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.

A group calling itself Republican Action Against Drugs has admitted killing a man in Donegal and warned more deaths could follow.

The gang who murdered Andrew Allen in Co Donegal tried to force their way into his house before shooting several shots into a downstairs bedroom.

Gardaí have refused to blame any group in the shooting of a man in Co Donegal yesterday.

A Northern Ireland man was jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for the dissident republican murder of a man shot dead in a church car park in Co. Donegal almost four years ago.

A man from the North has today been found guilty by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of the murder of a man shot dead in a church car park in Co Donegal almost four years ago.

The Special Criminal Court has today ruled that statements made by a man admitting his part in the murder of a man in Co Donegal more than three years ago can be admitted in evidence.

GARDAÍ were last night continuing to question four men following a spate of arson attacks across the Inishowen peninsula in Co Donegal.

The trial of three men from the North men charged with membership of the IRA has heard that none of the accused were under surveillance before their arrest.

THE sole survivor of the country’s worst road crash that claimed the lives of eight men in July has been interviewed by gardaí.

Gardaí are seeking to interview three people in relation to the murder of Donegal man Andrew Burns who was shot dead outside a church more than two years ago, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

A Co Tyrone man appeared before Dublin’s Special Criminal Court today charged with murdering a man in Donegal two years ago.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

A Co Donegal man who booked a family holiday in Spain the day he was arrested for IRA membership was told by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he could not travel on the trip.

MULLINGAR clubmates Martin Fagan and Mark Christie could be reunited on the Irish cross-country team for the first time since 2001 when the squad for next month’s SPAR European Cross-Country Championships in Tilburg is announced.

A GARDA sergeant (now an inspector) and the State were sued in the High Court yesterday by a 25-year-old carpenter who claimed the sergeant assaulted him six years ago in a Co Leitrim bar, refused to give an explanation and later brought a malicious prosecution which was dismissed by a District Judge.