Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan insists that Garda services are in place to respond to reports of domestic violence.

Some 40% of the students have only completed five-six weeks training (compared to the standard 32 weeks).

There are early reports from gardaí of a drop in 999 calls and a general reduction in policing demands as Covid-19 sees a mass closure of pubs, fewer cars on the road and people staying indoors.

"This is a health issue, not a police issue, but to do police work our guards need to be healthy – that’s the real issue from a garda point of view."

The number of new cases involving gardaí being suspended from duty has jumped three-fold in the last three years.

Householders prefer simple flat or day/night rate electricity tariffs, according to the Economic Social Research Institute.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald insists 'the war is over' despite Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s comments linking the party to the Provisional Army Council.

The Garda Commissioner is to investigate claims that Cork’s specialist sex crimes unit is no longer functioning.

The Garda Commissioner has said he will work with whatever government is elected, including a Sinn Féin-led government.

More than 3,500 people have completed a government public consultation survey on updating laws on hate speech and hate crime.

Families of homicide victims are “retraumatised” by failings identified in a review of homicide investigations, a support group has said.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been told more needs to be done to bolster permanent garda numbers in the city and county.

Police believe computers, phones and documentation seized from a “safe house” used by the suspected orchestrator of the abduction of Kevin Lunney could have “significant potential” in unearthing evidence.

Speaking on RTÉ Radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show Mr Flanagan denied that he was blaming the public for not speaking up

The charity’s founder Shay Kinsella said it is “struggling” to survive, adding: “This has taken a lot out of me”.

A British-Irish parliamentary body has warned that the strong relationship between Gardaí and the PSNI “could be undermined” if there was no Brexit agreement.

Since when was the scheduling of games at Junior B level the accepted metric for organisational incompetence? Whence comes this desire to compare such noble contests with the cancellation of Rugby World Cup games in the land of the rising sun?

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 wheelchair user has said he sometimes has to put his life in his hands by going out on the road - because of obstacles on the footpath such as sandwich boards, bins, and parked cars.

The process of amalgamating garda regions has already begun as gardaí usher in the biggest restructuring of the force in the history of the State.

Families of homicide victims renewed calls at the weekend for the Government to back legal proposals which would allow for minimum terms to be applied to murderers.

There are active files with the DPP in relation to other incidents involving Quinn group staff, he told Newstalk Breakfast.

President Michael D Higgins has waded into the beef crisis by telling crowds on the first day of the National Ploughing Championships in Co Carlow that there needed to be more transparency in the price relationship between producers and farmers.

Phil Hogan looks set to be nominated in the coming days to take over the powerful role of EU Trade Commissioner.

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.

As our rugby team discovered at Twickenham on Saturday, intent and delivery are very different things.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has sought an urgent meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris after stating it is “very concerned” restructuring of his force will reduce the focus on operations designed to ensure the country’s roads are as safe as possible.

The Road Safety Authority is demanding an urgent meeting with the Garda Commissioner over what it calls a "disappointing demotion and devaluing" of road safety under changes to the Garda structure.

A network of 19 “mini police forces” is to be set up across the country under a massive restructuring of the Garda organisation.

Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe was briefed on an interim report of an investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner into the public services card a year ago, it has emerged.

Gardaí are warning that the cost of the upcoming visit of American vice-president Mike Pence will compromise the safety and security of Irish citizens.

Apple’s and the Government’s €13bn battle with the EU reaches the European courts next month at the start of a process set to throw light on Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s crackdown on tax deals doled out to big companies.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris assisted in arresting a woman suspected of drink driving in Dublin yesterday.

The family of murdered prison officer Brian Stack will meet with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris later to get answers over his killing.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed the Government will ask the EU to re-appoint ex-Fine Gael minister Phil Hogan as an EU commissioner - despite the backlash over the Mercosur deal.