A speedy response by gardaí in Cork city ensured that a tourist robbed of her travel documents on the day she was due to fly out was able to make her flight.

12 caravans, three generators and power tools, all thought to be stolen, have been recovered after searches in the Tootenhill area in Dublin.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is examining the purchase of lands and homes by a convicted drug dealer along the border.

Detectives involved in raiding seven premises connected with the suspected sale of contaminated horse meat say that they do not believe that any contaminated meat has been sold in Ireland.

The specialist garda team investigating alleged corruption in the force is examining “how far and deep” the suspected criminality goes following the release of three officers.

More gardaí may come under the scrutiny of an internal probe into alleged corruption following the dramatic arrest of three members, including a high-ranking officer.

As a member of An Garda Síochána, Maurice McCabe was entitled to know he was being accused of these offences, writes Michael Clifford

The Garda Commissioner has announced the appointments of 11 newly-promoted senior officers and the transfer of seven Garda bosses, in a major reshuffle of top brass.

Paintings with an overall value of more than €100,000 are being put on display in the hope of tracking down their rightful owners.

A former civil servant caught with over 7,000 images and 21 videos of child porn has avoided jail.

A former civil servant caught with over 7,000 images and 21 videos of child pornography has avoided jail.

Gardaí busted a major cocaine factory as part of a nationwide sting involving 419 planned searches and 89 arrests for a range of crimes.

The family of an assassinated prison officer have pleaded for a face-to-face meeting with his killers after the IRA finally admitted it was behind the murder.

Garda investigations at the Passport Office indicate that foreign nationals, rather than Irish criminal gangs, were the beneficiaries of a suspected passport fraud.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has confirmed it was acting on concerns about the meat trader at the centre of the horse DNA scandal as early as October.

Gardaí have interviewed 17 men who claim they were sexually abused while attending a college on the outskirts of Cork.

SUSPECTED paedophile priests identified in the Murphy Commission’s report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin may face charges.

A GARDA team are to interview colleagues of two gardaí who have been suspended after being caught with cocaine following a high-profile internal investigation.

THE Garda’s top gangland squad will examine the phone records and bank accounts of a garda caught with hundreds of euro worth of cocaine.

THE Garda’s two specialist units tasked with combating organised crime and dissident republicans are without a boss.

THERE have been 50 to 60 calls to a dedicated Garda phone line set up to deal with complaints arising from the Murphy report.

A RETIRED Garda boss has called for prosecutions to be taken against gardaí who covered up clerical child sex abuse documented in the Murphy Report.

A MAN who got girls of less than 10 years of age to strip at his home in West Cork and then get into sexual poses with him in order to generate child pornography was jailed for six years yesterday.

ONE of Dublin’s biggest and most violent gangs was targeted yesterday in a massive Garda swoop on more than 50 homes and offices.

A EUROPE-wide hunt for three wanted men ended dramatically in Limerick when one jumped 30 feet from a window to try and escape gardaí.

Judges are expected to rule today on whether incriminating statements allegedly made by a former IRA chief can be used against him in his trial on kidnap charges.

A senior police officer did not not tell a bail hearing that an ex-IRA chief charged over a violent kidnapping implicated himself in the crime under questioning, a court heard today.

A former IRA chief told detectives investigating the kidnapping of a supermarket boss that he was at a hidden camp where the captive was held, it was claimed in court today.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday led a huge operation against a suspected organised crime gang in the north-west.

A SERVING garda was arrested yesterday as part of a long-running investigation into alleged criminal activity in the Wexford region.

A serving Garda officer was today arrested as part of a major fraud investigation.

GARDAÍ hope to seize the assets of gang bosses and bring criminal charges following the massive seizure of counterfeit goods yesterday.

Gardaí were today investigating what has been described as an embarrassing security breach at a building adjoining one of its most sensitive operational centres.

ONE of the three men swooped on by gardaí as they were about to carry out a raid was out on bail for a serious drug charge, it emerged yesterday.

Several fishing boats and factories were today raided by gardaí as part of a crackdown on suspected fraud within the industry.

Detectives were tonight investigating the death of one of their colleagues, who was found shot dead in a police headquarters.

MORE than 6,000 people have been arrested and 640 firearms confiscated as part of a major crackdown on organised crime.

GARDAÍ believe they have dealt another major blow to the gang which has taken over from murdered boss Martin ‘Marlo’ Hyland.

A journalist and a detective sergeant questioned by gardaí over the leak of an official report highly critical of the force were tonight released without charge.

A journalist and a detective sergeant were today arrested by gardaí investigating the leak of an official report highly critical of the force.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy has placed unsolved crimes as a major priority in his last year in charge of the force.

GARDAÍ were questioning two men last night in connection with the murder of Latvian mother Baiba Saulite.

THE Criminal Assets Bureau is to get a new chief, replacing Felix McKenna who is set to retire in two week’s time.

WATERFORD needs more targeted, expert garda power and resources to tackle drugs and drug dealers, a local TD says. And he’s vowed to fight to have those resources deployed in the region.