A Limerick toddler is alive thanks to the quick thinking of two Garda detectives who kept her breathing during a medical emergency in Limerick city centre.

A Shannon grandfather was attacked in the hallway of his home while being terrorised by a group of youths in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2012.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin was today shown a video of three masked men, including one carrying an AK 47 rifle, who told BBC journalists they were the Real IRA and ``capable of waging war against the British state’.

The trial of four men arrested during a Garda operation into suspected dissident activity in Donegal last March has heard that images of “men in balaclavas, camouflaged jackets and holding an AK47” were found during a search of a Transit van.

A brave young student Garda went into the icy waters off Dun Laoghaire pier to help rescue a drowning man, it emerged today.