More than 100 newly promoted garda sergeants have been allocated to their positions.

Garda bosses have described the murder and dismemberment of a 17-year-old boy as “savage”, “shocking” and “unacceptable”.

Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

Insurance companies may be asked to provide financial support to help fund investigations into fraudulent claims.

Garda bosses say up to 90% of recommendations to improve public order policing will be implemented by the end of the year, with the rest following early in 2020.

Latest: A Garda Inspector arrested as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in the force has been released without charge.

The new unit was confirmed at the first ever Garda National Vetting Conference.

An Garda Síochána has advised statutory, voluntary and community organisations that work with children and vulnerable people of the need, to be compliant with vetting legislation.

Rank-and-file gardaí have welcomed moves to open up the force to religious and ethnic minorities by allowing members wear turbans, hijabs and possibly other items of cultural importance.

However, approximately one in three people believe that community relations with police are poor.

Homelessness champion Alice Leahy said a cheque for €33,000 raised by gardaí through the sale of a commemorative book will be of “enormous” benefit to her organisation.

Drew Harris has been named as the new Garda Commissioner.

Five candidates are in the running for the Garda commissioner job, the Irish Examiner understands.

None of the journalists whom former Garda press officer Supt David Taylor says were told lies in an effort to discredit whistleblower Maurice McCabe have backed up those claims.

The heads of two policing oversight bodies have signalled that selection and promotion processes in the gardaí need to be overhauled in order to combat perceptions of favouritism and unfairness.

The first batch of recruits to a heavily depleted traffic corps have been taken on as part of a five-year plan to bring its strength back to pre-austerity levels.

Gsoc has been denied access to confidential records in the Garda’s Security & Intelligence Section in relation to Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot Garda Tony Golden dead and almost killed his estranged partner Siobhan Phillips in October 2015.

The Garda chief has said that all of the country’s divisional commanders have told him that the lack of frontline supervision of garda members was a problem.

A Garda finding that their public order operation at the Jobstown water charge protest in November 2014 was a success was described as “an extraordinary conclusion” at the Policing Authority yesterday.

Senior gardaí estimate it would cost almost €7m over a period of 28 years to examine all Garda phone calls recording breath tests.

The father of missing woman Deirdre Jacob told a packed room, including the justice minister, that the way cases are investigated is “not good enough”.

The Policing Authority has expressed serious concern at the sharp drop in the detection by gardaí of sexual crimes and the rise this year in recorded assaults.

Detection rates for sex crimes are down by almost a fifth, a Garda watchdog has been told.

Acting Commissioner Donal Ó Cualáin has called on frontline members who claim they were pressurised by managers into faking breath test figures to “give names” of those responsible.

Senior gardaí admit the fake breath test scandal has "damaged the reputation" of the force, but new recruits say they are excited to be joining at such "an exciting time".

Latest: The Justice Minister has suggested the search for a new Garda Commissioner may spread abroad.

Opposition parties are demanding to know if the Government did a special deal with Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan over her shock resignation.

At least three people were killed and 12 others injured when a dilapidated three-storey building collapsed in a poor neighbourhood of Karachi, Pakistan police said.

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.

The Public Accounts Committee will hear from more senior Gardaí today, as it continues its probe into financial irregularities at the Garda Training College in Templemore.

Rape crisis centres, women’s groups and the Policing Authority have welcomed the establishment of four divisional specialist units to investigate domestic, sexual and child abuse.

Fresh Garda documents sent to the Public Accounts Committee reveal deep divisions among senior civil servants within An Garda Síochána.

An event has taken place to remember those who have passed away while serving for the Garda Síochána.

Government can breathe easy it won’t lose a second commissioner for now, writes Michael Clifford.

The Policing Authority delivered a blow to Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan yesterday by turning down her request for the Garda Inspectorate to examine the breath test scandal.

A 24-hour dedicated phoneline for the reporting of child sexual abuse, both current and historic, is being launched today.

The tribunal of inquiry into the alleged smear campaign against Maurice McCabe will also include the treatment of other whistleblowers.

Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Gardaí have warned the bosses of the Kinahan crime cartel that they are intent on arresting them abroad and bringing them back home to face justice.

It has taken years of effort to get allegations of malpractice in An Garda Síochána heard, writes TD Clare Daly

The O’Higgins report says any disciplinary proceedings against gardaí, which might conceivably arise out of his investigation, ‘would not be helpful’, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Gardaí suspect dissident republican Michael Barr was shot dead because it was believed by the Kinahan cartel he provided a “safe house” to one of the gunmen in the Regency Hotel attack.