Garda killer Martin McDermott has signed himself into hospital north of the border so gardaí cannot catch up with him.

Garda killer Martin McDermott is on the run again after he was involved in a serious road smash which almost killed him.

An Offaly man who slammed a garda into a shop front, causing her severe injuries, has been ordered to carry out 240 hours community service.

A judge has called for Taser stun guns to be issued to gardaí to deal with out-of-control public order incidents.

The garda killer who walked out of a minimum security prison eight months after being jailed for manslaughter has been extradited back from the North to serve the rest of his sentence.

Vandals have been slammed for destroying a plaque left at the scene of a Co Donegal collision which resulted in the death of Garda Gary McLoughlin.

Prison chief Michael Donnellan apologised “completely and unreservedly” yesterday for the decision to transfer garda killer Martin McDermott from a closed jail to an open prison.

The family of Garda Gary McLoughlin have expressed their shock and upset that the man found responsible for his death was sent to a low security prison from which he was able to escape.

A garda killer who escaped from an open prison faces multiple charges in Derry, it has emerged.

A garda killer who went on the run after escaping a low security prison has been caught in the North.

A prisoner who killed a garda was on the run last night after escaping from a prison in Cavan.

THE heart was ripped out of an entire village by the death of a young garda who was killed after a car ploughed into his patrol vehicle, his state funeral heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and Tánaiste Mary Coughlan visited the north Donegal town of Buncrana to pay their respects following the death of 24-year-old Garda Gary McLoughlin who died from injuries he received when a vehicle ploughed into his patrol car at the weekend.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today led tributes to the young garda who died today after being injured in a head-on car crash.

A construction worker who told gardaí he found cocaine with a street value of €24,000 "while out walking" has been given a six-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Anthony Hunt has lashed out in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court at what he called "this trend in modern society for violence to be used as a first resort" in a case which arose from a trivial incident in a chipper.