Garda anti-gang units have delivered a blow to one of the country’s biggest drug traffickers

A man has been arrested following a drug seizure in Ballyfermot in Dublin.

The Garda security and intelligence section is to be hard hit this year with the departure of the majority of its top officers.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said that drugs represent an “immediate and imminent” issue for the public, despite all the successes his organisation has had against gangs.

Gardaí are extending speed cameras to more than 900 extra roads after research showed that three out of four fatalities are occurring in these zones.

Garda anti-gang units have seized around €400,000 in cash from an Eastern European organised crime network.

A change of mindset among Garda top brass is key if the force is to become a more community-focussed police service, better protecting areas ravaged by drugs and crime, write Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe

A “worrying” spike in arrests for intoxicated driving were made on Christmas day – with 16 people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy said the target for local garda commanders should not be is crime up or down but “community safety”.

A man arrested as part of an investigation into alleged passport fraud has been released without charge.

Intelligence gathered by foreign security services on returned Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith is a key part of evidence being put to the Dundalk woman in questioning.

A booming cocaine trade has driven the value of the European drugs market to at least €30bn annually, according to a major report.

Gardaí said a premises in the Clondalkin area was searched yesterday as a result of an intelligence-led operation.

Gardaí believe they have saved lives and inflicted a double blow to Drogheda's feuding gangs after separate hauls of firearms and drugs.

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

Irish Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith and her daughter may not arrive back home until next week as Irish officials in Turkey conduct checks to confirm their identities, particularly that of her two-year-old girl, the Irish Examiner understands.

Gardaí have seized a firearm and ammunition following a search in Dublin.

Threats against the directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) are "being taken very seriously at the highest level", according to the company's CEO.

Two men, aged 57 and 42, from the UK and Northern Ireland were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking.

A Garda Chief Superintendent has accused a whistleblower of an orchestrated campaign designed to prevent his promotion and of character assassination by politicians, a tribunal has heard.

Brexit provides dissident republicans with a “rallying cry” in their bid to perpetuate the severe threat they pose to security services in the North, a senior PSNI officer has said.

Frontline garda supervisors in Cork city have warned that the biggest ever restructuring of An Garda Siochana since its foundation will remove policing resources away from the outlying areas into the centre.

The Garda's security chief talks to Cormac O'Keeffe about dissidents, Brexit and the jihadist threat.

As gardaí prepare a file on Irish woman Lisa Smith for possible terrorist offences committed in Syria, it has emerged that 20 suspected jihadists have been arrested in Ireland since 2015.

More than 460 gardaí have so far being disciplined in relation to the failure to prosecute almost 3,500 juvenile offenders, it has emerged.

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.

Investigations are ongoing, nationally and internationally.

Up to 65% of resources going to garda divisions under the new policing revamp should be spent on community policing, a top-level garda summit has heard.

Canadian police have found two bodies, believed to be the teenage fugitives suspected of three murders.

Fears have been raised that progress made on improving road safety has stalled after new figures showed a 7% increase in road deaths this year.

The smart phones are described as 'mobile data stations', and provide gardaí on the roadside immediate and secure access to the same information as they would have in a garda station.

Applications by the Public Appointments Service and the State to strike out a senior garda's action over an alleged flawed recruitment process for the position of Deputy Commissioner have been dismissed by the High Court.

Garda bosses say up to 90% of recommendations to improve public order policing will be implemented by the end of the year, with the rest following early in 2020.

Two garda inspectors are challenging disciplinary sanctions against them after they were found to be in neglect of duty in relation to the investigation into claims by a woman that her foster brother sexually abused her in the 1960s and 1970s.

A Louth man has been acquitted of IRA membership after the Special Criminal Court found it could not rely on the belief evidence of a Garda Assistant Commissioner as being independent from the investigation.

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

Gardaí have seized drugs worth €292,000 following the search of a house in Dublin last night.

Official figures show that domestic burglaries have been cut in half over the last four years - a trend gardaí are attributing to a dedicated policing operation.

Five Criminal Asset Bureau officers have claimed the State has refused to pay them the same financial allowance paid to other non-garda officers for carrying out certain dangerous duties on behalf of the bureau.

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

Two men have been arrested and a gun was recovered by gardaí at a house in Dublin today.

Speeding interceptions doubled in the first three months of 2019.

There has been a 24% increase in detections of people holding mobile phones while driving - a practice which makes the driver four times more likely to crash.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has tasked an assistant commissioner to coordinate investigations into reports that DNA samples of suspected criminals have gone missing.