Gardaí are investigating possible links between a gang arrested in Kildare and a spike in burglaries in Cork City.

Gardaí fear a vicious gang will continue to kill the remaining members of a rival outfit after a second person was shot dead outside a west Dublin shopping centre.

Latest: A man suspected to have been involved in the drugs trade and other serious crime is being linked to the disappearance of Trevor Deely 17 years ago.

Amid scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of a music festival, tents, sleeping bags, and items of clothing were found abandoned across the sensitive dunes area on Ardnahinch beach in east Cork after the weekend party.

Update: Tributes are being paid this afternoon to a Longford teenager who lost his life while swimming with around 20 others in the River Shannon.

Gardaí are hoping to reduce deaths and serious injury from domestic and sexual violence with the introduction of specialised units manned by highly trained detectives, in Cork, Louth, and Dublin.

Gardaí raided a brothel and found Western Union money receipts for €18,000 which were sent back to Romania in a three-week period.

Serious risks to children remained at a Tusla Midlands service a year after it was excoriated for not knowing if it had acted on 900 cases of at-risk children notified to it by gardaí.

Gardaí assured the safety of innocent bystanders when “potential assassins” aligned with the Kinahan crime cartel were arrested en route to carrying out their hit during the Ireland-Belgium Euro 2016 game on Saturday.

Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority have both launched investigations into the death of a 28-year-old man on the family farm in Co Cork yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí suspect dissident republican Michael Barr was shot dead because it was believed by the Kinahan cartel he provided a “safe house” to one of the gunmen in the Regency Hotel attack.

Gardaí are investigating reports a gunman shot dead an innocent homeless man in a reckless attempt to murder his intended target.

Gardaí are investigating an early-morning sexual attack on a woman in a Dublin suburb.

A majority of Spaniards would favour a coalition government led by the Socialist party and market-friendly newcomer Ciudadanos, according to a poll published by El País yesterday as Spain’s political deadlock continues.

Gardaí are to investigate claims that a Nama official sought and received a €15,000 bribe in a bag from a construction company so it could be allowed leave the agency.

Gardaí in Limerick have identified the gunman suspected of being involved in the fatal shooting in which a motorcycle enthusiast died last Saturday.

Property Partners Gallivan say properties like 1, Cnoc na Rí at Ballydowney in Killarney, Co Kerry, are becoming hard to find.

Garda-organised crime units are to crack down on gangs dealing in anabolic steroids when the products are added to the list of controlled drugs, such as cocaine and heroin.

Gardaí are planning further undercover anti-heroin operations in Cork City following Operation Emerson which led to the recent arrest of 23 street dealers.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a highly organised and daring raid on a power equipment shop in the centre of a mid-Kerry village in the early hours of Sunday.

May I congratulate Liadh Ní Riada, and the other Irish working in Brussels, on a great deal for Irish fishermen. 

UPDATE: Louise Scannell has been found safe and well.

Gardaí are investigating a fire which destroyed a house in a Traveller accommodation development in Clare.

Three men remain in custody and several of the 30 vehicles seized by gardaí during a major clampdown at the annual Rally of the Lakes in Killarney remain impounded.

Gardaí have suffered so much from pay cuts some are sleeping in cars because they cannot afford to drive home, the annual conference for rank-and-file members has heard.

Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan has said that investigations are under way into the harassment of gardaí on social media after middle-ranking officers said that colleagues were being targeted by some anti-water charge protestors.

Gardaí have been cleared of any wrongdoing following the death of a man after his arrest in Cork just over three years ago.

Gardaí in Kerry are appealing to the public for information after an armed robbery by masked men at Tarbert Post Office, a village on the Shannon estuary, north of Listowel.

West Cork initiative an attempt to bridge policing gaps created by recessionary manpower shortage

The deadpan hilarity of the An Garda Síochana Twitter account continues to be a source of much amusement.

Members of the gardaí, Cork fire brigade, and security personnel had to cordon off part of the city centre when a drunken teenager climbed on to the roof of Debenham’s department store in the early hours of the morning.

Gardaí were yesterday checking CCTV cameras in a bid to track down a hit-and-run motorist who struck a six-year-old girl at a pedestrian crossing.

Nearly €15m worth of jewellery and €7.8m in cash was stolen from Irish homes in the past year. In total, property worth €35.1m was stolen between July 2013 and July 2014.

Two people were killed in separate road crashes in Cork and Carlow yesterday.

Gardaí have interviewed more than 20 people as part of their investigation into a mass brawl at a GAA underage hurling match, which resulted in three young men receiving hospital treatment.

Seizures of ecstasy jumped in 2013, while hauls of cannabis and cocaine fell significantly, official figures show.