Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is visiting the US with Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy this week to observe how Americans tackle gang crime.

The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy have held crisis talks to discuss ways to tackle organised crime.

The IRA has completely abandoned all crime in the Irish republic, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy insisted today.

The Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is cutting short his summer holidays to return to Dublin immediately to address the fall-out from the latest Morris Tribunal reports.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has ruled out any link between two bomb attacks on Dublin's northside this week.

Some foreign nationals in Ireland are drinking heavily at weekends and getting involved in fatal road accidents, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy said today.

An anti-drink driving campaign is to be launched today to cut down on road deaths over the festive season.

A KEY witness involved in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation is now claiming she felt under pressure when interviewed by police.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has launched a new campaign to encourage victims of domestic violence to come forward.

The family of the man whose death led to the Morris Tribunal is calling for Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy to resign.

FRANK MCBREARTY junior yesterday said he had not received any offers of compensation from the State in respect of attempts to frame him for a murder that never happened.

GARDAÍ are to revamp a specialist unit tasked with combating cash-in-transit robberies, it emerged yesterday. The decision follows last week’s €2.4 million heist in north Dublin and a €2.1m raid in west Dublin a fortnight previously.

The Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has pledged to provide training for gardaí in the handling of informants, it emerged today.

The Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy today warned gardaí to stop providing information to the media about criminal investigations.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy will meet today to discuss the cross-border battle to smash a massive IRA money-laundering racket.

Huge amounts of cash could be stashed away as part of the IRA’s money laundering operation, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy said today.

THE latest report on binge drinking and its effects comes with the almost mandatory recommendation that draconian taxes be applied to the demon to try and solve the problem. It won’t solve the problem, of course.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell and Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy are due to officially relaunch the Crimestoppers phoneline later today.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is rejecting claims made in today’s Ireland on Sunday that he was summoned to Co Clare to be carpeted by US Secret Service bosses yesterday.

OUTDATED garda stations will be closed and sold to pay for the cost of building new stations, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

One hundred and eighteen new gardaí are graduating from the garda training college in Templemore, Co Tipperary, today.

YOU reported (Irish Examiner, April 26) that 3,000 gardaí were being deployed to the May Day march in Dublin, while an adjacent article dealt with the road carnage predicted for that weekend.

The European Chiefs of Police Task Force is due to meet over the next two days at Dublin Castle.

A representative of the families of the Omagh bombing victims, Victor Barker, is to meet Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy in Dublin later today.

Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy is giving evidence today to the Oireachtas committee investigating the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

THE body of the Irish solider killed while on UN peacekeeping duties in Liberia last month was buried with full military honours in Dublin yesterday.

A delegation from the SDLP in the North has met the Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy in Dublin today.

LEADING members of the political and legal professions came together in Dublin yesterday for the funeral mass of one the country’s best-known barristers, Eamon Leahy.