Gardaí have discovered that a violent criminal gang, whose leaders are based in Ballyfermot, Dublin and Tipperary, hold detailed intelligence data on business people living in counties Cork, Tipperary and Limerick identified as potential burglary/tiger kidnap targets.

Two men involved in an armed raid on a family’s home in Co Limerick have been given jail sentences of seven and five years at Limerick Circuit Court.

A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder has hanged himself in the North.

Bail has been refused to a Corkman charged in relation to false imprisonment and aggravated burglary at a family home in Co Limerick, last week.

Bail has been refused to a Corkman charged in relation to false imprisonment and aggravated burglary at a family home in Co Limerick, last week.

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it says detainees are being tortured.

TENSIONS are high after a weekend shooting linked to a violent feud between Traveller families in Cork and Waterford.

Jordan is speeding up procedures to bring to trial the man charged with shooting to death a British tourist and the wounding of six others at a popular Roman ruin in the capital, Amman, judicial officials said today.

A British tourist shot dead in Jordan this week had just quit his job in Dublin to go travelling, his distraught parents confirmed today.

An Iraq-based Muslim militant group today praised a Jordanian gunman for shooting foreign tourists visiting a popular Roman ruin in Amman, according to a message posted in its name on the internet.

British tourist Karen Sparke, who was wounded in a gun attack near Amman’s Roman amphitheatre was discharged from a hospital today as the US Embassy warned its citizens to stay away from the area of Jordan’s capital.