A potentially life-saving defibrillator, that was stolen from outside a shop in Co Louth, has been found.

The armed support unit in Co Louth is “stretched to the limit” as it battles to cover the escalating gang feud in Drogheda, rampaging ATM gangs and patrolling the border as far as Co Cavan.

Gardaí in Drogheda, Co Louth, are investigating more than 70 individual incidents directly related to a feud since last summer, it has emerged.

Gardaí have arrested three men in connection with a fire in Drogheda, Co Louth, which left a woman in her 70s injured.

An onlooker to a nightclub brawl has lost his sense of smell after being struck by a security man, a court heard.