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

Foraging to eat is so last year, says Jonathan deBurca Butler. Instead, go for a walk in the countryside and pluck from the trees, the ingredients for a gin and tonic

The closure of almost 100 Garda stations has gone ahead as an unrepentant Alan Shatter insisted policing would not be damaged by the move.

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 attacked a plaque erected to a garda killed in the line of duty and then dumped it outside his girlfriend’s house.

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 officers are calling for an independent review of the gang problem in the country’s jails.

Three prisoners have been returned to custody after absconding from an open prison yesterday.

Grassroots garda officers have unleashed a scathing attack on Justice Minister Alan Shatter, accusing him of being soft on crime.

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.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has today apologised for the transfer of a Garda-killer to a low-security prison, from which he later escaped.

The Director General of the Irish Prison Service Michael Donnellan has apologised unreservedly for the decision to move an inmate from the Midlands prison to an open centre in Co. Cavan, from which he escaped twice.

It has emerged that a prisoner who escaped from an open prison earlier this month had absconded from the same facility once before.

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.

Convicted garda killer Martin McDermott has appeared at Derry Magistrates Court today on charges connected to his arrest in Derry last Friday.

A court in Derry has remanded Martin McDermott in custody, charged with assaulting three police officers, resisting a police officer, disorderly behaviour and criminal damage.

The Donegal man who escaped from a prison in Co Cavan on Thursday night has appeared before Derry magistrates court today.

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

It was an outrage that Martin McDermott, 26, was sentenced to just seven years for killing Garda Gary McLoughlin.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has ordered an investigation into how a Garda killer caught on the run in the North escaped from prison.

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

A manhunt is underway for a prisoner who escaped from a low-security jail in Co Cavan last night.

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

The 24-year-old man involved in a traffic collision with a garda patrol car which resulted in the death of Garda Gary McLoughlin has been discharged from hospital today.

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.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to visit Buncrana Garda Station in Co Donegal later to pay his respects to the colleagues of a young garda who was killed following a crash yesterday morning.

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 YOUNG garda was fighting for his life last night and another officer was hospitalised after a high-speed chase ended in a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver.

A SON of former minister and MEP Mark Killilea has been killed in a single-vehicle car accident in Co Galway.

A small rural community was plunged in to mourning today after two young friends were killed in a road crash.

MARK HARRINGTON scored the decisive goal approaching half-time as Douglas overwhelmed weakened Clonakilty in a one-sided Evening Echo Cork SFC first round tie at Brinny yesterday.

THE controversy following the Munster Club Senior Football League final, in which Douglas are adamant they defeated Austin Stacks by a point only to be told by Waterford referee Sean Michael Kelly the game was a draw, rages on.

Austin Stacks 1-11 Douglas 2-8

IF ever a player epitomises what his club means to him it’s Niall Cahalane.

THE second semi-final of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup has added spice in that it is an all-Cork affair between UCC and Cork IT at the Mardyke today (2pm).