More than 100 newly promoted garda sergeants have been allocated to their positions.

Gardaí have vowed to bring to justice those behind the murder of a teenager whose remains were found in Dublin.

Garda bosses have described the murder and dismemberment of a 17-year-old boy as “savage”, “shocking” and “unacceptable”.

Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

More than 40 gardaí and eight support crew members have cycled 280km from Dublin to Cork to raise funds for sick children and their families.

Public trust in An Garda Síochána has increased over the last two years, according to the Annual Garda Public Attitudes Survey 2018.

Insurance companies may be asked to provide financial support to help fund investigations into fraudulent claims.

Garda bosses say up to 90% of recommendations to improve public order policing will be implemented by the end of the year, with the rest following early in 2020.

A mixed-ability crew is hoisting sails late afternoon for the first fundraising voyage of its kind from Ireland to help people with life-changing spinal injuries.

More gardaí may come under the scrutiny of an internal probe into alleged corruption following the dramatic arrest of three members, including a high-ranking officer.

Latest: A Garda Inspector arrested as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in the force has been released without charge.

Garda commissioner, Drew Harris, and senior officers have been accused of putting road users' lives at risk after it emerged that they are failing to stop nine out of every 10 disqualified drivers from continuing to drive on Irish roads.

The new unit was confirmed at the first ever Garda National Vetting Conference.

An Garda Síochána has advised statutory, voluntary and community organisations that work with children and vulnerable people of the need, to be compliant with vetting legislation.

Rank-and-file gardaí have welcomed moves to open up the force to religious and ethnic minorities by allowing members wear turbans, hijabs and possibly other items of cultural importance.

However, approximately one in three people believe that community relations with police are poor.

Homelessness champion Alice Leahy said a cheque for €33,000 raised by gardaí through the sale of a commemorative book will be of “enormous” benefit to her organisation.

Crime victimisation rates have increased but reporting rates have fallen in the last year, a public survey shows.

Some 29 people — 26 men and three women — were considered for the Garda Commissioner job.

Drew Harris has been named as the new Garda Commissioner.

The heads of two policing oversight bodies have signalled that selection and promotion processes in the gardaí need to be overhauled in order to combat perceptions of favouritism and unfairness.

The first batch of recruits to a heavily depleted traffic corps have been taken on as part of a five-year plan to bring its strength back to pre-austerity levels.

Information on the number of applications for the post of Garda Commissioner is being kept under wraps.

The number of people who have applied to be Garda Commissioner is being kept under wraps.

Frontline Garda bosses believe that Brexit will result in a “massive draw” on resources back to the border, with major implications for Garda divisions and national units.

Despite losing Austin Gleeson to injury, Mount Sion overcame fierce rivals Roanmore 2-12 to 1-14 at Walsh Park on Saturday night.

There were almost 17 more homicides on average every year over the last 14 years than were previously recorded, according to heavily qualified official statistics.

The Garda chief has said that all of the country’s divisional commanders have told him that the lack of frontline supervision of garda members was a problem.

There will be a “significant increase” to previous homicide statistics when the CSO resumes publication of crime data next week.

A Garda finding that their public order operation at the Jobstown water charge protest in November 2014 was a success was described as “an extraordinary conclusion” at the Policing Authority yesterday.

The chairman of the Disclosures Tribunal said he would have to consider if there was any evidence of a “dark truth” that the former garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan or other senior officers were “going after” Sgt McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission.

Senior gardaí estimate it would cost almost €7m over a period of 28 years to examine all Garda phone calls recording breath tests.

Three people have been arrested after a garda and a civilian were shot during a planned search of a house in Dublin.

The father of missing woman Deirdre Jacob told a packed room, including the justice minister, that the way cases are investigated is “not good enough”.

Satisfaction among victims who report their crimes to gardaí has dropped dramatically in the last year, from almost two-thirds’ satisfaction to just half.

Objectors to the proposed €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway say it would split communities, cause increased physical and mental health problems, reduce life expectancy, and significantly devalue their properties.

The Policing Authority has expressed serious concern at the sharp drop in the detection by gardaí of sexual crimes and the rise this year in recorded assaults.

Latest: The number of assaults is on course to exceed Garda targets by 15% by the end of the year.

Detection rates for sex crimes are down by almost a fifth, a Garda watchdog has been told.