A man was shot dead at close range by a gunman as he made his way to work 11 years ago, an inquest heard.

A pensioner who took an indecent photo of a young child and sent it to a man she met online has been jailed.

Police in Liverpool are investigating after an Irishman was left in a critical condition following an assault outside a nightclub in the city.

A life sentence has been handed down to a 36-year-old ‘bare knuckle boxer’ for murdering his wife in an assault with "a baton-like instrument" that lasted an hour and 20 minutes in their home in Dundalk three years ago.

Some 45 successful candidates for promotion to senior ranks in the Garda Síochána have been officially notified.

Police investigating the deaths of eight children at a house in Australia have said they are talking to a woman who is being cared for in hospital, and who is believed to be the mother of seven of the children.

A armed robber who was caught with a loaded shotgun outside a family home in Cork last year has been jailed for 14 years.

A plumber on trial for manslaughter arising out of a gas leak at the Trident hotel in Kinsale, Co Cork, had told gardaí he had tested the boiler for possible leaks with a computerised testing device. But the accused later stated he had not done so.

Cases involving Asian men convicted of cannabis cultivation are being reviewed by gardaí over fears they were actually victims of human trafficking and have been imprisoned for crimes they were forced to commit.

Gardaí found the body of a newborn baby boy in the toilet of a house in Cork City last summer.

MERCHANT’S QUAY in Limerick was bristling with armed gardaí, TV cameras, photographers, journalists, and curious onlookers.

A man described as the local "fixer" for a human trafficking organisation which exploited vulnerable children is to be deported from this country.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

The family of Katy French have welcomed the open verdict returned at the inquest at Meath Coroner’s Court into the death of the model.

A man has been given four concurrent life sentences for murdering two women and two children.

A highly respected Garda detective collapsed and died yesterday at a local sports facility in Co Clare.

A man has been jailed after he was caught with €1.7m, part of the proceeds of a bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee.

A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Shane Rossiter, who was shot dead in Tipperary in October.

Two of the top three positions in the Garda’s specialist agency combating fraud are now vacant.

The leader of a €440m transatlantic cocaine trafficking plot which failed because of a fuel mix-up has been jailed for 20 years.

An Irishman arrested in Birmingham faces extradition to Ireland to face charges connected to the shooting of a teenager in Dublin six years ago.

A 16-year-old boy was last night being held in Limerick in connection with an armed tiger kidnapping which gardaí uncovered when checking out a suspect vehicle.

Retired consultant surgeon Michael Shine is to stand trial accused of indecently assaulting 16 young males over three decades.

An unemployed dance teacher who falsely accused 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has suffered from post-traumatic stress for more than a decade, a court has heard.

Detectives believe that a “spotter” gave information to a gunman who shot dead a father of three in a Dublin pub exactly a month ago.

The trial of two Louth men accused of possessing explosive substances has heard evidence from detectives who placed the pair under surveillance as part of a garda operation on the suspected manufacture of vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices by the IRA.

A MAN described as a “Walter Mitty type” has apologised in court after admitting he concocting bogus allegations that he was sexually assaulted by X Factor judge Louis Walsh.

A 28-YEAR-OLD man jailed by the Special Criminal Court in connection with extortion threatened to kill a prison officer while in custody on another matter, a court has heard.

A DANCE teacher was charged with making a false accusation that he was groped by X Factor judge Louis Walsh in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub.

A FEARED Limerick criminal who booked into a hotel carrying an Uzi submachine gun fitted with a silencer in his luggage was planning a feud gang killing, gardaí believe.

A SENIOR garda has won his appeal against a district court judge’s decision to hold him in contempt of court.

A 22-YEAR-OLD man charged yesterday for last weekend’s double murder told the judge he was “stitched up”.

A mother in England faces a long prison sentence today after admitting killing her 21-month-old son by doping him to make him sleep.

A south Dublin man who slashed four neighbours with a knife told gardaí he had smoked cannabis beforehand and had been smoking it every night for about 20 years.

Sentence on a former Garda sergeant for child trafficking has been adjourned due to his hospitalisation following a suicide attempt last Friday.

A retired Detective Inspector has told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of how Donald Tidey was rescued from terrorist kidnappers in Co Leitrim in 1983 after a three-week ordeal.

FIVE people were arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting of a six-year-old girl in Limerick city last weekend.

A JUDGE yesterday described a former Department of Defence engineer as “a neighbour from hell” and denied his appeal against a garda refusal to grant him a firearms licence.

A gunman who blasted a garda sergeant with a shotgun in a cocaine-crazed incident arising from a feud between members of two west Dublin families has been given a 12-year sentence.

A detective inspector has told how gardaí found a large number of mobile phones in raids in October 2005 on two Dublin city centre premises linked to a brothel operation.

GARDAÍ are hoping for a breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of a frail Cork pensioner when his last-known movements are re-enacted on Crimecall tonight.

A nightclub boss wrongly arrested in a botched murder investigation in Donegal today claimed he was a millionaire until he battled to clear his family name.

GARDAÍ have made a direct appeal to criminals, particularly those in prison, to “do the honourable thing” if they have information in connection with the murder of Latvian murder Baiba Saulite.

A RETIRED detective superintendent yesterday branded as ridiculous the suggestion a false statement had been used as a catalyst in the hope of getting a man to confess to murder.