MORE than 700 gardaí have retired from the force this year and the number could swell further before the budget next month.

THE gardaí are haemorrhaging key staff, with many senior officers quitting the force to avoid being hit with a threatened tax on retirement lump sums as well as the pension levy.

GARDAÍ were bracing for revenge attacks last night after a bloody feud claimed two more lives.

Gardaí have released a photograph of the escaped prisoner they are hunting after he escaped from custody on Sunday.

A BELGIAN taxi driver admitted yesterday he has driven hundreds of illegal immigrants from the centre of Brussels to containers bound for Britain over the past few years.