The mother of missing six-year-old Mary Boyle says she knows the man who has been arrested in connection with her daughter’s disappearance in 1977.

A man has been arrested by gardaí today in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a six-year-old girl in 1977.

Claims by the acting Garda commissioner, Noirín O’Sullivan, that senior Garda management are in contact with Sergeant Maurice McCabe over ongoing harassment have been rejected by sources close to him.

Up to 900 Gardaí have been tasked to police the border region for the forthcoming G8 Summit in Co Fermanagh.

A child’s car seat and a mechanic’s hammer could hold the key to the identity of the gang who murdered Det Gda Adrian Donohoe.

A child’s car seat and a mechanic’s hammer could hold the key to the identity of the gang who murdered Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.

Gardaí say the investigation into the murder of Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth over four weeks ago is progressing well.

The top garda in the North-West was attacked in his car twice as his wife and daughter looked on in horror.

A fresh investigation into the disappearance 35 years ago of Mary Boyle, Ireland’s longest-missing person, is being conducted by An Garda Síochána.

RATHNEW were sensationally knocked off their senior football throne in Wicklow yesterday as amalgamated side St. Mary’s, coached by Karl O’Dwyer, secured a shock victory in the county final at Aughrim.

Champion Irish horse trainer Aidan O’Brien has been hit with a bill for more than €500,000 for unpaid tax.

A TOP-of-the-bill SFC quarter-final between county champions Rathnew and Blessington was marred by ugly scenes at Aughrim yesterday.

Devastated communities were beginning the harrowing task today of arranging eight funerals of loved ones killed in the country's worst ever road accident.

THE mother of one of the victims in the state’s worst road accident has spoken of her heartbreak at losing a son “with a heart of gold”.

SEVEN friends were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record after watching Spain win the World Cup.

Seven friends were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record in the country after watching Spain win the World Cup, it was revealed tonight.

A horror crash in which eight men died was today called the worst on record in the Republic of Ireland.

The murder of an innocent schoolgirl almost four decades ago was tonight being investigated in the wake of two harrowing reports into the cover-up of clerical abuse.

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

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

Gardaí were today continuing to investigate the murder of a 39-year-old man who was gunned down close to his Sligo home.

The Garda Inspectorate is to examine the shooting of an armed man who barricaded himself in his home in Gort, Co Galway, for almost a day.

Gardaí today appealed for information after a walker was found with serious injuries in a park in south Dublin.

A mother whose daughter went missing seven years ago wants a dedicated garda unit to be established to lead investigations into disappeared people, writes John Breslin.

AGE-ENHANCED photographs of missing young people will be posted on a new website set up by the gardaí but linked to an internationally renowned centre that tracks disappeared children.