People leaving Shannon Airport and others at check-in desks were attacked by a group of armed men and women who forced them back into the terminal and held them hostage.

The Department of Justice is to be split but will remain under one minister, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed.

A Cork Garda who was shot at multiple times by a gunman after stopping his van at a checkpoint, said she was “honoured” to receive a Silver Scott Medal for “exceptional courage and bravery” after she tried to disarm the man, before he took his own life.

The widow of hero garda Tony Golden, who was shot dead two years ago while trying to protect a woman from her abusive partner, has accepted a medal for bravery on his behalf.

Almost €4m of taxpayers' money was spent by justice chiefs on a building that was never used.

GARDA Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has thus far managed to hold on to her job, despite a litany of failings within the force. 

A member of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has welcomed confirmation that the EU anti-fraud agency OLAF has launched a full investigation into the use of European funds at the Garda Training College in Templemore.

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In a different context, the garda commissioner might claim she is being harrassed by the law.

The Public Accounts Committee will hear from more senior Gardaí today, as it continues its probe into financial irregularities at the Garda Training College in Templemore.

The civilian head of human resources in An Garda Siochána, John Barrett, who found himself in conflict with the Garda Commissioner, has stepped down as the force’s representative on the Policing Authority’s Ethics committee.

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The Vice Chair of the Public Accounts Committee is calling on the fraud squad to launch an investigation into financial irregularities at the Garda training college.

The possibility of a historic split of Ireland’s security and policing systems could be included as part of the Government’s imminent root and branch review of the gardaí.

Two previous Garda commissioners were informed of concerns about the lack of financial controls at the Garda Training College in Templemore as far back as 2008.

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I receive a lot of correspondence from the victims of sexual and domestic violence.

Firefighters in Cork county are responding in less than 10 minutes to one in three fires.

The head of the Garda Representative Association has strongly hinted its 10,400 members will consider some sort of industrial action if they are not given a negotiating role at planned pay talks between unions and the government.

The Bell family have been serving and protecting the public for 150 years, and yesterday two more members of the family’s fourth generation graduated as gardaí.

A Garda who was shot and left for dead in New Orleans is “looking forward” to getting back to work and is “hopeful” of returning home in Ireland next week.

A garda who was shot twice and left for dead on a street in New Orleans is looking forward to getting back to work and said he was hopeful of returning home in Ireland next week.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has promised that the Garda Training College in Templemore will not be closed again.

Elber Twomey, whose entire family was killed by a car crash, has been honoured by the Road Safety Authority for her road safety campaign.

Elber Twomey considers her inability to remember the car crash that wiped out her family as a blessing.

Campaigner Elber Twomey, who lost her family when a suicidal driver ploughed his vehicle into their car in Devon two years ago, has met with the assistant Garda commissioner to discuss training for recruits to the force to deal with such events.

Huge personal loss and tragedy befell Irish women Elber Twomey, Roseann Brennan, and Una Butler — and each has turned unimaginable horror and heartache into heroic virtue as they launch individual campaigns for safer roads and suicide prevention.

A woman who lost her husband, son, and unborn daughter when their car was rammed by a suicidal taxi driver is to help gardaí to train to deal with suicidal people.

Gardaí face the risk of a raft of civil actions as members are not properly trained to use batons and pepper sprays.

It is reported senior members of the force are due to attend meetings at the Garda training college in County Tipperary tomorrow.

Sinn Féin will bring a private members motion to the Dáil next week calling for an independent inquiry into allegations of bugging at the Garda Ombudsman Commission.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has confirmed Garda recruitment will recommence today with an estimated 300 posts being offered.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

Members of the Garda Síochána are seldom accused of stealing — but the young garda who joined in the rocking session at Mitchelstown’s Indiependence festival can certainly be accused of stealing the show.

The majority of motorists believe the number of gardaí policing the roads has fallen in the past year and have criticised the worsening driving conditions.

Frontline gardaí are to demand an independent police authority, to remove political influence from a force which they maintain is being stripped of its power to protect the public and tackle crime.

A month or so before the London Olympics, Billy Walsh travelled down to the Garda Training College in Templemore for a coaching course with a difference.

The organisation representing rank-and-file gardaí has called on Justice Minister Alan Shatter to recruit members immediately to the 13,000-strong force.

The popular garda involved in a tragic shooting at the weekend has died at Kerry General Hospital.

Heartbroken relatives of the garda critically injured in a tragic shooting incident in Tralee, Co Kerry, gathered at his bedside late last night to hold a poignant prayer service.

There are not enough gardaí left to police the State “efficiently and effectively” because the force has suffered unprecedented retirements and is getting no recruits due to an embargo.