An armed raider demanded money from staff at a betting office and then turned on a customer but fled the scene empty-handed, a court heard.

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.

The organs of a garda who took his own life have been transplanted to five people, an inquest has heard.

A garda who died following a tragic shooting incident was remembered at his requiem Mass as a kind, thoughtful and outgoing young man who loved his job and treated all people with respect.

Stunned colleagues of the garda who took his life this week paid emotional tributes to a man they described as exceptional as his family prepare to bury him today.

The popular garda involved in a tragic shooting at the weekend has died at Kerry General Hospital.

Heartbroken relatives of the garda critically injured in a tragic shooting incident in Tralee, Co Kerry, gathered at his bedside late last night to hold a poignant prayer service.

TWO gardaí will be sentenced in November after they were found guilty last night by a jury of offences arising out of an assault on a man on the street in January 2010.

A GARDA has been found guilty of assaulting a man who resisted arrest while another garda has been found guilty of intending to pervert the course of the justice by diverting a CCTV camera while the assault was taking place.

A 16-year-old teenager suspected by gardai of “preying on tourists” was remanded in custody today after he was charged over a violent mugging of a woman, in Dublin city centre.