AT the funeral Mass of Máirín Lynch in Cork’s North Cathedral yesterday, an old friend flicked through a small photo album and fought back tears.

AN Assistant Garda Commissioner said he would be delighted to deploy more gardaí on the beat in Cork city, and could do so if changes in the legal system meant his subordinates didn’t have to spend so much time in the courts or on prisoner escorts.

One hundred and twenty police officers from 23 countries worldwide are due to attend a policing conference in Kinsale, Co Cork, today.

GARDA Commissioner Pat Byrne promised last night to keep armed officers on the streets of Limerick until there is peace.

Jim O'Sullivan

A senior Garda has apologised to the Abbeylara Inquiry for referring to the murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane as a republican in a report to the Dáil sub committee.

The inquiry into the Abbeylara shooting was suspended for half-an-hour today after heated exchanges between a committee member and a Garda Superintendent.

A senior Garda has told the Abbeylara inquiry that gardai were right to take the course of action they did when John Carthy was fatally wounded in April last year.