Nóirín O’Sullivan has had luck on her side but she will have to perform her new role under greater scrutiny than any of her predecessors have faced, writes Michael Clifford

A Garda station is not just bricks and mortars, as a certain minister has suggested.

The Deputy Garda Commissioner admits there are concerns over possible retaliation for yesterday's two gangland murders.

Noirin O'Sullivan has been named as the new Deputy Garda Commissioner.

Deputy Commissioner Martin Callinan is to head An Garda Siochana from the end of the month, it was announced today.

THE country’s leading criminal judge yesterday said female jurors were, in his experience, the “harshest critics” of female complainants in trials.

A former Deputy Garda Commissioner has said gardaí who failed children who were being abused by members of the Church should be prosecuted.

FIGURES revealing the scale of gangland crime show an alarming rise in murders and shootings in the past three months.

JUSTICE MINISTER Dermot Ahern said recent legislation he brought in will help combat the sharp rise in gangland crime.

A top-ranking Garda officer was today appointed to a newly-created role in charge of driving reform of the force.

Websites offering commuters footage of Dublin rush-hour traffic went down today as Operation Freeflow got under way in the capital.

The Operation Freeflow traffic management plan for Dublin will swing into action at 6.30am tomorrow.

The Operation Freeflow traffic management plan for Dublin will swing into force on Monday, it emerged tonight.

An Garda Siochana was tonight facing radical shake-up of its top brass.

SOME people have been suggesting that Catherine Butler’s interview in The Village magazine is a Fianna Fáil attempt to rehabilitate Charles Haughey, but publisher Vincent Brown has more reason than anyone to realise that the role played by Fine Gael and Labour in the telephone tapping was the height of hypocrisy.

THE motoring public was warned yesterday there are now 35 ways of losing a driving licence.

A Government taskforce must be set up to tackle violent crimes against gay people following a number of attacks in the capital, it was warned today.

Gardaí have launched a massive crime prevention campaign aimed at encouraging members of the gay community to report any homophobic incidents.

THE number of pedestrians killed on Dublin roads has doubled in the past year.

A UN report by Deputy Garda Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri demanded a new international investigation after determining that Lebanon’s authorities bungled, if not outright manipulated, their probe of the killing.

Three senior gardaí are due to travel to Lebanon today to investigate the assassination of the country's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

ALMOST two years after a dedicated traffic corps was first promised by the Government, neither the Department of Transport nor the Department of Justice can say when the measure will finally be introduced.

THE Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is investigating claims that drug addicts injecting themselves on the streets are not being arrested by gardaí.

Justice minister, Michael McDowell, today demanded a report from gardai after men were photographed injecting drugs just yards away from officers in the heart of Dublin’s Temple Bar.

Two senior gardai have been chosen for the UN fact-finding mission that is due to go to Jenin in the West Bank.