Gardaí are understood to be monitoring the reaction of radicals here to the bombing attacks in Brussels.

Serious allegations that vulnerable people with intellectual disabilities suffered decades of severe sexual abuse at the hands of a foster care family will be forwarded to the garda commissioner over claims the issue is being covered up.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is targeting the assets and incomes of the country’s seven biggest travelling gangs in a major crackdown.

The North’s power-sharing Executive has been plunged into fresh crisis as the fallout from claims the Provisional IRA still exists intensifies.

The recovery of the remains of three Protestant victims of the IRA has moved a step closer, almost a century after their deaths that marked the beginning of a vicious killing spree in West Cork.

The new interim garda commissioner’s claims that Sergeant Maurice McCabe is protected from harassment were contradicted by ex-garda whistleblower John Wilson in spectacular fashion yesterday.