GARDAÍ have smashed a gang who were using an oil tanker to steal home heating oil from hundreds of houses.

The British authorities have dropped plans to extradite two IRA men who escaped from London's Brixton prison 18 years ago, it was confirmed today.

One of Ireland’s highest-ranking police officers is to testify that a chef arrested in a money-laundering investigation after the Northern Bank raid was an IRA member at the time.

ANGRY rows broke out at two city council meetings last night as motions were passed calling on the Government not to release the killers of Garda Detective Jerry McCabe.