The Garda's security chief talks to Cormac O'Keeffe about dissidents, Brexit and the jihadist threat.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is disappointed that rank and file gardai have rejected the findings of a report into the breath test scandal.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said the latest findings into the investigation of falsely recorded breath tests are "astonishing."

A major revamp of the Garda Síochána's security and firearms operations was instituted yesterday.

An assistant garda commissioner has defended the controversial closing of garda stations.

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The trial of three former Anglo directors has been hearing of the turbulence the bank experienced in the wake of the bank guarantee.

The Anglo trial has heard evidence from a senior director at the bank who said he was in "complete shock" at finding out former billionaire Sean Quinn had built up a 28% stake in the bank.

Gardaí are appealing to motorists to think road safety today.

Cian McCarthy has won a starting place on the Cork team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC final replay against Clare at Croke Park (throw-in 5pm).

Cork hurling manager Jimmy Barry Murphy has named his team to face Clare in the All-Ireland hurling final on Sunday, with Brian Murphy the only change from the team that beat Dublin.

Cork manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy has selected an unchanged team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Fatigue is believed to be a factor in one in five driver deaths in Ireland.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 19-year-old man in connection with a serious assault in Dublin.

There has been widespread shock and condemnation following the drive-by shooting of a 16-year-old boy.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy has paired league debutant Darren Sweetnam and Seán Óg Ó hAilpín together in midfield for Cork's opening Allianz Hurling League encounter with Waterford on Saturday night.

In a week when Lar Corbett withdrew from the squad, Tipperary manager Declan Ryan suffered another setback when Patrick 'Bonner' Maher was carried off with a leg injury during today's Waterford Crystal Cup semi-final.

The mother of two young footballers at the centre of a 'Parish rule' row stormed out of a Kerry County Committee meeting last night before votes on the matter were counted.

No candidate has reached the quota in the Cork South West constituency. Six candidates have been eliminated - candidates Butler, Doonan, Kearney, McCaughey, McInenerty and Michael O'Sullivan.

Two men were refused bail today after they were charged with false imprisonment and robbery of €134,000 in connection with a Tiger kidnapping in Dublin last January.

The 24-year-old man who died in a collision between a motorcycle and a car in Tralee yesterday has been named as Michael O'Sullivan from Rathkeale, Co Limerick.

There was a muted response on the markets yesterday to the publication of the four year plan and little has changed so far this morning.

Spending cuts in tomorrow's Budget could be at the expense of long-term economic growth according to a leading European economist.

The body of an Irish tourist who went missing in Laos last week has been recovered from a river in the north of the country.

Gardaí have named the three men who died in a two-car collision in the Ballintra area of Co Donegal over the weekend.

THE Government needs to legislate for the mandatory vetting of all people with unsupervised access to children, a leading rights group said yesterday.

Coláiste Chríost Rí 2-9 Limerick City Colleges 2-6

TWO players each from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will qualify to compete in the 2004 Sky Bet World Grand Prix and get the chance to mix it with the big guns of world darts.

Clare 0-11 Cork 0-14

A Corkman who was left in a coma after an attack and died nine months later was in a "deeply comatose" state, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Cork 2-9 Mayo 0-10

A mother-of-two who shot her husband dead with a shotgun she had bought him weeks earlier should not be jailed, so she can continue caring for her children, a court heard today.

I WISH to comment on the much publicised wedding of Georgina Ahern and Nicky Byrne.

I’D like to offer my support to Minister Micheál Martin in his effort to ban smoking from the workplace.

A 21-year-old college student was killed when an Algerian chip shop owner knocked him down in his jeep after the vicitm threatened to report him for assaulting his friend, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

Cork football boss Larry Tompkins has caused a stir by omitting five key players from his 2003 panel.

A Nigerian man who drove down Henry Street in Dublin at 60 mph knocking down shoppers like "skittles in a bowling alley" has been jailed for five years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne.

A Nigerian man drove down a busy pedestrianised street at 60 mph knocking down shoppers like "skittles in a bowling alley", Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

OUTSTANDING captain Colin Corkery accepted last night that Cork got out of jail in Sunday's Bank of Ireland, Munster SFC final clash with Tipperary at Semple Stadium.

MORE than €1.5 billion was wiped off the value of Irish shares yesterday in another black day for investors.