A garda had to drive an ambulance with an injured child to hospital last week because of a shortage of paramedic staff on duty.

Hundreds of workers from troubled aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics today staged a protest march through central Dublin over concerns about pension and redundancy payments.

Gardaí have arrested two people in relation to the fatal shooting of a Nigerian teenager in Dunboyne, Co Meath.

Gardaí are tonight hunting two gunmen who murdered a Nigerian teenager in a quiet Irish village.

A GANG of schoolchildren armed with metal bars travelled from Dublin to Meath by bus to attack a junior certificate student because of a tiff over a girlfriend, it has emerged.