An Irish person is part of a group of five people who have been arrested in connection with an international cannabis-trafficking network based in Spain.

A Corkman who made a significant settlement with the Criminal Assets Bureau has been arrested with his partner after Spanish police seized a yacht carrying €3m of cannabis.

Two Irish men, one Irish woman and two Britons have been arrested after a half tonne haul of cannabis was seized from a yacht off Spain.

Basque separatist group ETA, which renounced violence last month after spending more than 40 years trying to shoot and bomb its way into achieving an independent state, now says surrendering weapons is on its agenda, a newspaper reported today.

MOST of us are lucky enough to have the luxury of being blase about the latest gangland atrocity or drug smuggling operation uncovered by the gardaí.

A man suspected of heading a vast international drugs, guns and money laundering empire was arrested during raids in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe today.

A powerful bomb exploded today near the Basque city of Bilbao, killing a policeman in an attack blamed on the separatist group Eta.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann will not take legal action over a series of alleged smears against them in the Portuguese media, a family spokeswoman said.

POLICE in Spain are investigating a reported sighting of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.