Garda Commissioner Drew Harris described the operation as "a long campaign of attrition."

The hearing into what is set to be a full appeal by two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae and a friend against conviction for assault, has been listed.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said it is not a matter for him to decide whether it is appropriate for someone with a recent assault conviction to sit on a county’s most senior policing committee.

Gardaí say they have had no official complaints regarding a reported ramming incident on the northside of Cork city this week.

A screen is to be erected to prevent a tragedy because drivers are ‘rubbernecking’ at a fire-damaged shopping centre in Cork City.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been told more needs to be done to bolster permanent garda numbers in the city and county.

Cork city is in the grips of an epidemic. Heroin use is rampant on the streets, with users taking the drug in the open, not caring who can see them. However, many are trying to get out of the habit, writes Liz Dunphy

“I was in prison for 20 years, for selling heroin and robbing a bank. I’ve been in all the prisons in this country. I’ve seen a few father and sons in there, the most in Mountjoy.

Good police work involves gardaí using their own discretion, including “squaring” minor prosecutions for members of the public who gardaí may depend on when investigating more serious crimes, a former garda has claimed.

A new unit manned by specially trained gardaí to investigate sexual crimes and domestic violence is to be established in the West Cork region.

A man was left with a blade embedded in his side after 'bumping' into some youths in broad daylight in Co Donegal.

Fianna Fáil have retained the top positions in the new Kerry County Council, with support from Fine Gael and Labour and three independents.

A Joint Policing Committee (JPC) is demanding answers as to why, more than two years after a Government announcement, no progress has been made to replace a garda station which has been described as one of the worst in the country.

A feud which erupted after a First Holy Communion and continues to involve two sectors of the Kerry Traveller community remains highly volatile, the county’s main policing body was told yesterday.

The largest Joint Policing Committee (JPC) in the country is to ask the insurance industry to provide discounts to customers who detail descriptions, makes, models, and serial numbers of valuable property in a logbook.

A suspected criminal gang of heartless burglars targeting the homes of people mourning the deaths of teen road crash victims, Oisín Cahill and Darragh Killeen was intercepted by Gardai last week.

All took place in Killarney, amid sharp increase in Kerry break-ins

A former garda detective has warned that anyone found to be keeping information from gardaí investigating the murder of a 78-year old Limerick widow faces possible prosecution in the criminal courts.

LATEST: A Fianna Fáil Councillor for Sligo Town has said members of the Garda Representative Association had "no other choice" than to engage in action over the serious health and safety issues at their station.

Drug seizures in Dublin's north-east inner city have spiked by 160% in less than a year.

A school in Dublin is fighting the expansion of a nearby drug and alcohol rehab centre while the Junior Health Minister is defending plans for a proposed supervised drug injecting centre..

Shannon Airport is a soft touch for terrorists, according to claims by a Limerick councillor who used to work at the airport x-raying passengers luggage.

There are about five heroin gangs in Cork, but they are not very professional and are mainly users who sell the Class A drugs to feed their own habit, it has been claimed.

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.

Cork has three garda chief superintendents but, under new guidelines issued by the departments of justice and environment, only two will in future be allowed to sit on the county’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC).

A senior garda has tried to allay community leaders’ fears that a tourist hotspot in Cork will not have its Garda station closed following the transfer of its sole sergeant.

Cork County Council is committing €1m towards footpath restoration projects.

NOBODY in Cork is denying that heroin is gaining a steadier foothold in the city.

One of the country’s most notorious websites advertising sex for sale has seen the number of prostitutes it offers increase by 50% in the space of just three years.

Serious assaults, public order offences and drunkenness are down significantly in Cork City and county. And senior gardaí believe it’s due to more officers on the streets at peak times.

A fishing club says it will not restock a Co Cork reservoir until bylaws are introduced to prevent Eastern European anglers, living locally, from killing their fish.

A long-serving county councillor yesterday succeeded in having a drink-driving conviction overturned.

A serving county councillor who had headed a Joint Policing Committee was yesterday convicted of a drink driving charge.

A West Cork town is planning to install €50,000 of CCTV cameras in an initiative to ease fears of its higher-than-average elderly population.

The chance discovery of a submerged car may solve the mystery disappearance 22 years ago of a well-known businessman and former county councillor.

I refer to your report (Sept 4) of a meeting of the Joint Policing Committee to discuss student behaviour at which landlords were criticised for not attending; and also clearly blamed for some of the problems.

The governing bodies of UCC and CIT are to be asked to attend the next meeting of Cork City’s Joint Policing Committee to answer allegations that they are not doing enough to counter the drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour of their students.

RESIDENTS in a normally crime-free town are trying to come to terms with a fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old man.

FESTIVAL organisers may have to pay for more garda protection at such events if they want to prevent the type of violence which broke out in a normally very peaceful village in Co Cork last weekend.

TRADERS in Cork city have been encouraged to attend a special meeting tomorrow to discuss security and policing.

Three people have been remanded in custody in connection with assaulting three gardaí in Cork city yesterday evening.