Schoolchildren are spreading the message about the importance of wearing seatbelts and being visible on roads at night, and some of the best campaigns were rewarded yesterday.

Two gardaí have been found to be in breach of discipline after they drove past a man after he collapsed suffering from a heart attack.

Police departments across Europe have announced a continent-wide crackdown on driving under the influence of drink and drugs in the run-up to Christmas.

An IRA man jailed after a suspected spy ring was unearthed has lost the final leg of legal battles to stop the courts accepting confidential evidence from senior gardaí.

A mayor has admitted that he is frightened to walk through his own city centre after dark.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today dismissed three men's appeals against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

A court has issued an order prohibiting a convicted sex offender from using social networking websites or posing as a film maker looking for child models.

A Garda Chief Superintendent has told the Special Criminal Court it is his belief a Dublin man on trial for IRA membership is a member of the IRA.

A legal challenge by shooting enthusiasts to the Garda refusal to grant them licences for restricted firearms has been settled.

LIMERICK’S 815th mayor has vowed to make the promotion of the city centre a key priority during his term in office.

A Garda Chief Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that she believed a Co Donegal man was an IRA member in 2010.

Thousands of workers are expected to march through Dublin tomorrow as part of a national demonstration against Government cuts.

SCORES of young people were spilling out of the pubs in Buncrana on Sunday night when the revelry was interrupted by the sirens of fire brigades, ambulances and gardaí rushing through the town shortly before 11pm.

SPECULATION intensified in Limerick last night that a major breakthrough has been made in the Shane Geoghegan murder investigation.

GARDAÍ believe that people with inside knowledge of the murder of Dundalk mother Irene White could hold the key to finally solving the crime and bringing the culprit to justice.

Young Scottish women are travelling to Dublin to spend the weekend working as prostitutes, Irish vice squad detectives said today.

A Dublin Sinn Féin member who was jailed for four years for IRA membership and who was freed on bail last month pending an appeal went back to prison voluntarily today.

A Dublin Sinn Féin member who was jailed for four years for IRA membership was freed on bail by the Court of Criminal Appeal today pending the outcome of a legal challenge to anti terrorist legislation.

OPPOSITION politicians have demanded an independent investigation into garda failure to have a trained negotiator at the scene of a murder where the killer turned the shotgun on himself hours later.

A GARDA chief in Limerick admitted yesterday he feared for the safety of his officers from heavily armed gangs.

An armed gang that stole two old masters worth more than £3m from an art collection in Co Wicklow were tonight thought to have slipped out of the area - despite having to flee on foot.