Swedish police today questioned eight suspects in a crackdown on child pornography, officials said.

The Gardaí and the PSNI have confirmed that three Irish people were arrested in connection with the internet paedophile network broken up by the British police.

Two people have been arrested in the North in connection with the disbandment of a global paedophile ring.

Police have smashed a global internet paedophile ring with more than 700 suspects worldwide, a British law enforcement agency said today.