today.