GARDAÍ confirmed yesterday contact through Interpol is continuing with authorities in Nepal in relation to the sexual encounters of Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh with teenage boys.

GARDAÍ believe a father of two brutally stabbed to death in a Dublin laneway was murdered after his 4x4 was blocked in by his attacker.

GARDAÍ believe it is only a matter of time before an innocent person is killed if the behaviour of a Dublin terrorist leader continues unchecked.

GARDAÍ are to question a number of people involved in the controversial Liberty pyramid system following formal complaints from investors who lost money in the €20 million scheme.

GARDAÍ last night revealed that a reported kidnapping in Co Cork was made up.

GARDAÍ travelling to Colombia should be able to use evidence gathered by police there to pursue their investigations here into the Colombia Three, a leading legal expert said yesterday.

GARDAÍ will join suspected paramilitaries as the only people in society to be denied the right not to incriminate themselves, rank and file members have warned.

Gardai said tonight that drugs seized in Dublin yesterday and identified as cocaine has turned out to be heroin.

GARDAÍ fear the man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl after luring her into a secluded playground may strike again.

GARDAÍ believe there is no connection between two suspected backstreet abortions on non-national women, both of which reportedly took place in Dublin last March.

GARDAÍ believe a car found burnt out and abandoned near a quarry in Wexford was involved in a fatal hit and run in which a 20-year-old man died on Sunday.

GARDAÍ are still trying to establish a motive for the gangland-style shooting of a man in Dublin.

A woman has been released without charge by gardaí

Gardai have recovered five paintings stolen from Russborough house in Blessington last September.