The AGSI has told the Government “not to throw the baby out with the bathwater” in parachuting a police officer from another country in as commissioner.

Alan Shatter prides himself on being a reforming minister who’s not afraid to take on vested interests and to act quickly to sort things out.

AN estimated 516 deaths were prevented as a result of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy during the period 1998-2002.

Firearms were found in a burned-out getaway car used by the killers of two men in south Dublin last night, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said today.