A pregnant political activist has been charged with assaulting a garda during Wednesday’s massive Irish Water demonstration in Dublin.

A pregnant political activist has been charged with assaulting a garda during yesterday's massive Irish Water demonstration in Dublin.

A homeless man will be given protection in prison after being charged with the rape of two young girls who were lured away from a children’s birthday party.

The word “slap” triggered a chain of events that saw a woman slapping a garda across the face because she mistakenly thought that the guard had referred to her as a slapper.

A garda told an inquest yesterday that “reasonable” force was used to restrain a naked man who had a stress-related heart attack after being handcuffed.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor — described by a retired garda as “the most arrogant man I ever encountered” — was yesterday convicted of being drunk and a danger, being threatening, abusive, or insulting, and carrying a knife.

The local parish priest in Sean Quinn's hometown in Co Cavan went to visit the bankrupt businessman in prison last night.

A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to a last supper and a final pint with his dutiful son.

A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to his last supper and one final pint with his dutiful son.

I am extremely disappointed that the permanent high visibility garda presence of the high visibility garda van on the traffic island on O’Connell Street in Dublin, opposite the GPO, seems to have been only a temporary publicity stunt to give temporary reassurance to those of us who work around the area, as well as to shoppers and tourists.

Two violent criminal cousins were at large last night in Limerick after escaping from Garda custody while being brought to Limerick prison from the local district court.

WHAT seemed like a sequel to John B Keane’s play The Field played out on a thistle-pocked patch of land in west Limerick yesterday under the watchful eye of a force of gardaí.

ONE of the gardaí on trial for allegedly assaulting a man on the street in Waterford took to the witness box yesterday to deny he used “unnecessary force” when restraining the alleged victim.

AT last!

THE release of protesting Thomas Cook workers from incarceration was greeted with relief last night.

The Garda Ombudsman today launched an investigation into the death of a man while he was being arrested.

The High Court has awarded €15,000 in damages to a garda dog handler after finding that his deafness as a result of "constant barking" from garda dogs under his control.

A man who barricaded himself into FAI headquarters earlier this afternoon has given himself up.

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

ONE of the country’s best-known meteorologists, Evelyn Cusack, has been banned from driving for two years after being convicted of driving while over twice the legal alcohol limit last month.