Policing commission chairwoman Kathleen O’Toole has ruled herself out of consideration for the garda commissioner job.

Policing commission chairwoman Kathleen O’Toole has ruled herself out of consideration for the garda commissioner job.

Going abroad to solve Ireland’s policing problems is easier said than done.

Going abroad to solve Ireland’s policing problems is easier said than done, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

The sooner we stop talking palaver about the decent men and women in the force the better. writes Gerard Howlin.

In the end, Noirin O’Sullivan was incapable of escaping the culture that moulded her, writes Michael Clifford.

Vital cross-border sharing of policing expertise is going to become extremely difficult post-Brexit, former PSNI chief Judith Gillespie has warned.

IF SEÁN Ó Liatháin has taken a lifetime to get around to recording his debut CD, he has ample excuse, writes Pet O’Connell.

Fine Gael is to seek the help of Fianna Fáil in the coming days to stop Sinn Féin’s campaign to force the resignation of Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan.

Recent events would make you think the interests of Nóirín O’Sullivan are the same as those of An Garda Síochána. It is crucial we make it clear that they’re not, writes Michael Clifford.

Fianna Fáil have backed Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan amid fresh allegations she led a campaign to undermine garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

An ancient Gaelic festival is the perfect antidote to the frenzy and commercialism of other feast days, writes Nuala Woulfe.

The Garda Commissioner has insisted she knew nothing about an alleged smear campaign targeting a whistleblower in the force.

I’ve always been excited by musical sounds. My earliest memory is playing a little toy piano with the black keys painted on.

Under-fire Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has insisted that she was “not privy to, nor did she approve of any action”, designed to target any whistleblowers in the force.

A mother who was “left with nothing” after losing her son and friend in a house fire earlier this year has moved into a new home.

The mother of Kenneth Relihan, who died in a house fire in Macroom last week, has been left with “nothing” following the tragedy, her daughter said yesterday.

One of the more prominent features on the front of Nóirín McAuliffe’s house in Macroom is a satellite dish, prompting thoughts about what she might have been watching on Sunday night.

Relations between middle-ranking gardaí and Noirín O’Sullivan have chilled as she prepares to give her first speech as Garda Commissioner to an association annual conference later today.

Barbara Scully was 10 when her mother dragged her to Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a show that started a hilarious musical journey for the duo. Forty years later, they returned with Barbara’s teenage daughters

The final round of interviews for the next Garda commissioner began yesterday with interim police boss Noirin O’Sullivan the first among three candidates being grilled by an expert panel.

The authority of the acting Garda commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan has been undermined by fresh allegations about penalty points system abuse, the opposition has claimed.

The Oireachtas Committee on Justice is to ask the acting Garda Commissioner, Noirín O’Sullivan, if there is a need to set up a dedicated garda unit to patrol the country’s trains.

Relations between those close to former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan and the acting police boss Nóirín O’Sullivan deteriorated in the run-up to Mr Callinan’s retirement function last night.

Acting Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan has defended plans to set up a Garda authority and said it will add additional trust between the public and the force.

Acting Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has said an internal survey of frontline gardaí shows they were "hurting" from the succession of controversies battering the force.

Watching the ‘performance’ of both Acting Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and Secretary General, Department of Justice, Brian Purcell, I have serious concerns as to the suitability of both incumbents for their posts.

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.

A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother at their Mayo home while he was high on drugs.

Angry locals have demanded that Galway County Council act immediately to provide a footpath and public lighting at the spot where a teenage girl lost her life.

It’s a time for seeing family, friends and loved ones again. Claire Droney and Pol Ó Conghaile catch a few pre-Christmas flights at Cork and Dublin airports.

t’s a time for seeing family, friends and loved ones again. Claire Droney and Pol Ó Conghaile catch a few pre-Christmas flights at Cork and Dublin airports.

When Mum said she had bought her plot and organised the service,I was happy everything would be just as she wanted, says Barbara Scully

Before she died, 22 year old Emma Dowling set up a cancer charity. Her parents are keeping her dream alive, writes Claire Droney

The US coastguard has called off its search for two Cork men blown from their racing yacht by waves off the California coast, saying the “window of survivability had passed”.

The DPP has interrupted a civil trial in which an elderly man is being sued after his car swerved into another vehicle, resulting in spinal injuries to a child.

An elderly man whose car crossed on to the wrong side of the road and in collision with another vehicle, resulting in the death of his wife and a child suffering severe spinal injuries, has claimed he is not liable for the accident because a medical ailment caused him to lose control of his car.

THE parents of a young Donegal girl who suffered horrific spinal injuries in a fatal car crash three years ago have begun fundraising efforts to support clinical trials for the use of umbilical cord stem cells in chronic spinal cord injury.

THE driver of the car in which four students were killed on the Galway-Mayo border on Tuesday evening was fighting for her life last night.

Two best friends who played GAA football together were among four young women killed in a tragic car crash after a day out shopping, it emerged tonight.

CELEBRATION is the last thing on the minds of Cork’s footballers, but the panel put the heartbreak of last week’s All-Ireland final defeat to Kerry behind them at the weekend as they gathered for the love-match of goalie Alan Quirke to his long-time girlfriend Christina O’Leary.