EVEN the most ardent, one-eyed champion of An Garda Síochána would have to concede that the force’s credibility took a battering over the penalty points scandal and how two whistleblowers — Sergeant Maurice McCabe and former Garda John Wilson — were treated so poorly by the force’s officer corps. 

The murder of Elaine O’Hara has had “profound and devastating consequences” for a number of people and will affect families for many years, the commander of the Garda investigation said yesterday.

Cormac O’Keeffe catalogues the painstaking policing and investigative work, as well as the chance discoveries, that contributed to the conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. (This article was originally published in March 2015)

A woman travelling by train from Dublin to Cork became so concerned about the actions of a 69-year-old man on board that gardaí were contacted and they arrested him.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with stabbing a motorist who remonstrated over a bottle thrown at his car. The motorist was stabbed just below his ribcage.

A father who became frustrated with his colicky, eight-week-old baby shook him until he became limp and an ambulance had to be called to rush the child to hospital.

ONE garda was hospitalised with a serious eye injury and his colleague was chased by a man with a slash hook after a disturbance at a Travellers’ campsite on Sunday morning and early afternoon.