A German woman accused of involvement in 10 neo-Nazi murders broke her silence for the first time in four years, telling a court in Munich that she only learned of the deaths after they had taken place.

German authorities have conducted raids across the country, seizing explosives and arresting four people accused of founding a right-wing extremist group to attack mosques and housing for asylum seekers.

A court has ruled against surveillance gardaí who claimed that revealing the number of officers who observe suspects from cars would allow other suspects to know which cars “to look for”.

Members of the public were excluded from the Special Criminal Court today during evidence by members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA men membership in 2013.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that members of the public should be excluded from the court when six members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit give evidence in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA membership.

Security arrangements are being made for a former murderer accused turned prosecution witness to give evidence in the Special Criminal Court trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly.

A garda member of the National Surveillance Unit (NSU) who was present in a car park shortly after dissident republican Peter Butterly was shot dead there gave evidence at the Special Criminal Court today at the trial of three men accused of the murder.

The Special Criminal Court has directed that the public be excluded from court while gardaí from the National Surveillance Unit give evidence in the trial of three men charged with murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly.

A far-right murder spree went undetected for years because German security services made scores of errors, partially because of institutional bias against immigrants, a parliamentary investigation has found.

The highest-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened amid tight security and intense media interest, with the five accused appearing in public for the first time since their arrest more than a year ago.

Prosecutors call Beate Zschaepe Germany’s most dangerous neo-Nazi and from Monday, she will sit in the dock in the country’s biggest far-right murder trial of the post-war period.

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has resigned after admitting that his agency had shredded files on a neo-Nazi cell whose killing spree targeting immigrants rocked the country late last year.

The trial of three men from the North men charged with membership of the IRA has heard that none of the accused were under surveillance before their arrest.

HALF joking, half serious, one experienced detective tackling a violent gang war in south Dublin described them as the “black ops” of the force.

TWO people are due in court today in connection with an investigation into the suspected sale of firearms.

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.

THE early arrest of nine suspects — including two people intercepted during their getaway — is highly unusual in tiger kidnapping cases, according to senior garda sources.

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.

THE number of patients treated for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the mid-west increased by over 60% between 2000 and 2004.

One of the four men involved in an attempted bank robbery in Abbyleix in 2001 in which a garda was accidentally killed has been jailed for eight years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.