Gardaí will begin targeting vehicles with broken or inappropriate lighting as part of Operation Light Up today and tomorrow.

Drivers now face penalty points for almost 50 different motoring offences due to a new crackdown on road safety.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has been asked for a report on gun licensing practices by senior officers in the force, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has revealed.

A legal challenge by shooting enthusiasts to the Garda refusal to grant them licences for restricted firearms has been settled.

A High Court challenge by shooting enthusiasts to a garda refusal to grant them firearms licences was adjourned yesterday to facilitate talks between lawyers over the altering by gardaí of application forms.

A number of legal challenges brought by shooting enthusiasts against refusals by gardaí to issue the gun owners with certificates for restricted firearms, has commenced before the High Court.

A gang who brutally battered an Estonian man to death as they hijacked his car may have struck before, it was revealed today.

A gang who brutally battered an Estonian man to death as they hijacked his car may have struck before, it was revealed today.