He told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland the drugs issue is being tackled in many ways.

Three men aged in their 20s, 40s and 50s were arrested after gardaí stopped two cars in the Artane area and seized a gun.

"What we are trying to say to people is that behaviours are not changing to the levels and to the degree that I would like to see happen, said Assistant Garda Commissioner David Sheahan

Michael O’Sullivan warned that “decent” people who buy cocaine are “increasing the flow of power and funnelling finances to these gangsters.”

Anyone who thinks that drug gangs are confined to Dublin and other major cities in Ireland need to think again. It is a nationwide scourge that forms a deadly triangle between Dublin and Drogheda on the east coast and Sligo in the West.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Drivers are being asked to take care on the roads this bank holiday weekend and to watch out for motorcyclists in particular.

Approximately 11% of drink-driving fatalities happen the morning after a night out.

Gardaí say the Kinahan crime cartel is “running out of people to do their work” after an international operation resulted in 13 arrests in Ireland and the Netherlands and the seizure of an estimated €10m worth of drugs.

Gardaí are continuing to detain a man and a woman in Dublin, following an operation targeting gangland crime.

Local Authorities are being urged to introduce more 30km/h zones in towns and cities around the country.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said the latest findings into the investigation of falsely recorded breath tests are "astonishing."

Senior gardaí are coming under pressure to explain the exact scope of the investigation into the recording of fake breath tests after it emerged the Road Safety Authority (RSA) had expressed concerns that a case of one garda breathalysing himself to boost figures was not part of the probe.

Senior gardaí are coming under pressure to explain the exact scope of the investigation into the recording of fake breath tests after it emerged the Road Safety Authority (RSA) had expressed concerns that a case of one garda breathalysing himself to boost figures was not part of the probe.

Gardaí have intervened in more than 30 potential murders since the Regency Hotel attack late last summer.

A man was being questioned by gardaí in Co Tipperary last night over the suspected hit-and-run death of a pedestrian at the weekend.

Latest: A male aged in his 40s has been arrested by Gardaí investigating a fatal collision at Glengoole, Thurles.

The Garda Ombudsman has confirmed it has not received any complaints in relation to garda behaviour at the Jobstown protest trial.

The association representing families of homicide victims said it was “very concerned” at the revelation that 89 homicide offences have not been recorded on official crime statistics.

The “tone, content, and accuracy” of material provided by gardaí on homicide data has been criticised by the Policing Authority.

A Cork man who told gardaí he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertlizer in the van he was driving, has been found guilty of membership of the IRA.

A family wiped out, a community laid waste by grief, a house within whose walls lies the answer to what motivated the killer in an horrific murder-suicide that claimed the lives of five.

Gardaí are treating the death of a family of five at a house in Co Cavan as a murder- suicide.

The head of Europol does not believe a border poll or the reunification of Ireland would spark a return of terrorism in the North.

The Garda crackdown that followed the death of crusading journalist Veronica Guerin showed gangsters that they were not untouchable. Numerous arrests and the seizure of €50m of assets and €150m in taxes followed that brutal killing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

A Garda spokesman has said that criminal gangs from west Balkan countries are coming to Ireland to steal high-voltage power lines.

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has told a jury how a man who was first charged with the 1997 murder of one woman, but later had the charge withdrawn, could not have "more accurately described" the carving knife blades found at the scene.

Twenty people a day were caught drink or drug-driving over the festive period at Garda checkpoints, though overall the number of people that drove while intoxicated fell compared with Christmas 2013.

33-year-old pedestrian in Donegal is first fatality of 2015

The number of people killed on Irish roads has increased for the second year in a row, new figures have revealed.

THE VOYAGE

Gardaí are appealing to drivers to keep an eye out for motorcyclists over the bank holiday weekend.

Gardaí say almost 1,200 fixed charge notices were issued as part of their blitz on drivers who used their mobiles phones over the past weekend.

Gardaí are launching a nationwide blitz against people using mobile phones while driving tomorrow.

Gardaí are appealing to drivers to slow down over the long weekend.

Gardaí and the Road Safety Authority have revealed that one fifth of drivers and passengers killed in road crashes last year were not wearing seatbelts.

A report into the penalty points system is to be published by the Garda Inspectorate later today.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said no one should receive preferential treatment when it comes to penalty points.

The Government’s rush to demand explanations from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission as to why it didn’t tell them of its concerns that its offices were bugged is another example of the Coalition’s attempts to deflect attention away from its own responsibilities.

The annual number of breath tests carried out by gardaí at checkpoints reached a record low last year.

Gardaí are to mount a major road safety campaign over the Christmas period.

Gardaí are questioning seven men arrested in connection with an armed robbery in Co Tipperary overnight.