Meanwhile, gardaí are investigating reports that scrap metal yard owners are being threatened by those responsible.

Garda security services have seized almost 160kg of explosives and arrested more than 90 people in operations targeting dissident republicans in the last four years.

A high-level Irish-British police operation has hit a massive drug-smuggling operation involving a “major Turkish supplier”, Ireland’s biggest heroin trafficking gang, and a Dublin man known in celebrity circles.

A Dublin man accused of IRA membership has been released on bail by the non-jury Special Criminal Court today.

Two Dublin men have appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court this evening charged with IRA membership.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to having a sub-machine gun and three handguns with intent to endanger life.

The man was sacked for gross misconduct in July 2018 after Revenue found that his actions breached Revenue’s Code of Ethics.

IT may surprise some people that emergency anti-terrorist measures have been renewed for another year, more than 20 years after the cessation of violence in Northern Ireland.

Two members of An Garda Síochána have been honoured by Spanish police for their work relating to investigations associated with organised crime.

A series of raids have been carried out in west Dublin today as part of a major insurance fraud crackdown.

Two men have been jailed in connection with the "execution" of Aidan "The Beast" O'Driscoll, who was killed on a busy Cork street in a "well-planned" hit as part of an internal dispute between the Real IRA and the New IRA.

A Dublin man who was arrested with a loaded gun in Dublin’s north inner city was “an important and trusted member” of an organised crime gang, the non-jury Special Criminal Court has heard.

Up to four people targeted in Garda raids of 31 homes have voluntarily admitted to possessing more than 150,000 child abuse images, the Irish Examiner understands. In one case, there are believed to be 70,000 images on the person’s digital devices.

A dissident republican leader convicted of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation which plotted an explosion during the State visit of Britain’s Prince Charles two years ago has been jailed for eleven and a half years.

A "trusted" IRA member who purchased in a "surreptitious manner" the car used in the murder in Northern Ireland of prison officer, David Black, has been jailed for five years.

Four men have appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged in connection with the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly four and a half years ago.

A 26-year-old Dublin man will face trial at the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court for the murder of Noel Kirwan, writes Alison O'Riordan.

A man has been charged with knowingly possessing four kilograms of TNT in central Dublin, while another man has been charged with IRA membership, at a bank-holiday Sunday sitting of the Special Criminal Court.

Patrick Hutch Jnr, accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin last February, will face trial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in January 2018.

Any national governing body that does not adhere to Sport Ireland‘s new governance programme will have their funding removed, according to Minister of State for Sport, Patrick O’Donovan.

Prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy had nothing to do with cattle farming, according to his lawyers in an appeal against conviction for evading tax on profits from a farming business.

Patrick Hutch Jr, who is accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, has been further remanded in custody pending the preparation of a book of evidence.

Cork ICA Federation marks its 80th birthday next year and celebrations are set to start early in the New Year.

An internal INLA dispute and the Kinahan-Hutch feud are being examined as motives for the latest gun attack in Dublin.

A Lot Done, More to Do was Fianna Fáil’s old campaign slogan. But this sentiment may also capture Sinn Féin’s attitude to the election outcome, suggests Dr Brian Murphy.  

As expected, the brutal murder of Dublin taxi-driver and sometime criminal Eddie Hutch at his Ballybough home on Monday brought law and order on to centre stage of this general election campaign, writes Daniel McConnell

Day six of the campaign saw Sinn Féin and Gerry Adams put under significant pressure over their call to abolish the Special Criminal Court, writes Daniel McConnell

Gerry Adams has failed to detail the measures that would be put in place to protect jurors and witnesses if the Special Criminal Court is abolished.

Gerry Adams has questioned the ability of the judiciary, saying that judges can make mistakes.

Almost 250 suspected dissident republicans and 25 gang members were arrested within the last year under emergency anti-terror and organised crime laws.

A 44% increase in the numbers of people on trolleys has prompted the country’s largest nursing union to describe the situation in the country’s emergency departments as a "national emergency".

Two men are due in court today charged in connection with dissident republican activities.

Specialist surveillance gardaí will not be allowed give evidence from behind a screen at the non-jury trial of three men accused of murdering dissident republican Peter Butterly.

There have been 68 gangland murders since 2009, with "growing and inextricable links" between paramilitary groups and organised crime, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.

The Buy My Dress fundraiser will raise vital funds for the Down Syndrome Centre this Sunday. Arlene Harris talks to Triona Cussen who says the campaign will help others like her son.

A Lithuanian man charged with the possession of a handgun has been granted a bail variation to allow him take up work as a security guard.

Two men are to appear in court in Dublin again on Friday charged with the possession of two handguns in the south inner city.

No matter how loud he turned the music up on his walkman, no matter no hard he pressed the headphones against his ears, John Dundon could not drown out the reality facing him in Court 11.

Following the jailing of John Dundon — the notorious gang leader who ordered a murder that triggered the killing of Shane Geoghegan, a totally innocent victim in the wrong place at the wrong time — the people of Limerick and of Ireland will breathe a sigh of relief that such a heinous and evil figure has been put behind bars for life.

It never fails to command attention — the awesome sight of a giant whale sticking its fluke out of the water, swinging it around and slapping the waves before disappearing again.