Latest: A fourth person has been arrested by police investigating the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a lorry in Essex.

Searches were carried out in a joint operation at the weekend involving members of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and the UK’s National Crime Agency.

Three men were arrested in what was an joint operation between Gardaí and the UK's National Crime Agency.

The 15-year-old’s body was identified by the Quoirin family today, hours after it was discovered following a large-scale search operation.

Around 90 rescue workers involved in the search for missing Irish teenager Nora Quoirin will today focus their efforts on the surrounding jungle and mountain area near the Dusan resort, where she was last seen.

Nóra, the 15-year-old daughter of an Irish-French couple that lives in London, was reported missing on Sunday, August 4.

The teenager has been missing in Malaysia for more than a week.

Gardaí suspect that a major haul of cannabis herb – 98kgs in weight – confiscated in west Dublin was about to be driven across the border.

Criminals on both sides of the border could benefit from the increased difficulty, post-Brexit, of EU and British law enforcement agencies in locating and extraditing them, Britain’s national police body has said.

Electrical goods retailer Dixons-Carphone has said none of its online customers in Ireland have been impacted by a widening of a cyber attack on the company.

A schoolgirl who sparked an international hunt after she left the UK for Poland has been found.

A prolific paedophile who encouraged the rape of a two-year-old boy fitted secret cameras in a public toilet for "sexual gratification", a UK court heard.

A Heathrow security worker who was arrested in an airport toilet after £700,000 worth of cocaine was seized has been charged with conspiring to import drugs.

UK ministers have confirmed in the House of Lords that an investigation is under way into claims that UK banks could be unwittingly linked to a corruption scandal in South Africa.

The so-called bad bank set up to clear toxic property loans from five banks is to wipe out its €30 billion debt three years ahead of schedule.

Police and justice chiefs in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have warned about the "very serious challenge" a post-Brexit border across the island could have on policing.

A former law lecturer who went on the run from court in England before a jury found him guilty of downloading indecent images of children has been sentenced in his absence.

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.

Twelve people from the UK have been arrested after police smashed an alleged drug dealing ring in the Spanish holiday resort of Magaluf.

A man in England who imported a child doll to have sex with has been spared prison.

A computer repair technician who used a social media site aimed at young teenagers in order to befriend girls and sexually abuse them over the internet has been jailed in England.

A man was arrested and later released by officers investigating the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) sale.

An online blackmailer whose Northern Irish teenage victim later took his own life has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Latest: The victim of a modern slavery gang was ordered to dig his own grave and told "that's where you're going" if he did not sign a bogus work contract.

More than 70 registered sex offenders from the UK have been refused entry to countries in south east Asia in the last 2 years.

The chief suspect in the alleged kidnap of a British model in Milan has said he did not knowingly take part in any crime.

A British model who was allegedly kidnapped in Milan was too terrified to try to get away from her captor when he took her shoe shopping and to buy groceries, her lawyer said.

A British model who was allegedly kidnapped in Milan and detained for six days while her captor tried to auction her online has returned to the UK.

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 surge in seizures of child-like sex dolls by border officers has led investigators to identify dozens of previously unknown suspected paedophiles.

A student has admitted carrying out a string of high-profile cyber attacks on the websites of several multi-national firms.

A youth worker who watched a livestream of a six-year-old boy being raped and urged on the attacker has been jailed for 11 years.

A sex offender who conspired with a mother to carry out the "most appalling abuse imaginable" planned to travel to Canada to rape her children, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.

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

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said there was a lot of confidence in the investigation to be conducted by a judge into the auction of the Project Eagle loans by Nama.

An international effort is under way to track down the criminals behind an unprecedented global cyber attack that wreaked havoc across the NHS in England.

Latest: 200,000 victims worldwide have now been hit by the "WannaCry" cyber attack.

Smartphones, watches, televisions, and fitness trackers could be targeted by cyber criminals seeking to hold users to ransom over their personal data, security chiefs have warned.

Around 794lb (360kg) of cocaine with a potential value of £50m has washed up on two beaches in Norfolk, England.

A paedophile is likely to die in jail after being handed 13 life sentences for a "horrific" catalogue of abuse on children in Britain and abroad.

We may need an inquiry into Nama’s Project Eagle sales in the North, but why is the State run in a manner that necessitates inquiries to get at the truth, asks Michael Clifford.

A suspected paedophile who went on the run and became one of Britain's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in France.

Northern Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has said Northern Ireland’s entire political system has been corrupted by the £1.24bn Project Eagle property sale.

A prolonged investigation by a number of international law enforcement agencies yesterday led to a man appearing in a Romanian court charged in connection with the death of a Tyrone teenager.