SENIOR gardaí yesterday said the conviction of gangland boss Brian Rattigan for murder was “hugely significant” in the message it sends out to organised crime.

ONE of the central victims of garda misconduct in Donegal yesterday dismissed controversy over why none of five gardaí ordered to be transferred from the county was moved.

ELITE armed garda officers are patrolling a Dublin suburb amid fears of further bloodshed in a spiralling gang war.

A Garda called to a suspected bomb factory find today admitted neither securing the scene or passing on the information to his local station chiefs.