A Monaghan mechanic has been found guilty of IRA membership by the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

The Garda commissioner said the appointment by the Government of 28 senior garda managers will “help to address the critical vacancies” in the organisation.

One of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering an African man who’s headless and dismembered body was found in the Royal Canal, told gardaí how she hit him with a hammer after her sister cut his throat with a Stanley blade, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

An inquest into the death of a Dublin teenager was adjourned today after a man was charged with his murder.

The mother of a Somalian national, whose headless corpse was discovered in Dublin’s Royal Canal, may travel to Ireland to aid the garda investigation into her son’s death, it emerged today.