A man has been arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into the possession of fraudulent documents.

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.

A man has been arrested in the UK in connection with the murder of Gareth Hutch in Dublin.

The Garda-led investigation into the funding of international terrorism which led to the arrest and charge of an Irish citizen last week has involved the FBI, Interpol and the London Metropolitan Police, a court has been told.

An Irishman who narrowly escaped being directly caught up in Wednesday’s terror attack in London says he was thinking of the crew of Rescue 116 helicopter when he came onto the scene on Westminster Bridge.

Playing with O’Donovan Rossa’s dynamite and his monstrous reign of terror from 1867 to the mid 1880s, is a very irresponsible policy agenda for this state to pursue. No liberal democracy on this earth would place such an evil man on a pantheon of glory.

The London Metropolitan Police has refused to confirm whether it attended the activation of an alarm at a Hatton Garden safety deposit vault that was raided over the Easter weekend.

A former policeman who is one of three men sought in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea football fans on a Paris Metro train has apologised for his involvement.

Senior figures in the Garda Inspectorate could be in the running for the top job in the Garda Ombudsman following the shock resignation of its chairman Simon O’Brien.

The state pathologist has confirmed that the severed arm of a convicted rapist washed up on Dollymount Strand was cut from the body following death.

As police in Britain continue their probe into the enslavement of three women — one Irish — for 30 years, support groups here have urged greater focus on the potential of slavery in this country.

Children's Minister Frances Fitzgerald has called for the facts to be established into the case of a woman who died in London after travelling there for an abortion.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board is to be briefed on a crunch meeting between the PSNI chief constable and the head of a special unit set up to investigate unsolved Troubles-related murders.

Some 2,000 mourners packed a church in India for the funeral of a nurse found dead after taking a royal hoax call, as her family said they had nearly lost the strength to grieve.

The leader of a €440m transatlantic cocaine trafficking plot which failed because of a fuel mix-up has been jailed for 20 years.

Irish Olympic officials are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to ensure a smooth and controversy-free procession for the Olympic torch when it makes its historic appearance in Ireland this summer.

DUBLIN football fans turned out in their tens of thousands in Merrion Square on Monday night to welcome their All-Ireland heroes and the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), Pat Hickey, is hoping for a repeat crowd to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch Relay on June 6 next year.

will.i.am had to be evacuated from his London hotel tonight overnight after a fire broke out.

Osama bin Laden’s “demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace with human dignity,” President Obama stressed on Sunday night.

GARDAÍ have begun drawing up major security plans for the May visits of US President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth.

A 41-YEAR-OLD man was brought before a special sitting of the District Court in Killarney last night, on 11 charges including alleged rape, alleged sexual assault and alleged attempted rape.

A four-member team from Britain’s Scotland Yard has arrived in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka to help police investigate a bloody mutiny that killed more than 70 people, mostly army officers, two weeks ago.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has been short-listed for the most senior job in the British police forces.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has confirmed that he has applied to be the next head of the London Metropolitan Police.

The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s decision to refuse to extradite a Dublin man wanted in the UK on robbery charges.

ONE of the men on trial in the biggest drugs case in the history of the state had no inkling that drugs were being imported until he saw white packets floating in the sea that morning.

THE New York district attorney who pioneered the city’s widely-praised response to domestic violence has told the Government the same approach can work here.

A POLICEMAN free on bail while waiting to go on trial accused of murdering his wife may have been planning a killing spree, police revealed yesterday.

THE Ulsterman heading up the Jersey childcare probe was once involved in the fight against the IRA on the streets of Belfast.

SEVERAL Irishmen are believed to be among 22 suspected members of a huge international drugs gang arrested by British police yesterday.

AN international manhunt for rogue solicitor, Michael Lynn, is well underway after he again failed to comply with an order to appear before the High Court in Dublin yesterday.

Ciaran Cuffe of the Green Party has demanded An Garda Siochana scrap an allegedly racist rule which bans Sikh officers from wearing a turban on duty.

A functionally illiterate 16-year-old boy, who over the last three years has lived a chaotic life involving heroin addiction, no education and prolonged periods on the streets, has vanished the Dublin Children’s Court heard today.

ONE of the heirs to the Smurfit fortune has died after being found on fire in a London churchyard

FEARS that Ireland is being used as a base for terrorists planning attacks on Britain have increased after it emerged that two Muslims who have been living in Dublin were arrested in Holyhead 11 days ago.

Four people were extradited from Ireland to the United Kingdom last year, a Government report revealed today.

EACH year the BBC broadcasts a televised lecture in memory of the legendary broadcaster Richard Dimbleby which gives a prominent person the opportunity to speak to the nation on an issue of their own choosing.

Police officers in New York shocked by the lack of protection for gardaí are offering to send over their spare anti-stab vests.

The Independent Monitoring Commission has insisted that its report on the £26.5m (€38.5m) Belfast bank heist was truly independent and not based on information provided by the Irish and British authorities.

UK police investigating the murder of a boy whose torso was found in the River Thames two years ago say they are a step closer to bringing charges.

Illusionist David Blaine has vowed “never again” after spending more than a month without food in a glass box over the Thames.

SOME onlookers hurl eggs and golf balls at him, others flash their breasts or bang drums to wake him up in the middle of the night.

The British Government has announced details of the powers and duties of the proposed Independent Monitoring Commission.

A MAN arrested on suspicion of being a member of the Continuity IRA was still being questioned by gardaí in Limerick last night.