There have been fresh calls to arm frontline gardaí with electric stun guns after a man used a bottle to attack a garda.

A near seven-hour armed siege has ended peacefully after an 89-year-old man walked out of his home, after a shot was earlier fired when gardai went to his house to revoke his firearms licence.

Garda Adrian Donohoe might still be alive if sub-machine guns had not been withdrawn from general use within the Garda force.

As part of an operation involving the Garda National Drugs Unit, Gardai from the Kilkenny Division and Regional Support Units a search was carried out at double warehouse in Kildalton, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, this evening.

MOBILE gangs, using high-power stolen cars in smash-and-grab robberies throughout Munster, Leinster and Connaught were yesterday targeted in dawn raids by gardaí.

GARDAÍ across the country want armed officers on the street on a permanent basis to combat an “increase in armed violence”.

Elite armed gardaí begin work tomorrow in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick as part of a new regional strategy to tackle shootings and hostage situations.

A REVOLVER and more than 200 bullets were found during house searches in Ballynanty on the north side of Limerick city yesterday.

THE debate on whether the country’s uniformed gardaí should be armed split on an urban/rural divide yesterday.