ONE in every 20 vehicles could be on the road without either tax or insurance, according to data gathered by gardaí using new vehicle recognition technology.

Motorists were warned to avoid driving near the Wicklow mountains tonight due to dangerous road conditions.

Gardaí will be out in force over the Christmas period and they are urging motorists to take care and slow down.

Drivers are being warned they face the full rigours of the law if they engage in dangerous driving this Christmas.

MOTORISTS may soon be required to used dipped headlights during daylight hours under plans being considered by the Road Safety Authority.

A TOP hotel has been named Cork business of the year for its high level of service and for creating vibrancy in the city’s docklands area.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork, and senior members of the gardaí and the Defence Forces gathered at City Hall last night to pay tribute to Assistant Garda Commissioner Kevin Ludlow, who is being transferred to policing duties in the south-east region.

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has announced a series of appointments at senior Garda management level.

AN ASSISTANT Garda commissioner is to be appointed to head policing in the southern region as part of a reshuffle of senior garda personnel.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of INLA membership who were arrested during a garda investigation into a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

A Strabane man accused of INLA membership was shot in the back by the INLA and is confined to a wheelchair as a result, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

Up to 100 garda officers launched a wave of dawn raids across Limerick today in a planned crackdown on the city’s feuding gangs.

The Assistant Garda Commissioner has said around 90 gardaí are now involved in the murder investigation of Limerick man Roy Collins.

The Assistant Garda Commissioner Kevin Ludlow has said gardaí are determined to face down the ruthless criminal gangs operating in Limerick following the murder of Roy Collins.

MURDERED Limerick man Shane Geoghegan earned admiration on the rugby field as a Garryowen captain.

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has made changes in senior ranks of the force in the southern region.

GARDAÍ are searching for a knife attacker who stabbed two English brothers while they were on a stag weekend in Cork city.

TWO well-known gardaí serving in Cork and Limerick have been promoted to the rank of assistant Garda commissioner.

THE top ranks of An Garda Síochána will undergo a large revamp in the coming weeks as eight senior positions are filled.

THE EARLY morning knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse in West Cork didn’t only herald the arrival of air-sea rescue helicopters. It led to the biggest drugs case in the history of the State.

A DIFFERENT type of Garda reserve was rolled out in Cork city yesterday.

THREE men are due to appear at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin this morning after gardaí foiled a tiger kidnapping plot by a dissident republican organisation in Cork city.

GARDAÍ investigating last week’s record €107 million cocaine haul were examining fresh evidence last night recovered from the seabed off Cork.

Gardaí have obtained a 47-hour extension to allow them to continue to question two Englishmen arrested last week in connection with the €100m cocaine discovery near Mizen Head in West Cork.

GARDAÍ have smashed a major cocaine distribution ring following a raid on a drug-mixing factory in Cork and the seizure of an estimated €1 million worth of the drug.

GARDAÍ will target major drug dealers and serious crime figures in Cork this year as part of a new policing strategy.

THE family of murdered Dundalk forestry worker Seamus Ludlow yesterday repeated demands for an independent public inquiry into the death.

The family of murdered Dundalk forestry worker Seamus Ludlow today repeated demands for an independent public inquiry into the death.

The brother of a Co Louth man killed by loyalist paramilitaries 30 years ago has accused Gardaí of continually lying about the case.

A SENIOR garda has claimed his force’s resources are so “finite” that they will need the help of communities and Government agencies to combat the growing trend in anti-social behaviour.

A FORMER Garda Commissioner has rejected allegations he was involved in blocking the pursuit of the suspected killers of Seamus Ludlow.

The family of Seamus Ludlow today demanded an apology from the Gardaí over the investigation into their brother’s death in 1976.

GLASSES and bottles could be banned from nightclubs in a radical clampdown on street violence.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is considering whether criminal charges should be brought against armed gardaí who shot dead two raiders in a trap last May.

THE investigation into the Air India crash is ongoing and arrests may yet be made, according to the man leading the hunt for terrorists who blew up flight 182, exactly 20 years ago today.

GARDA Commissioner Noel Conroy yesterday warned armed criminals gardaí would fight back if the public was put at risk.

A man was today charged in connection with a foiled armed robbery in Dublin in which two men were shot dead by gardaí.

Amnesty International tonight called for an independent inquiry into the killing of two armed robbers in a quiet Irish village as Bertie Ahern backed the gardaí involved.

A second man has died after being shot by gardaí during an attempted armed robbery at a post office in north Co Dublin this morning.

Three men have been arrested after a failed raid this morning at a post office in Lusk, north Co Dublin in which one man was killed and another was seriously injured.

A GARDA sergeant who tackled one of the armed men trying to extort cash from his brother-in-law was hailed a hero yesterday and could be in line for a Scott medal for bravery.

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