Gardaí have carried out three raids in Drogheda, Dublin and Limerick in the past three days.

A third man was arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating the recovery of a firearm during an intelligence-led operation in Ballyfermot earlier this week.

Two men have been arrested following an intelligence-led garda operation in Dublin.

A Dublin man accused of possessing almost €3m worth of drugs and an assault rifle told Gardaí that he and his brother, who was caught with 15 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, lived "separate lives" and were like "chalk and cheese".

A major drug trafficking outfit recently hit by the Criminal Assets Bureau is suspected of being behind the importation of a massive haul of cocaine intercepted by Garda gang units.

There was an 11-fold increase in the value of assets frozen last year from suspected crime bosses, according to new figures.

The gardaí seized drugs worth over €560,000 following the interception of a vehicle on Wednesday.

Gardaí in Louth have made a fresh appeal for information in relation to last weekend’s murder of teenager Cameron Reilly.

Spanish police say they have “dismantled” a major Irish drug-trafficking gang after a joint operation with gardaí resulted in the seizure of 170kg of cannabis herb and the arrest of four Irish men.

Two men are due in court in Dublin tomorrow, charged in connection with a €500,000 raid on a pill-factory in County Kildare.

A busted “backyard” drug factory linked to the Kinahan crime cartel was capable of producing up to 7,000 ecstasy pills every hour, gardaí believe.

An operation was carried out on Sunday by officers from the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau supported by the Special Crime Task Force.

A loaded revolver has been seized by Gardaí in Dublin 4.

Gardaí investigating serious criminal activity in Dublin have found a loaded sub-machine gun in Lucan.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has conducted searches targeting the purchase of properties by an associate of the Kinahan crime cartel.

Three cars worth €100k, 20 watches worth €200k, and €28,500 cash seized from drug dealing brothers.

Gardaí have made an arrest after a drug seizure in Dublin.

Detectives investigating a major cocaine and ecstasy seizure in Co Louth believe a local drug trafficking gang is involved.

Gardaí and revenue officers have seized over 370g of cannabis thought to be worth €2.4m at Dublin Port.

Drugs worth up to €800,000 have been seized by gardaí in Dublin.

Latest: A woman aged in her 20s was arrested at Dublin Airport today.

Gardaí investigating the Kinahan crime gang have seized around €4m worth of cannabis and heroin in Dublin.

Three men have appeared in court charged with laundering money at a car wash in Dublin.

Gardaí have arrested four men following a seizure of an estimated €200,000 of cannabis plants.

Gardaí have continued their crackdown on the Kinahan crime cartel with the arrest of a man in Wexford.

Officers seized documents including a ledger of cash payments and discovered more than €300,000 in cash in Thursday's raid.

Gardaí are examining a ledger of cash payments, which was uncovered with more than €300,000 in cash, at a Kinahan counting centre in south Dublin.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sent a file to the DPP in relation to six senior associates of the Kinahan crime cartel for suspected money-laundering offences.

Criminal gangs are showing their ‘flexibility’ by laundering their profits from criminal activity through the horse-racing industry and gyms, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

An Estonian man has appeared in court charged with conspiring to murder a man called James Gately in Northern Ireland.

An e-class Mercedes worth around €40,000 was seized yesterday from a criminal gang with connections with the Hutch grouping.

Gardaí are to conduct further searches in Meath today after seizing drugs, money and a firearm yesterday.

Gardaí are investigating whether the latest massive drug seizure is connected to the Hutch criminal grouping.

Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Gardaí are drafting a policing plan to protect family events marking the anniversary this Sunday of the murder of Kinahan cartel lieutenant David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.

Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has praised the actions of gardaí following the seizure of €3m worth of drugs, as well as an assault rifle, from a house in Kildare over the weekend.

Gardaí are braced for a backlash from the Hutch gang against the Kinahan cartel amid intelligence of a death threat against a senior cartel figure.

Gardaí have seized around €300,000 worth of cannabis herb in Co. Kildare and Co. Dublin.

Garda gang units have saved the lives of Hutch family members and potentially of innocent bystanders after seizing an arsenal of high-powered weaponry from the Kinahan crime cartel.

Three men appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court at 7.30pm tonight charged in connection with a cash in transit robbery outside a bank on Friday.

Anti-gang Garda units confronted an armed crime boss when they thwarted an attempted robbery of a security van.