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.

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.

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

Five men have been found guilty in Britain for conspiring to import 1.4 tonnes of cocaine on a yacht that was under surveillance by the Irish Navy and Air Corps as it travelled across 200 miles of Irish waters last August.

The Department of Education’s decision not have history as a mandatory subject in the Junior Cert still raises concerns that many students may not then study it in the Leaving Cert, and so as citizens may have big gaps in knowledge of our country’s past and its impact on today.

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.

The Irish navy and air corps played a key role in the seizure of at least 500kg of cocaine in an international operation targeting a major drug-trafficking gang.

There is an “unprecedented” number of people before the courts or in custody on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, Garda bosses investigating the Kinahan crime cartel have said.

‘Everybody knew Gaybo the length and breadth of the country and beyond’ - Gabriel Howard, a legendary figure in Irish cycling, passed away earlier this month following a farm accident, writes Paul Fitzpatrick

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Gardaí have learned from the management of sex offenders that ‘they are very controlling and find different ways to offend’, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

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

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.

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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.

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

The prospect of a cross-border Nama inquiry should not be completely ruled out, according to Stormont's finance minister.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) made 44 disruptions of child sexual exploitation, drugs and money laundering gangs in the North last year.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has confirmed he will bring a memo to Cabinet next week to establish a Citizen’s Convention to examine the current controversial abortion laws.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has confirmed that he will bring a memo to Cabinet next week to establish a Citizen’s Convention to examine the current controversial abortion laws.

One of the world's most wanted people-smugglers has been arrested.

Richard Huckle was "a constant groomer" who pretended to be a Christian philanthropist while in fact basing "his whole life around the sexual abuse of children", investigators said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected Opposition calls for a Commission of Inquiry into the sale of Nama’s northern loan book, following the arrests of two men in a fraud investigation linked to the sale, writes Daniel McConnell of the Irish Examiner.

Two men have been arrested by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) in a fraud investigation linked to the biggest property deal ever in Northern Ireland.

British security services have lost their legal fight to force an alleged cyber hacker to hand over the passwords to his encrypted computers in a landmark case.

A ninth person has been jailed in connection with the interception of a yacht carrying cocaine with a street value of more than £160m off the south-west coast of Ireland.