The lack of 24-hour garda stations in counties targeted by ATM robberies is concerning to senior officers.

It may take a while to get to Harvey’s Point, but once ensconced, you won’t want to leave, says Elaine Loughlin.

One in five superintendents are being investigated by the garda ombudsman (GSOC), with many of the inquiries taking up to five years to complete.

Frontline Garda bosses believe that Brexit will result in a “massive draw” on resources back to the border, with major implications for Garda divisions and national units.

Sgt Maurice McCabe said the Garda culture makes it “extremely hard to speak out” and said that those who do are “certainly isolated and alone”.

The Disclosures Tribunal, it would appear, may have been established because of a clerical error.

Former Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan did not give instructions to her legal team in relation to the dealings of whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe with senior officers also represented by her legal team, because she did not have direct factual knowledge of the issues, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

There was another apology for Maurice McCabe yesterday for another misunderstanding, another error which cast him in a nefarious light.

Former commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan may be hauled back to the Disclosure Tribunal to answer questions about an unseen Garda document which described Sergeant Maurice McCabe as paranoid.

Nóirín O’Sullivan was out through the gap yesterday afternoon, her three days of evidence at the Disclosures Tribunal completed, writes Michael Clifford.

Did the commissioner of An Garda Síochána wrongly attempt to discredit a Garda whistleblower behind the closed doors of a statutory inquiry?

A garda witness has told the Charleton Tribunal that former Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan did not contribute to a document which outlined legal instructions to challenge whistleblower Maurice McCabe's motivation.

The Disclosures Tribunal is examining attempts to cast aspersions on Sgt McCabe’s motives, writes Michael Clifford

Was there an attempt to smear Sgt Maurice McCabe behind the closed doors of a statutory inquiry? That matter forms the basis of the current module of the Disclosures Tribunal at Dublin Castle.

The President of the Association of Garda Superintendents has said no garda who falsified breath tests "benefited any way financially or fed into any promotion prospects for them".

SOMETIMES at the Charleton Tribunal, there is a surreal feel to what is emerging. This was the case yesterday when details of hopeless incompetence in the child and family agency Tusla were heard in relation to a disturbing garda meeting on what to do about Maurice McCabe.

A garda superintendent has denied ignoring a 2013 letter by a social worker regarding sexual assault allegations against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe in order to “trigger an earthquake in the HSE”.

There was another issue aired at the Charleton Tribunal yesterday, and once again it did not fall in favour of Sgt Maurice McCabe.

At times during her evidence to the Disclosures Tribunal yesterday, the woman known as Ms D was emotional.

If elements in the gardaí were intent on smearing Sgt Maurice McCabe they had something to use as the basis for attacking his character, writes Michael Clifford.

Senior officers do not believe frontline gardaí deliberately falsified breath test numbers and that the problem stemmed from members being overworked, together with a lack of proper equipment and training.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has said the Government will seek to answer the six questions raised by Maurice and Lorraine McCabe as soon as possible.

The Garda Ombudsman is to investigate claims two senior officers misrepresented a 2008 meeting with whistle-blower Maurice McCabe to the O’Higgins commission by alleging he was motivated by malice.

Danny O’Carroll A.K.A. (Buster Brady) has raised a staggering €50,000 for the victims of the Buncrana Pier Tragedy and Pieta House after an incredible fundraising night in Co Donegal.

Going along with an attempt to impugn Garda Maurice McCabe’s character raises fundamental questions about the Commissioner’s attitude to him and his concerns, writes Michael Clifford.

The O’Higgins report says any disciplinary proceedings against gardaí, which might conceivably arise out of his investigation, ‘would not be helpful’, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Senior gardaí have said that an additional 200 to 300 garda recruits are needed every year on top of the commitment to take on 600 officers annually.

Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said the force has been “devastated” by government austerity measures and was “20 years behind” in many areas, particularly in technology.

Fast horses and fashionable women are a hit at this year Galway races.

The insurers will tot up the cost of the damage inflicted by yesterday’s storm but there will be no pay-out to ease the heartbreak the weather has wreaked on Clonmel RFC.

Model Rozanna Purcell was crowned the first winner of Celebrity Come Dine With Me Ireland earlier this year. “I love cooking and I knew I’d produced an excellent meal,” says the 21-year-old, who was up against Brian Kennedy, Paul Martin, Noel Cunningham and George McMahon.

SATURDAY

Gardaí have named the three people killed in a road crash in Co Monaghan last night.

A pregnant woman, her unborn baby and two men were killed in an horrific multi-vehicle car crash that has left a community stunned.

IRELAND is one of the most competitive locations for research and development (R&D) investment in the world, according to a report.

TWO great old warriors waged a titanic struggle in yesterday's Munster final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Muskerry before Dermot Morris carried the day for Limerick Golf Club by getting home at the third extra hole against Tom Cleary of Cork Golf Club.

TWO men were on the run last night after they escaped from a prison van during an “audacious” armed breakout which left one security guard with a gunshot wound to the leg.