The Kinahan drug cartel is a main driver in the surge of cocaine coming into Europe and Ireland’s middle- and high-income earners are “fuelling” the trade here, garda sources have said.

Gardaí have arrested 24 people under emergency anti-gang laws within the last year.

Gardaí believe that a man shot dead in north Dublin this afternoon is an Iranian national and suspected hitman for a major organised crime gang.

Gardaí are investigating two gangland murders, both involving young men, in north Dublin in less than a day.

A solicitor who was working in Gerald Kean's office when it was visited by officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau in March 2016 has told a High Court jury she was "horrified" by a newspaper article concerning that visit.

There has been a surge in the number of prisoners put on protection for their own safety, with the sharpest rises in Mountjoy Prison and Cloverhill Remand Prison.

Europol, the EU police agency, wants experts from the Criminal Assets Bureau to help set up a specialist unit to target the finances of crime bosses across Europe.

Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired at a house in Finglas in Dublin last night.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is leading a major operation targeting a criminal “unknown” suspected of laundering the proceeds of the Kinahan crime cartel.

In excess of €500m worth of drugs have been seized by European law enforcement agencies since the start of the year, reflecting a substantial increase in trafficking across the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Gardaí in Dublin are dealing with more than 500 death threats.

Gardaí in Dublin are dealing with 522 “live” threats to life, with 11 of them assessed as “critical”.

A busted “backyard” drug factory linked to the Kinahan crime cartel was capable of producing up to 7,000 ecstasy pills every hour, gardaí believe.

An estimated €250,000 in cash that was seized as part of an Irish-Australian police operation into drug trafficking was found literally stuffed inside the mattress of a bed.

The head of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has said that raids on nearly 40 homes and businesses “marks a significant development” in its investigation into the notorious Kinahan crime cartel.

The numbers of community gardaí have been axed by almost 40% in the last seven years and continue to fall in many divisions.

Detectives are investigating if the latest gangland murder is linked to the Kinahan crime cartel.

Key players in the Kinahan crime cartel will be brought before the courts in the near future, Dublin’s top garda has said.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has conducted searches targeting the purchase of properties by an associate of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Gardaí say the Kinahan crime cartel is “running out of people to do their work” after an international operation resulted in 13 arrests in Ireland and the Netherlands and the seizure of an estimated €10m worth of drugs.

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The publishers and authors of a book about the Kinahan crime cartel have apologised in the High Court to a Dublin man and stated he has no association with the Hutch or Kinahan gangs.

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.

Ireland has the ninth highest number of financial transactions linked to money laundering or terrorist financing in the European Union, according to a new report.

Ireland has the ninth highest number of financial transactions linked to money laundering or terrorist financing in the European Union, according to a new report.

A Dublin man who was extradited from the UK to be charged with the murder of Gareth Hutch in a shooting last year will be tried in the Special Criminal Court.

A major revamp of the Garda Síochána's security and firearms operations was instituted yesterday.

Gardaí have scored another success against the Kinahan crime cartel after they arrested a suspected hit squad member after he landed off a flight at Dublin Airport.

A man has been arrested at Dublin Airport in connection with a plot to kill a member of the Hutch gang.

A man has been extradited from the UK and charged with the murder of Gareth Hutch in Dublin's north inner city.

A 39-year-old woman has been sent forward for trial to the Special Criminal Court accused of the murder of Gareth Hutch who was shot dead outside his home in Dublin, writes Tom Tuite.

Applications brought by six people allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime organisation to have their legal costs covered by the State in proceedings against the Criminal Assets Bureau have been dismissed by the High Court.

A bank account containing around €200,000 has been frozen after a series of CAB raids in Dublin today.

Garda sources claim they repeatedly warned a man who survived a Kinahan cartel murder attempt on Wednesday to stay out of the city, but that these warnings were ignored.

LATEST: Superintendent Finbarr Murphy from Ballymun Garda Station made has made appeal and appeal for witnesses to a shooting at a Topaz station on Clonshaugh Road, Dublin today.

Gardaí have continued their crackdown on the Kinahan crime cartel with the arrest of a man in Wexford.

Officers seized documents including a ledger of cash payments and discovered more than €300,000 in cash in Thursday's raid.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sent a file to the DPP in relation to six senior associates of the Kinahan crime cartel for suspected money-laundering offences.

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Dutch police are examining if CCTV cameras may have captured a botched murder attempt by a four-man British-Irish gang in one of Amsterdam’s most popular public squares.

Two Irishmen, including a senior member of the Kinahan cartel, are among four people being questioned after a suspected botched murder attempt at one of Amsterdam’s busiest squares.

The Kinahan-Hutch feud is suspected of fueling a massive rise in prisoners in Mountjoy Jail seeking solitary confinement for their own protection.

Gardaí are drafting a policing plan to protect family events marking the anniversary this Sunday of the murder of Kinahan cartel lieutenant David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.

A Dutch man who was arrested in Dublin during a garda swoop on an alleged Kinahan gang property should be sent back to Holland to face prosecution for assault, attempted murder and money laundering, the High Court has heard.