Senior gardaí told the Public Accounts Committee that the controversial redistribution and investment of funds at the Garda College was done with the aim of developing facilities at the Templemore training campus.

A TD fighting for parents to have the right to know if a sex offender is in their area has warned that a “lack of information” from authorities caused a community to “out” a convicted rapist living in their midst.

A 21-year-old man who raped and threatened to kill two Australian women in their Dublin flat has been jailed for 17 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping two Australian women in their flat in the Rathmines area.